Selina Roman photograph exhibition at Sarasota Art Museum supplies new tackle femininity and sweetness

They appear like whimsical wisps of shade and form and gently rolling landscapes. But Selina Roman’s new physique of labor really consists of components of her personal physique that she’s become modernist-inspired summary photographs. Sarasota Art Museum’s Executive Director Virginia Shearer explains the artist’s rationale.

“Her work is a wonderful take on the female form and the energy that we put towards trying to keep a female form a certain way and a lot of the pressures that come along with living in a female form. They’re all made from twisting and turning her body in certain ways in costume. So if that doesn’t kind of whet your appetite, I don’t know what will.”

Roman wears pastel bodysuits and tights to create narratives across the aesthetics of femininity.

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“It’s very interesting that she chose to also accentuate these certain aspects of the female form through costume,” Shearer noticed.

Roman isn’t any mere point-and-shoot image taker. She makes dozens of choices earlier than she ever makes a picture. Color, placement, costume, lighting and shutter pace all enter the equation.

“There all of those million and one decisions, and they all get melded together in what they call the decisive moment in photography,” stated Shearer. “So it’ll be interesting to see. This is all new work for Selina, and we are really thrilled to be showing it here at Sarasota Art Museum.”

The present’s referred to as “Selina Roman: Abstract Corpulence.” It’s on show on the second ground of the Sarasota Art Museum Aug. 31 by March 29, 2026.

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New works by Selina Román mix pictures, abstraction, and self-portraiture to discover themes of magnificence and the politics of measurement. Roman’s images characteristic tightly cropped photographs of the artist’s personal physique, boldly occupying the complete composition and increasing previous the boundaries of every body. Pastel bodysuits and tights rework the artists’ flesh into new, gently rolling landscapes as amorphous shapes converge to create modernist-inspired compositions. At this scale, Roman’s tightly cropped portrayals of stomachs, thighs, and hips develop into formal research of line, form and shade, asking viewers to think about the human type from some extent of true abstraction. The softly hued palette created by the artist’s bodysuits lends itself to narratives across the aesthetics of femininity. Displayed as a colourful never-before-seen set up, Roman’s images rework the gallery into an area of quiet resistance, subverting conventional concepts of female magnificence.

The work on view on the Sarasota Art Museum is from her XS sequence.

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Each picture is a dye sublimation on aluminum.

Roman was named a prestigious 2024 Critical Mass Top 50 Artist for her XS sequence.

“My work explores ideas of femininity, perception, liminality, memory, place, and how the invisible offers more answers than what’s visible,” states Roman on the touchdown web page of her web site. “Using formal and conceptual methods such as staged and straight photography, appropriation, sound and video, my work confronts established perceptions and norms and offers a new framework for contemplation.”

Roman skilled as a print journalist. A Florida native, she ferreted out tales of injustice in marginalized communities akin to migrant farm staff and the poor.

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After working in journalism, Román spent a number of years at a global safety and investigations agency the place she grew to become aware of the interior workings of the private-sector intelligence group. That clandestine world, rooted in surveillance, gestures and coded particulars, rekindled her love of pictures.

Román obtained her grasp of wonderful arts diploma from the University of South Florida in 2013. She has participated in residencies with the Visual Artists Network and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. Her work is within the assortment of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota; the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs; the Tampa Museum of Art, Hillsborough Community College; in addition to quite a few personal collections.

Román has exhibited nationally at establishments akin to The Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Kenyon College in Ohio, and internationally at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, and Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She additionally exhibited at Brighton Photo Fringe within the United Kingdom in the course of the 2016 Brighton Photo Biennial.

In 2017 she obtained a Hillsborough County Artist Grant and has been invited to take part in Review Santa Fe and Critical Mass Top 50.

Her work has been printed twice within the Oxford American journal, amongst different publications. She at the moment teaches pictures programs on the Ringling College of Art and Design.

Support for WGCU’s arts & tradition reporting comes from the Estate of Myra Janco Daniels, the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation, and Naomi Bloom in loving reminiscence of her husband, Ron Wallace.