| Artist | Rachel Romano | Resides | United States |
| Website | rachelromanofineart.com | Medium | Oil |
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| Representing Gallery | Stanek Gallery Philadelphia, PA. USA Gallerie Lorien Frederiksberg, Denmark Beddington Fine Art Bargemon, France | Themes | Figurative Symbolism, Personal Myth Storytelling Allegory Surrealism Adversity Strength Sorrow Inner Demons Ideology Patriarchy Belonging Resilience |
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About the artist
Rachel Romano is a New Surrealism Figurative Painter. Her connection to art began at age 7 with sojourns with her father, a poet, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which planted the seeds of storytelling.
At the end of 2014, after many years of diverse careers in advertising, architecture, and landscape design. immersed herself into several of artist’s Tim Hawkesworth intensive workshops to connect with her inner art voice. These sessions broke her wide open to expressing herself as an artist and as a storyteller for adults. Following these workshops, in 2015, Rachel dove into her painting career, and became a surrealist figure painter. She works from memory, her imagination, her expression for a what she is trying to convey from feeling place, rather than an intellectually driven place.
Rachel’s work is collected internationally. You can find her painting 7 days a week in her studio in Coatesville, just outside of Philadelphia, PA.
Her work has been exhibited at Miami Art Week Art Basel, Santa Fe NM; Russell Sage College, Albany NY; Chelsea NY; Art Fair Santa Fe; Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington DE; Awaken Galley NC; Goggleworks Cohen Gallery East, Reading PA. Demuth Museum Lancaster PA; Festival d’Art Contemporain à Roquebrune sur Argen, Seillans, and Bargemon France.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Rachel’s inspiration is rooted in the adversity, strength, and resilience of herself and others. The stories of humanity, their personal myths, filling her creative well. Feeling/seeing the laughter, love, and sorrow in people keeps Rachel connected to the greater picture. It is in this connection that brings the richness of story out in her work. Her finished paintings have similarities to the painters of the Northern Renaissance. She loves working in oils because it has so much forgiveness, wiping out, adding new layers. Lots of vigor goes into the initial layout. Nothing is really worked out before she starts a painting, consequently Rachel’s paintings will go through many iterations before they are complete.
Recently Rachel was contemplating the vibrancy of her work, why so colorful? She came to the realization that it is her subconscious’ way to offset the darker elements that reside in her paintings. Softening the blow by bringing in the joy of color.
“Working in oils is perfect for me and ‘my thinking as I am doing process’; allowing me to wipe out, or radically change an image”. If a painting is not working, she will even cut it apart. It is important to be fearless. Rachel works on several paintings at a time, to give them breathing room, and not to become too precious, creating fluidity in the process. Consequently, her paintings will go through many iterations before they are complete.
It is her hope that when people view her paintings, they are taken “somewhere else” within their own story.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Press
Rachel Romano’s paintings have been featured in RED DOT & Stanek Gallery.
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Education
1996-1997, Foundation Year, Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Connecticut, United States
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Imaginaire,LM Studio Gallery Hyeres, France
2021
Alchemy, Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE. United States
Mind’s Eye, Cohen East Gallery/Goggleworks, Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
2019
Persona, La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Italy
Rachel Romano, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UNited States
2017
True North, Mala Galleria, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States
2016
The Art of Being, The Boyer Gallery, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Myths, Fairy Tales, Mysterious, 10Dence Gallery, Ghent Belgium
Get Out of Your Skull, 10Dence Gallery, Ghent Belgium, Amsterdam/Rijsenburg/Dordrecht, Netherlands
Serious Play, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. United States
Women Artists Ambassadors, Women’s Institute, Russell Sage College, Albany, New York, United States
International Women’s Day, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2023
Dialogue II, 2 person show, City Arts Salon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Multiplicities, Toni & Stuart B. Young Gallery, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, Delaware, United States
35th Anniversary Show, Blue Streak Gallery Wilmington, Delaware, United States
2022
Isn’t it Ironic?, Pictor Gallery, Chelsea, New York, United States
Life Magic, Gallerie Lorien, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Le Festival d’Art Contemporain, Roquebrun Sur Argens France
Le Festival d’Art Contemporain, Seillans, France
2020
20th Anniversary Exhibit, Beddington Fine Art, Bargemon, France
2019
Le Festival de Bargemon, Bargemon, France
Anniversary Show, Awaken Gallery Anniversary Show Mt. Holly, North Carolina, United States
2018
Imaginari, (curator), Oxford Art Alliance, Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States
2017
Totems and Allegories, J ed Williams Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Figures, Malvern Retreat House, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States
