NAME: e. Romo
BIRTH PLACE: Los Angeles,California
BIRTH DATE: 7.12.78
BIOGRAPHY
Edward Ochoa Romo
Edward Ochoa Romo was born in 1978 and raised in the northeaest sector of Los Angeles, California. His art training has evolved from working with fellow artists and actively engaging in the use of diverse painting techniques. Among the works that have given him recognition re "Grito," "Urban Metaphors", and "Colors of My Ancestors".
The person that interacts with Edward Romo will find his insights of the urban experience a provoking journey into the social, political, and psychological paths of the urban streets. He makes the point that as "an artist it is our duty to tell the story of our communities through diverse forms of artistic expression. His works take the viewer through a multitude of movements and spaces, and the journey defines lines, colors and a geography of urban issues, a geography of compassion, power,movement, as well as the pain of human condition. His diverse forms of art are alive, vibrant, and free of artistic constraints.
Edward Romo is versatile in using diverse mediums, but it is through his oil paintings that his works take on a vibrant search into the urban context. His paintings suggest the exploration and scrutiny of individual identity. Forms represent new communities arising arising from people crossing borders of different states and people of different nationalities struggling to find spaces of freedom. The images, shapes and colors probe a changing identity based on ethnically and linguistically diverse traditions, cultures and implicit aspects of social reality.
Edward Romo states that in his works "he likes to tell the story of the human condition" and "wanting to give his audience a slight hint of the social phenomena to initiate an internal dialogue" of interpretation and meaning. He strives to be flexible in his paintings in the telling of a story through images while acknowledging that purposeful mistakes create new horizons in the process of creating and recreating urban life. He recognizes that reflection is an interesting phenomena, a personal thing, an internal agreement of the things we see.
Edward Romo's approach to painting "is an intimate interaction between mind, heart, and movement." He tells that "his thoughts have the right to decide if, when, and where to create mental images of the complex urban context. Each painting is a conversation between mind and heart.
