As well as addressing environmental issues Rockman is interested in the discovery of previously extinct and hidden animals as well as ones potentially created through environmental disasters and science labs. He spends as much time in the studio as does in places like Guyana and Tasmania. He recently participated in an Australian expedition with Margaret Mittlebach and Michael Crewdson to track the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which was last reported in Australia in 1936. The expedition was chronicled in the book Carnivorous Nights: On The Trail of Tasmanian Tiger.

He is currently represented by Leo Koenig Gallery (NY) and has had solo exhibitions organized by the Camden Arts Centre, London; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington); and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. The Monacelli Press recently published the monograph “Alexis Rockman” with essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Crary, David Quammen and Loren Coleman. His work is in the following collections: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Los Angeles county Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art.