Meghan DeRoma

Country where you live:

United States

City where you live:

Venice

Website:

http://mderoma.art

Instagram:

http://www.instagram.com/mderoma.art

Linkedin:

http://www.linkedin/meghanderoma

Statement :

I work in mixed media collage, found papers, artifacts, personal ephemera, paint, fabric, and archetype. My pattern- and process-driven practice involves gathering color, paper fragments, threads, and images on the path of the constant unfolding of being a woman. I explore the stories of the past, of personal and collective memory, of the land, biology, and myth. Through the process of the deconstruction of these found fragments and reconstruction, archetypal symbols emerge.

Who we are in any given moment lays the foundation from which we create. My inner journey is built on the vestiges of a childhood spent camping across the US, magnetized by animals, plants and insects, and also coerced catholicism. These were the seeds of spirituality, ecocentrism and ontology in my practice today. I am inspired by the intricacy and nuance of human relationships—our relationship to Self, to “other,” women’s relationship with nature, and as an animal species, our inherent wildness.

No Fun Once the Mouse is Dead

Collage of personal childhood ephemera found paper, fabric, gouache, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas

Sympathetic Magic

Collage of personal childhood ephemera found paper, fabric, gouache, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas

Bio:

Meghan DeRoma (b. 1978, Chicago, IL, US,) is a (re)emerging visual artist in Los Angeles, CA, working in collage and sculpture. DeRoma received her BFA: Sculpture/Minor: Psychology, from Miami University, OH in 2000. Using found paper, gouache, acrylic, fabric, and other found materials, DeRoma explores our relationship to Self and to Nature, and our inherent wildness. Her deep interest in and experience with the nature of being is expressed through the meditative aspects of her process-driven work. Returning to her art practice after years spent exploring how capitalism functions first hand, and raising kids, DeRoma keeps the fine point of the inner journey as it relates to the collective as a lighthouse. Weaving research in archetype and mythology and wanderings in the wilderness into the impetus for her work, she aims to provoke curiosity in our respective roots and our relationship with other than human sentient beings into her work.

DeRoma’s work has been shown at Tryst and Nomad II, 2023, with the Torrance Art Museum, Dorado 806 Projects, where she is also a founder and curator, the Venice Art Walk Auction (current, and 2023), the Women United Art Magazine (cover artist, Women Artist Prize finalist), site: Brooklyn, The Other Art Fair, Dominique Gallery, bG Gallery, CHTV curated by Yiwei Lu, the Society of Illustrators Museum and Sip Art Space with the Oceanside Museum of Art.