Artwork Description
Diego Romero – Don’t Shoot, Diego
Dimensions: 31 x 28″ framed / 25 x 22″ paper
Year: 2015
Medium: lithograph
Edition: ed. 32/35
Diego Romero and other contemporary Native American artists often reference the Pueblo Revolt and the atrocities that led up to it – enslavement, whippings, amputations of limbs, and murders. These abuses caused the pueblos to rebel in what has been called America’s First Revolution.
Although he is best known as a ceramic artist, Diego Romero works in a variety of media, including drawings and prints. Usually, the drawings are studies for his spectacular bowls, the form Romero most often employs to express his ideas. A range of influences have shaped Diego Romero’s graphic style – Mimbres and Greek ceramics and comic book art.