Rosina Lee

Rosina Lee (formerly Axelia Rose) (b. 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Southern Idaho. Working primarily in oil and acrylic painting alongside ceramics, ink, and hand-painted functional art objects, her practice is rooted in process-led abstraction, meditative flow states, and a sustained engagement with the imagery of the threshold between waking and sleep.

Much of Rosina’s work begins in close observation of the natural world—its colors, rhythms, and quiet details—which is then transformed through hypnagogic visions, the imagery that surfaces at the threshold of consciousness, and shaped by a conviction that what we choose to attend to reshapes how we experience reality. Her paintings unfold through a meditative dialogue with color, mark, and open space: a process in which the materials guide the hand as much as the hand directs the materials. The color palettes of her current work are drawn from the skies, snow, and vegetation of the Southern Idaho landscape, but they serve interior purposes—rendering dream states, emotional cycles, and moments of quiet revelation that resist literal depiction. This interplay between inner vision and material process has been a constant across her career, from early digital series including Hypnagogia and Celestial Oneiromancy (both 2022) through recent physical paintings such as Red Light Blue Light (2024). A formative trip to Japan deepened her engagement with the handmade book as an art form: travel journaling in a hand-bound notebook she had made led to her current practice of Coptic-stitched artist’s books with original painted covers, extending her work into functional objects that carry the same intentions as her paintings.

Rosina has exhibited internationally in both physical and digital contexts. In 2024, she completed a residency with DAM Zine, resulting in Inputs in Theta—a work exploring the cyclical exchange of ideas between human and machine consciousness—exhibited at JRNY Gallery in Las Vegas. Her work has been shown at NFT NYC (The Terrace Gallery, New York), Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, the Subjective Art Festival at Lume Studios in New York, and Art and Soul of the Magic Valley in Jerome, Idaho. She is a recipient of the Hug .ART Visionary Grant, and her work is held in the Medici Emerging Artist Collection and private collections internationally.