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Barbara Romain

Barbara Romain's Artwork


Biography
Barbara Romain is a visual, performing and teaching artist who earned a BFA degree from the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) and an MFA degree from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.  Her award-winning paintings are widely exhibited and she is the recipient of Artist in Residence awards from the City of Los Angeles Department of cultural Affairs and the California Arts Council, as well as a Teaching Artist Fellowship from VSA Arts in Washington, D.C. Diagnosed with a retinal degenerative disease in 1984, she is legally blind.    

Current and recent exhibits include:  INSIGHTS, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery at City Hall, EMERGING ARTISTS, Downtown Art Center Gallery, Los Angeles, SPACE & NEBULA, Echo Curio Gallery, Los Angeles, ART ABILITY, Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Center,  SPEAKING VOLUMES/TRANSFORMING HATE, touring Montana from the Holter Museum in Helena, MT, DERIVATIVE COMPOSITIONS, at the Terrace Gallery of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and PASSIONATE FOCUS, ChageWest, Chicago, IL.

Barbara currently teaches in the Visual Arts Department of Columbia College Hollywood a film school in Tarzana, California. 

Artist Statement
“I had been a painter for several years when I was diagnosed with a retinal degenerative disease IN 1984, and became legally blind.  I questioned my ability to continue painting, and slowly transformed my thinking and techniques to incorporate my physical limitations as an integral part of my work.

My color palette has grown stronger as my sight diminishes. In many of my large paintings I use text as a “weaving of words, creating a complex image where the viewer is invited to create his/her own poetry.     

I am now inspired less by what I see and more by what I hear, remember and imagine.”

View more of Barbara's work on her website, http://www.barbararomain.com