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 am interested in the intersection of humans and nature, both from a personal perspective and a collective conscious, societal, and species-level point of view—the imagined perspectives of other-than-human sentient beings. I work with themes of connection, unspoken communication, grief, ecocentrism and animism. Breaking down human, colonial, patriarchal hierarchies. From where we get lost as a species to where we can re-place ourselves in the greater web of all beings. My portal to this place is the inner journey—self-reflection, lucid planes, plant allies, breath, and nature meditations.
I use found paper and ephemera, gouache, acrylic, fabric, and other foraged natural materials to piece together many tiny parts—a metaphor for the human experience of the building of identity. Through the process of deconstruction, re-dressing, and reconstruction of these ephemera, archetypal symbols surface. Themes of the intricacy and nuance of human relationships emerge—relation to Self, to others, to the societally implicit other-ness of nature, and the inherent wildness of mammalian being.
In each of these relationships, as in the pieces, there are fractals and patterns, a million tiny moments of connection, the passage of time, the elements. But stepping back, the patterns and pieces converge into a picture of wholeness. I make these pieces as a meditation on these relationships.
My aim is to remind you, the viewer, that you are nature, and that you sit in a web of all beings, inextricably linked to your Spider sister, your Sequoia brother, and the collective consciousness.
MD
