Campbell Romano

Steps to Eden Prairie (n.d.)
Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 36”

Steps to Eden Prairie is an acrylic painting that explores the tension between a memory and non-memory in relation to place. It is based on a family photograph that consists of myself and my sister on the steps of our first home, where the formidable significance of early childhood took place and informed later life. Through manipulated figural interpretations, the piece reflects on the idea of not remembering physical presences of truths.

Campbell Romano (she/her)

Campbell Romano is a New York based artist born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Currently working toward her BFA in Studio Art and minor in Art History, Campbell’s practice is centered around family traditions and structures through a reflective process of art-making. In creating two-dimensional pieces, her body of work explores and reflects upon the idea of childhood strangeness by manipulating familial archival photographs, videos, letters, and stories.

Artist Statement

Inspired by a network of rich archival material, my artwork aims to identify relationships under my family structure, and the family structure at large, through figural investigations. Resulting in paintings, drawings, and prints, my practice is heavily process-based. I begin with my family’s archival footage, photographs, letters, or family stories, which is followed by deep looking, note-taking, and a reflection upon my feelings of the moment or archive. I then analyze the intimate relationships on the two-dimensional substrate through a representational, yet manipulated, lens. The interventions I create within the works are done within the figural or background space in order to replicate my feelings upon a specific personal history or memory, and mainly investigate personal.