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For more information, contact peter@RomeroArt.com BACKGROUND Peter Alexander Romero studied Art and Humanities at the University Autonoma of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and again at the University of Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Abandoning his former studies on arrival in the U.S., Peter immersed himself in the performing arts, choosing ballet as a career. After several years with various companies, Peter sustained an injury during a performance with the Pittsburgh Ballet. That forced him to abandon his passion for performing dance on the stage, concentrating instead on passing on his knowledge and love of dance through teaching and choreography. Realizing that a part of his life was missing, he returned to his first love, Visual Arts. He is currently extending his experience in drawing and painting, all while satisfying his curiosity about sculpture and clay with the help and guidance from his art colleagues. As Peter says, "Ever since my fingers were first touched by clay, I’ve never stopped working and creating sculptures. My love for female and male busts is evident in my work." Currently, Peter is creating figures with very elongated necks as a way to illustrate the separateness of the terrestrial part of the body from the more spiritual part of the body -- the head. The textures he’s discovering in clay are also finding their way into his paintings, where he is also using eclectic colors and themes.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dance and movement inform my sculpture and painting. An emotion, a look, a mood – all inspire. Inner joy and inner turmoil conspire with one another, producing images deep from the soul. Often a preconceived idea is abandoned in the moment of artistic creation or revision. Or a moment outside the city -- in the woods, at the mountains or on the shore – will reshape my thinking. I am often driven by the colors and shapes nature brings me.
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