"She joins the lineage of artists who expand the function of art beyond beauty, beyond representation, into the domain of philosophy and therapy, where the work becomes both object and interlocutor. Alisa Chernova’s paintings remind us that to see is to think, and to think is to live more fully. Her canvases, like mirrors cracked yet luminous, return us to ourselves with the insistence that we, too, must ask: Who am I?"