| PRESS
RELEASE
MARCH
20-APRIL 12, 2003
LIBRADO
ROMERO
NEW
WORKS
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY |
MARCH 20, 2003 | 6 -
8PM
New York, NY – Gallery@49
is pleased to present Librado Romero’s
third solo exhibition at the gallery, opening
on March 20, 2003. The show, which includes
a selection of recent mixed media paintings,
works on paper and photographs will be on view
through April 12, 2003.
Finding and appropriating shapes and fragments
from nature, from the residue and waste of human
activity, and from his own rich imagination
where the images are stored, revised and constantly
reassembled, Librado Romero is a scavenger of
images. As a photographer he keeps looking for
the fruitful accident, capturing a rare vision
in something as common as a discarded tissue
on the sidewalk. As Michael Kaufman has noted,
Romero’s images “evoke the work
of Pollock, Rauschenberg and Rothko. Some of
them may also recall graffiti art… but
the similarity is superfcial because, unlike
graffiti art, Mr. Romero’s discoveries
reveal nothing of the intent, ego or pridefulness
of their creators” (The
New York Times,1999).
Similarly as a painter, Romero searches subconsciously
through a lifetime of patterns, tones, totems
and dream scenes that he began accumulating
as a boy in the American southwest and added
to as he worked and traveled through much of
the world. Constantly exploiting his growing
collection of found and elaborated images he
has recently used them to produce a number of
large and energetic mixed media paintings that
reveal the incantational power of ancient cave
drawings, where the memory of experience fuses
with the hopes of desire.
Librado
Romero’s exhibition will be on view at
Gallery@49 from March 20 through April 12, 2003.
A reception for the artist will be held Thursday,
March 20 from 6 to 8 pm. Gallery@49, is located
at 322 West 49th Street (between 8th and 9th
Ave), and can be reached by subway E, C to 50th
St. or N, R to 49th St. Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
12 noon - 6 pm and by appointment. For additional
information or visual material please call (212)
767-0855.
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