Christopher Romer creates wooden sculpture that recalls aspects of carpentry while revealing the material’s natural source. Elements of his pieces evoke the colored enamel paint trim one might find around a bathroom doorway or on mom’s old kitchen table, while the surface patinas of his work often suggest patterns of animal skins, plumage, marbled stone or flesh. Romer received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA from the Chelsea College of Art in London, and studied at Dusseldorf Kunstakademie in Germany. Romer has taught in the sculpture departments of NYU, RISD, and SUNY Purchase. He is a two-time recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Sculpture Space.
Bemis Center Artist–in–Residence in 1995, 1997-98 and 2005.
