Alexandra Grant used the launch of her new LOVEwine brand in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 28, to talk about the unusually careful way she and Keanu Reeves handle both their relationship and their work. The 53-year-old artist described a partnership built on mutual respect, private space and a shared belief that creative projects need room to stand on their own.
That is why people are paying attention now. Grant and Reeves, 61, have been romantically linked since 2019, but her latest remarks came in public, at a branded event tied to her own art practice. She said Reeves is appreciative and cautious with feedback, and that she returns the same care. “You want to always be respectful and leave the other person to bake their cake,” she said.
Grant said the two make room for each other’s process. They can talk through any problem or creative idea for as long as needed, she said, but they also respect an individual need to work quietly or on another collaboration. “So I’d say the key to it is the mutual respect,” she said, adding that they also treat their shared projects as play. “Every project has its own autonomy, its own team, it has its own sort of rules, and it has a beginning, middle and end.”
The comments carried extra weight because Grant was speaking from inside her own launch, not at a separate interview. LOVEwine is a collaboration between grantLOVE and California’s J Vineyards and Winery, extending a practice that has already taken her work from galleries in Los Angeles to New York City and museums in East Lansing, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. That mix of art and commerce is now part of the same public story she is telling about her life.
And there was a small contradiction in the way she framed it. Grant said the relationship depends on privacy, yet she also opened up about it onstage, where the subject naturally drew attention. She even folded in the couple’s professional identities, saying, “I’ve lived with John Wick, I’ve lived with Neo,” a nod to the characters Reeves is best known for playing.
Grant traced her own connection to wine back to a summer in Paris between seventh and eighth grade, when her mother, an American diplomat stationed in France, brought her along and they lived in a tiny French hotel room. “And I am the only child of a single mom,” she said. That memory now sits behind LOVEwine, but the bigger unanswered question is practical: how the brand will be sold and distributed after the launch event. For now, Grant has made the first public statement around it, and she has done it while insisting that the private parts of the relationship still matter most.
