Meghan DeRoma (she/her) is a visual artist from Los Angeles, CA, working in mixed media, installation, sculpture, and curation.
DeRoma received her BFA: Sculpture/Minor: Psychology from Miami University, OH. DeRoma explores the inner journey as a foundational element of her work. She combines found materials and natural ephemera with fresh paint and pigmenting to create her mixed-media pieces.
DeRoma explores the relationship of the Self and humans to and with Nature, particularly as they meet in urban environments. Her deep interest in the nature of being is expressed through the meditative aspects of her patterned and process-driven work.
Weaving research in archetype, mythology, and conversations with natural beings into her work, she provokes curiosity in our respective roots and our relationship with other-than-human sentient beings. She is the co-founder and curator of Dorado 806 Projects, an experimental artist-run project space in Santa Monica, CA.
Artist Statement
I use reclaimed materials like paper, fabric, and foraged natural ephemera to piece together disparate parts, a metaphor for the human experience of building identity through experience and interaction.
I deconstruct these elements, re-dressing them using pigment-based media like gouache, soft pastel, oil, and oil stick, and reconstruct the bits and pieces to form a new whole. I am curious about the intersection of humans and nature, spanning personal perspective to the collective consciousness, and more broadly to the perspectives and experience of non-human sentient beings.
I work with themes of connection, exchange, symbiosis, and unspoken communication, grief, ecocentrism, and animism. I aim to dissolve colonial, patriarchal hierarchies of man over nature through ritualized process, so we can re-place ourselves in the greater web of all beings.