Margaret Wall-Romana
Contact Information
contact name: Margaret Wall-Romana
email: m.wallromana@gmail.com
Experience
MFA The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
BA University of California, Davis
Professional Experience
1997 - 2002
Art Department Faculty, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
Exhibitions/Performance History
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
"Tangle and Sensation", George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, March 31 - May 4
2011
"Taking Time" solo exhibition, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, ND
September 17 - October 16, 2011
Margaret Wall-Romana, "Painting Before and After Words"
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program
January 20-April 3, 2011
2007 "The Spaces" Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 "Distillations" Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Up Against Gravity" Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Decompositions" Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Margaret Wall-Romana, Recent Work"
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2-PERSON/GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Art Fairs pre-2011 courtesy Bucheon Gallery, SF)
2011 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FLA, courtesy George Billis Gallery
2010 "Movement-Process-Reflection", Paintings by Jil Evans and Margaret Wall-Romana, Bethel University, Johnson Gallery St. Paul, MN
September-November 2010
2009
ARTmn 2009 "The Precious Object"
Hennepin County Central Library, Cargill Gallery, Sept 18, 2009 - Jan 3, 2010
2008
"Landscape, Nature & Space"
Bucheon Gallery, SF February 22 -March 22
2007
Aqua Art Miami
2003
Scope LA
The Affordable Art Fair, NYC
2002
Art Chicago
The Affordable Art Fair, NYC
San Francisco Int'l Art Expo
2001
Fast Forward Miami
1999
Die Erste Internationale Hotel-Kunstmesse, Vienna
The Art Exchange, NYC
1993
"Sacred Spaces: Women and the Land"
Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FLA
"Margaret Wall-Romana/Laurel Engel
Los Medanos Community College, Pittsburg, CA
1992
Rodeo: A Contra Costa Studio Community (catalogue)
Reginal Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Margaret Wall-Romana/Grace Munakata
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Collections
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud MN
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks ND
Galleries
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
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Represented by Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, from 1995 until their close in 2009
Publications
2011
"Ambushed by Beauty" by Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 24, 2011 http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/art/116851683.html
Interview at Local Artist Interviews, a website that creates exposure and opportunities for Minnesota artists and organizations through interviews and networking - March 14, 2011
http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2011/03/margaret-wall-romana-painter.html
Art Beat // "Nature Documentaries" by Dylan Thomas, SouthWestJournal
http://www.swjournal.com/index.php?&story=16597&page=152&category=64
"Landscapes Real and Imagined" by Marianne Combs, State of the Arts, Minnesota Public Radio
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2011/02/landscapes-real-and-imagined.shtml
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2007
"Works that have you wonder as you wander", review of "The Spaces" exhibition by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 19, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/19/DDG3CPT1T01.DTL
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The Highlights July 2007 http://thehighlights.org/?p=20 (scroll down until you see an image)
"...What complicates and makes the work more interesting is that
Wall-Romana uses the nature of paint itself to not only suggest beauty,
vulnerability and infinite space, but also to negate those ideas..." --Jacqueline Cooper, "Margaret Wall-Romana at Bucheon Gallery"
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2004
"...Don't be taken in by the soft light and pastels: there's gloppy vegetable matter stuck between the petunias..."--http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco May 2004
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"Wall-Romana at Bucheon", review of "Distillations" exhibition by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 19 2004
(The article opens with an image of my painting - for accompanying text, please scroll half-way down to "Wall-Romana at Bucheon".)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/29/DDGFV6T0551.DTL_
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2002
Five Finger Review, Issue 20
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Active Place:
Minneapolis
Minnesota County:
Hennepin
Artist Information
Roles
Painter