Alexa Bruckback was born in Oakland, California in 2014. She began creating acrylic abstract paintings at a young age, often alongside her mother, artist and poet Rose Roque. Her early work was also encouraged by her art teacher, Lucy Ames.

Alexa’s collaboration with her mother, We’re In This Together, was exhibited at SF Women Artists, and her art contest entry, The Birth of a Star, received recognition from NASA. Her paintings have found homes with collectors in the United States, Canada, Austria, and Australia.

Although Alexa has since stepped away from painting, creativity continues to be an important part of her life. She is now beginning her journey in clay pottery, exploring a new medium through which she can shape her ideas by hand.

Alexa is also beginning to find her voice in poetry. Three of her poems will be featured in her mother’s poetry collection, What I Carried Into Bloom, scheduled for publication in December 2026.

Her earlier paintings remain here as a record of where her creative journey began. As she grows, so does the way she creates—from paint, to poetry, to clay, with each medium becoming another chapter in an artistic life still unfolding.