Joseph Romano continues his exploration of crumbled matter in a group of well-made paintings on the gallery’s largest wall. His interesting skirmishes with color have been relegated to a side wall, where what is probably the best painting in the show—a bold pushing of red, white and blue shapes into a parody of patriotism—hangs. Romano is one of the most under-publicized painters in the Bay Area, and deserves more representation in the national exhibitions in which so many lesser local artists are often featured.
—James Monte
March 1963
VOL. 1, NO. 9
