Exhibition Reviews/Press

2011

“Ambushed by Beauty” exhibition review of “Painting Before and After Words: Margaret Wall-Romana” at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, by Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 25, 2011.  http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/art/116851683.html

Margaret Wall-Romana interview at Local Artist Interviews, March 14, 2011 http://www.local-artist-interviews.com/2011/03/margaret-wall-romana-painter.html Local Artist Interviews is a website devoted to creating exposure and opportunities for Minnesota artists and organizations through interviews and networking.

Art Beat// “Nature Documentaries” by Dylan Thomas, SouthWestJournal - exhibition review of Margaret Wall-Romana & Peter Happel Christian at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts http://www.swjournal.com/index.php?&story=16597&page=152&category=64

“Landscapes Real and Imagined”  by Marianne Combs, State of the Arts, Minnesota Public Radio
Margaret Wall-Romana and Peter Happel Christian in the MAEP Galleries, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2011/02/landscapes-real-and-imagined.shtml

2010

“Painting Experience/Painting Perception: Jil Evans and Margaret Wall-Romana at Bethel”, essay by Christina Schmid for the Fall 2010 exhibition at Bethel University, St. Paul, MN http://www.quodlibetica.com/painting-experiencepainting-perception-jil-evans-and-margaret-wall-romana-at-bethel/

2007

“Works That Have You Wonder as You Wander” San Francisco Chronicle “The Spaces” exhibition review,  by Kenneth Baker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/19/DDG3CPT1T01.DTL

The Highlights, Jacqueline Cooper’s essay, “Margaret Wall-Romana at Bucheon Gallery” July 2007  http://thehighlights.org/?p=20 (please scroll down until you see an image)
“…What complicates and makes the work more interesting is that Wall-Romana uses the nature of paint itself to not only suggest beauty, vulnerability and infinite space, but also to negate those ideas…”

2004

flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco May 2004″…Don’t be taken in by the soft light and pastels: there’s gloppy vegetable matter stuck between the petunias…

Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, May 19 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/29/DDGFV6T0551.DTL (please scroll halfway down to “Wall-Romana at Bucheon)

2002
Five Finger Review, Issue 20