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Virginia Maria Romero’s
artwork is in national and international private and museum
collections, as well as featured in books, film, periodicals,
and numerous group and solo exhibits.
A biographical sketch, recognizing Romero as an important
New Mexico artist is included on the New Mexico Office of the
State Historian website:
www.newmexicohistory.org
- under biographies occupations, & women.
Romero
is an award winning artist whose works reflect original
contemporary designs that express the distinctive voice of their
creator. The style,
color and compositions of her acrylics as well as her retablos
continue to exhibit her uniqueness and creative quality.
Romero’s works
consisting of contemporary religious retablos inspired by the
culture of New Mexico and her Polish/Irish heritage are just as
strongly driven by her own experiences, setting her works apart
from others of that genre.
Romero’s
retablos altars, and crosses are done using
carved and/or adzed pine panels, homemade gesso, water-soluble
pigment hand collected ground pigments as available including;
ochre, cochineal, black walnut, and sealed with homemade piñon
sap varnish, & wax. “Romero
has taken an ancient art form and redefined it, reinvented it,
and made it her own.” “Virginia
Maria Romero’s art speaks a language unlike any other…it is
a language of the heart, of the soul, of life...
Romero’s
artwork has been selected for collections that include:
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM; El Museo Cultural de Santa
Fe, Santa Fe, NM; New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Las
Cruces, NM; Pope Benedict XVI, and Cardinal Levada, Vatican
City, Rome; Basilica of San Albino, Mesilla, NM; San Miguel
Mission, Santa Fe, NM;
Maria Stein Heritage Museum/National Marian Shrine of the
Holy Relics, Maria Stein, OH;
Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine and Parish, Mesilla Park,
NM; Holy Cross
Retreat Las Cruces, NM;
St. Francis Jerome Church, Center, CO;
The Friars of the Sick Poor of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
CA; Santa Francesca
Romana, Rome;
Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Italy;
Monte Olivito Maggiore; Virgin Galactic; New Mexico
Centennial Commemorative artist, Santa Fe, NM.
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