MARGARET WALL-ROMANA ---------------------- SELECTED WORK |

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS --------------------- scroll to last page for full resume

Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN ---- Oct 1 - Nov 21, 2010 (3-person)
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MAEP ---- Jan 20 - April 3, 2011
"Painting: Also a Verb" -------- Margaret Wall-Romana solo exhibit
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Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN ---- Oct - Nov 2011

"Painting Painting (with van der Weyden)"

58" x 75", oil on panel, 2009

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In this painting, I set out to dialogue with Rogier Van der Weyden's "Deposition From the Cross", a reproduction of which I keep my studio. I started by turning it upside down, a trick painters use to gain some distance from what is depicted and see more clearly what a painting is, and how it works. The Christ figure in this position took on the feeling of a sleeper who dreams of other spaces and times. It reminded me of the mythological figure of Persephone, who dreams of returning to earth from the underworld, another cosmological story of death and rebirth.