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"Fancy Shawl Dance" by Mateo Romero
$2,600
Mixed Media on Canvas
20" x 20"
Artwork Description:
Bring the energy of the powwow arena into your space with Fancy Shawl Dancer, an original acrylic painting by Cochiti Pueblo artist Mateo Romero. This painting is celebrated nationally as part of a USPS commissioned “Pow Wow” stamp series. Known for his bold, expressionistic style, Romero captures the grace, movement, and cultural pride of a Fancy Shawl dancer mid-spin. The dancer, rendered in dynamic earth tones and vibrant neons, radiates power and femininity as she moves across a vivid, textured background of magentas, purples, and electric blues.
Made by A Native Artist
Original Artwork
Ships From Santa Fe, NM
ABOUT THE ARTIST
MATEO ROMERO
Contemporary painter Mateo Romero was born and raised in Berkeley, California. Although his cultural background is an urban one, through his father Santiago Romero and his connection to their Southern Keresan Cochiti people, this experience includes much of the Rio Grande Pueblo world as well. Mateo attended Dartmouth College and studied with acclaimed artists Ben Frank Moss and Varujan Boghosian.
He received an MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. Mateo is an award-winning artist who has exhibited internationally in Canada and in the United States. He is currently a Dubin Fellow in painting at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, NM, and paints in his studio in Santa Fe and lives in Pojoaque Pueblo with his wife, Melissa, and their children Erik, Povi, and Rain.