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Margaret Wall-Romana San Francisco Chronicle review May 2007 >> San Francisco Chronicle review May 2004 (scroll halfway down page to read review) Margaret Wall-Romana, who has moved from the Bay Area to Minneapolis
since her last show with us, deploys her signature visual syntax
of flora and fauna in various states of life and decomposition,
to reflect on personal shifts in time and location. Her hybrid
compositions have opened up to Midwest skies and the subtle palette
of winter light. Margaret combines her interests in abstraction
and the painterly surface with her love of Mannerist pictorial
space and the inventive landscapes of Northern painters such as
Patinir and Bruegel. Viewing these paintings is an experience meant to unfold gradually, as these vignettes of space stitched together reveal their connections. The initial perception of the picture as a whole becomes pleasurably unstable through improbable juxtapositions, scale shifts, and incongruous combinations. The act of viewing cycles back and forth between detail and overall structure, flatness and depth, figurative description and open-ended evocation. Margaret will be showing seven new large-scale oil paintings in this remarkably original body of work plumbing the spaces of perception and imagination.
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Bucheon
Gallery 389 Grove St. San Francisco CA
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