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Musings from a Yankee artist abroad in London...
Zen Study 5
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The Yankee artist starts the morning sipping tea and reading up on being a “Badass” and “how to stop doubting her greatness”. Red lipstick and a trip to the British Museum ensue, where she is moved by several prints and drawings shown from the Alexander Walker collection bequest: Edda Redouf’s Hidden Energy; Victor Pasmore’s spiral drawing, Untitled 1981; a Peter Doig etching, Blotter; and especially Brice Marden’s Zen Study 5. Upon returning home, she endeavors to faithfully start fulfilling her weekly horoscope’s charge to “borrow some of Diogenes’ attitude in the coming weeks” by experimenting “with being brassy, saucy and sassy”!
"Embracing counterpoints, like moments of stillness found within chaos, I use a range of materials in my work: drawings, paintings, ceramics, printmaking, video, installation and sculpture."

Romi Sloboda was born in the United States and spent her childhood living in both the United States and her mother's native city, Seoul, Korea. She studied printmaking at the Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre in Florence, and received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from London Metropolitan University. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States as well as in Europe. She has been awarded residencies from the Cité Internationale des Arts Fondation in Paris, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the Herekeke Arts Center in New Mexico. Romi currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom.