Gisela Romero: A Constant Goodbye

A Constant Goodbye: The Table Runner Stories of Gisela Romero

Presented by Art & History Museums-Maitland at A&H’s Maitland Art Center

OPENING RECEPTION

• Friday, January 26, 2024
• 6:30pm – 9:00pm

This exhibition features the art of Gisela Romero.

When artist Gisela emigrated from her native country of Venezuela five years ago, she chose to take a table runner with her as her remembrance of home. In this powerful exhibition, the visual symbolism of the table runner becomes the basis for the story of Romero’s experience, along with her meditations on the experiences of all who are compelled to leave their home countries. Romero, now an American citizen, has constructed a compelling narrative through written texts, textiles, drawings, and installation. This exhibition examines the human drama of immigration by embodying the wide range of raw emotions that accompany individuals when they decide to leave their country of origin to start a new life.

ARTIST PROFILE

Gisela Romero is an American Visual Artist born in Venezuela, living, and working in Orlando, Florida. Her focus is on Drawing in multiple formats and surfaces.

Romero has a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors from the California College of Arts, Oakland, CA. With over 30 years of experience, she has been communicating visual ideas through mixed media with a basis in Drawing as a medium for creating and teaching art.

Gisela Romero is committed to producing art that examines immigration and its consequences, especially the painful consequences of uprooting, she is currently working on a new body of work that reflects the issue of immigration. Metaphorically, a household object that serves as a surface such as a table runner and using fabrics bought in thrift stores that bear traces, shapes, patterns, and stains of other people, she imagines stories of immigrants using the table runners as an inspiration for short stories and in turn, the short stories as an inspiration for her drawings.