2021 Installation Hotel Loretto in Santa Fe NM a collaboration with Virgil Ortiz.   
center piece driveway : Foreseer Po'Pay leader of the Pueblo Revolt
fountain trio: Runners integral part of the Pueblo Revolt

Combining painting and sculpture in unexpected materials and forms, Colorado artist Daniel Romano
offers new dimensions of thought on the world today. Using eyes trained by a life of creative work and
his unique neurodiverse perspective, he makes art that expresses his one-of-a-kind view of the world.
For Romano, words and concepts do not have one concrete meaning; they are playful, curious, and
malleable. His mind forms verbal and visual puns and conceptual references that lay outside of typical
interpretations, creating fresh takes on contemporary issues.
From clouds made of steel to eyeballs that gaze back at us, mechanical heads that seem imbued with
human emotions, and relics that our contentious times deserve, Romano’s work is constantly surprising,
presenting fresh takes on materials, forms, and issues. He draws from the history of modernist sculpture
and painting, contemporary graffiti and street art, detoured commercial icons, and subverted
trademarks, layering and juxtaposing images and symbols to express new ideas and to shake us out of
our complacency.
This mixture of images and concepts is manifested into visually and physically compelling objects
through Romano’s command of materials from the world of construction, drawing on his varied
background in several trades and his accomplished history as a craftsman. He often designs and
fabricates tools that enable him to create specific features of his works, in the process modifying their
meanings though the process of making them.
At first, Romano’s work appears amusing and almost playful. Deeper consideration reveals the complex
issues underneath the explosion of colors, forms, and references, leaving the viewer with a paradox to
ponder over the coming days and weeks. Romano is currently making paintings with metal reliefs and
sculptures that respond to current social issues that include school shootings, reproductive rights, bodily
autonomy, and global warming. Icons for the future that bear the anxieties of the present, his works
leave a deep impression on viewers who take the time to look beneath the surface.
Romano is represented in private collections across the globe and has several permanent public works.
Clients include
Louis Vuitton, Fine Art Center of Colorado Springs, N3 Taphouse,  and USA Basketball. Collaborations
with artists including Native Cochiti artist/designer Virgil Ortiz, a Pueblo artist inspired by two loves:
traditional figurative ceramics and Native American Futurism.

-mARTIN fOX