LMU’s Laband Art Gallery Presents “Sonia Romero: Taken Root” Sep. 23 through Dec. 9, 2023
Loyola Marymount University’s Laband Art Gallery this fall features Sonia Romero in a 20-plus-year survey exhibition honoring her enduring and boundary-pushing art practice that addresses issues of social, cultural, and political significance, and her important contributions to the Los Angeles public art landscape.
“Sonia Romero: Taken Root” includes more than 50 pieces spanning the early 2000s to the present, celebrating the artist’s signature visual language that expanded the possibilities of the mediums of printmaking, painting and papercutting. The show opens at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sep. 23, and runs through Dec. 9, 2023.
Romero’s artistry exemplifies the identity and lived experience of a “both/and” artist. Describing herself as “half Hispanic/Mexican American” and “half German/Russian American,” she has cultivated her own artistic path by synthesizing her Chicano heritage along with her Ashkenazi Jewish matrilineal line. An artist since childhood, Sonia Romero’s multi-ethnic upbringing has been formative to the development of her individual expression that transcends categories of belonging as well as art making.
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Image Credit: Sonia Romero, “Sacred Heart,” 2013, silkscreen on paper, 8 colors, edition of 36, 33 x 46 in., Courtesy of the artist and Laband Art Gallery.
Free Public Programming
Artist’s Reception: Saturday, Sept. 23 from 1 to 3 p.m., Laband Art Gallery
Artist’s Lecture: Tuesday, Sept. 27 at Noon, Burns Fine Art Center (Room 200, Printmaking Studio)
Artist and Curator Walkthrough: Oct 14, 2 to 3 p.m., Laband Art Gallery
