"Simón Bolivar" Janet Stein Romero

"Simón Bolivar" Janet Stein Romero. Watercolor and gouache painted on silk.  Part of a series painted in Caracas, Venezuela. Technique is based on East Indian watercolors on silk. 9" x 6".

It was written in New Mexico Artists at Work by Dana Newmann, ”her studio, which was initially a barn, is across the dirt road from their hundred-year-old adobe house.  The artist smiles as we enter and confides: ‘I have a gift for clutter.  I like having my collections all around me.  An ethnic junkie, that’s me.’ 

To cross the threshold into her working space is to enter another world.  This reality is multilayered, very personal, and slightly zany....her own work-small and large cut-out women figures, fantasy shrines, and haunting faces of women peeking out from her overlaid collages, monotypes, tiles, watercolors, and paintings.  

Occasionally, visitors are uncomfortable with the intensity-and quantity-of objects and imagery they encounter here; some may have been expecting a clean, crisp working area and, understandably, this space could be intimidating to them.  Other people, Stein Romero notes, may be entranced by the vividness, the variety of what they see, and ‘these visitors have to examine eery object and all of the art.’”

Stein Romero was born and raised in New York City.  She attended Brooklyn Museum School on a Philip Rosenthal Painting Scholarship and received her B.A. in Art at Connecticut College.  After moving to New Mexico in 1966, he completed her master’s degree in painting and drawing from the University of New Mexico and then began to teach in the Las Vegas public schools, New Mexico Highlands University and the United World College in Montezuma, NM.  Stein Romero has conducted numerous workshops such as Integrating Arts into the Curriculum, Monotype Printmaking, Reverse GlassPainting, Pathways to Creativity, and Artist Training for New Mexico Arts and the Museum of International Folk Art.  

Stein Romero and her husband sculptor and builder Nicasio Romero live in El Ancon, NM.  Jack Parsons photo credit for artist in studio.

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