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A former manufacturing laborer for 30 years. He brings the skills of the assembly line to his work. It's within this unskilled set of training that he approaches his process of art making.
What motivated him to start painting was a self reflecting quote while commuting to work. “ I would not make stupid Art”. Since then, the quest for self expression of the ordinary has been his challenge, to find beauty in the meaningless day to day life events. Such as the endless hours spent commuting to work, or the unnecessary late night conversations with an stranger at a bar.
He has called the Coachella Valley home since 2008. The beauty of the desert. The constant changing of the shadows in the mountains are the driving forces behind, his ideas. He says, he does not know for sure, what his work is about. There is never a plan or sketch It all starts with the materials at hand. A blank canvas and a can of paint is a good place to be.
Uriel Romero
Born: April 16, 1973
Birthplace: Colotlan Jalisco, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Lives and works in: Palm Springs, Ca. USA
Education + Awards
2000 – 2006 Studies at Chaffey College
Student photo show
2002, juror: Tim Wride. Honorable mention (novice)
2003, juror: Kim Yasuda. First place (portfolio)
2004, juror: Tom McGovern. Honorable mention (advance)
2005, jurors: Ardon Alger. Kathy Haddad. Robert Markovich
first place (journalism)
third place (digital)
honorable mention (digital)
collaboration (digital)
Selected Group Shows
2009 - Desert Art Center member
2010, Annual Palm Springs Art Commission show.
2011, Annual Palm Springs Art Commission show.
2011, ACE Artist Council. Palm Springs Art Museum (second place Awarded by Peter Frank, senior curator at the Riverside Art Museum)
2012, Annual Palm Springs Art Commission show.
2013, Annual Palm Springs Art Commission show.
2013, ACE Artist Council. Palm Springs Art Museum
2014, ACE Artist Council. Palm Springs Art Museum
2022 The Other Art Fair Los Angeles , March 31-April 4
2024 Featured Art Show DAC. The Persistence of Modernism, Feb 22-25
Upcoming
Desert Art Center 2024/25 annual season.