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Mateo Romero
Cochiti Pueblo |
For more information on the work of Mateo Romero, please contact us at 800.394.1843 or e-mail us at: kgs@kinggalleries.com
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"Buffalo
Dancers - Binary Composition"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00
"Deer
Dancer at Daybreak"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00
"Blue
Sky Buffalo Dancers"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6500.00
"Feast
Day Dancers - Female"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6500.00
"Feast
Day - Male Dancers"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00
"Butterfly
Dancers"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
36"x 48"
$4300.00
"Butterfly
Dancer - Feast Day"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
30" x 40"
$3000.00 - SOLD
"Hero
Twins"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00 - SOLD
"Pueblo
Deer Dancer"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00 - SOLD
"Deer
Dancers"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
36"x 48"
$4300.00 - SOLD
"Deer
Dancers - Pueblo Feast Day"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00 - SOLD
"Deer
Dancers - Binary Composition"
Oil, Mixed Media on Board
40" x 60"
$6000.00 - SOLD
Artist Statement & Biography:
"At the turn of the millennium, I remain a Pueblo Luddite. I am infatuated with
fountain pens, analog clocks, sable brushes, oil paint, and clay and minerals
from the ground. I inherently distrust beauracracies (both Indian and non),
corporations, electronic media, lawyers, governments, sunbelts, gunbelts, and
the IRS. About the only common ground I find with my colleagues is Tribal
government (which also seems shifty at times), a necessary evil where social
interaction and positive change can
occur.
I have always felt driven to make art, at an early age by my artist’s family around me, later by my narcissistic need to say something to whomever listens, and finally as a lifelong vocation and commitment to changing the world. I feel that I have been chosen by the work.
For me, the act of making art is like discovering the innocence of childhood again framed within adulthood. The act of losing oneself completely, becoming immersed in the medium and the mark making process is as old as time itself, unselfconscious, like marks scratched in the overhang of the canyon walls. From these periods where I close the studio door and lose myself come my most productive works.
I have been seduced by muscular, sensual painting. I am married to gesture, movement, colors that breathe, impasto palette knife work, thin washes of carefully drawn in paint. These formal qualities of easel painting have remained signature elements of my work, and I will continue to be faithful to them. They have contained a philosophical framework of how I view the world around me.
For me, the figurative statement has the ability to express feeling, need, hope, rage, love, loss, and human triumph. It also contains the promise of a future, held within the coding of a painting episode.
A touch of the past, a hint of the future, some antiquated tools and methodologies, and viola!, the molotov cocktail of the electronic age emerges. A thing (art), devoid of economic concern (hopefully), produced by someone in control of and connected to the means of production, meaningful to the individual and community it exists in, value proof positive in its ability to reach people and change their lives.
I am always looking. Through catalogues, Museum shows galleries, newspapers, and other artist’s studios. I am looking for art that is central, forceful, honest. Things that are true about life, elements of a larger human condition, to view, absorb, ingest, and remake as artwork. As I believe in myself, and my need to do this, I also believe in a reconstructive agenda for art and that ultimately things can get better."
Education:
Mateo attended Dartmouth College and studied with acclaimed artists Ben Frank Moss and Varujan Boghosian. He received his MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. Mateo was also granted an honorary AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts where he was a painting instructor.
Awards:
He has won numerous awards at events such as Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Museum Indian Market. He won first place ribbons in lithography at the 1994 Santa Fe Indian Market, Best of Class 3 (painting), Best of Division (drawing), and First Place (printmaking), at the 1991 Indian Market.
Dubin Fellowship:
Mateo is a 2002 Dubin Fellow in painting at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, NM.
The Ron and Susan Dubin Native American Artist Fellowship has been established to support Native American artists at the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research. The mission of the Dubin Fellowship is to encourage traditional Native American arts through support of artists of high merit. The program is designed to perpetuate the traditional arts by providing financial support to artists, and by assisting them with their study of the School's collections in order to inspire their work. The program seeks to stimulate Southwestern Native American arts by awarding summer fellowships to individuals who excel primarily in the visual arts which relate to the School's collecting emphasis
"Mateo describes his family art history by stating, "My earliest memories are of watching my father paint and trying to copy him. My father was a Dunn School 2-D type water-colorist. Painters, potters, drafts-people, and designers have always surrounded me. My family tree has many remarkable and talented roots and branches. Considering how rich this soil is, I am surprised at how little I know about art and life."
Other Dubin Fellows include: Nora Naranjo Morse (2000), Lonnie Vigil (1994), Angie Reano Owen (1995), Bo Lomaquahu (1999) and Shawn Tafoya (1996).
Museums:
Museums that have collected his work include
-the Canadian Museum of Civilization,
-Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado
-Poeh Cultural Center in Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico
-Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico
-Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico
-Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence, Kansas
-Missouri Historical Society in Forest Park, Missouri
-Peabody Essex Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts
-School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
For more information on the work of Mateo Romero, please contact us at
800.394.1843
or e-mail us at: kgs@kinggalleries.com