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The works- oil paintings on board, sculptures, and hybrids- are a self-aware meditation on “alienation”. Recent paintings, in Bazanova’s typical gray and earthen hues, have introduced figures from her mother’s conversations: the Grays, the Reptilians, the builder-gods that Erich van Daniken and others say brought civilization to ancient man like Prometheus.

In recent work that draws inspiration from the 1970s, the Golden Age of alien conspiracies, she depicts classic subjects such as Stonehenge and Easter Island under construction. One recent work Usurpation, 2024 shows the US Capitol being …