Nancy Romero has an exhibit of her art at the Bakersfield College library. She describes her work as “grounded in mythology and anthropology.”

Romero started her interest in anthropology in more traditional study. Yet she abandoned this study because of “dissatisfaction with the impersonal tools of anthropological investigation.”

She described her work as “the intersection of Nature and Man.” She also described her work as “about the rigidity of morality, the different views of what is deemed ‘good’ and ‘evil.'” She has also done work based on creation stories. Romero said she was “fascinated by the contrast between the “Before” and “After”

Romero said, “‘Before’ suggesting innocence, stasis, and ‘After’, movement, transformation and decay.”

Romero works in several different media in order to match her “inner vision.” She works with what she described as “old Flemish oil glazing techniques.” She has also worked in tempera, gold leaf, and dioramas. Romero used these many media to bring “depth” to her work. She learned of these painting and media styles after she took a workshop from Syvana Barrett. Romero called the workshop “fortuitous.”

Richard Villanueva, a student at BC, came to the exhibit and found the “three dimensional art” very “interesting” and “really cool”.

Romero’s work also gave Villanueva a feeling of nostalgia. “It gave me a flashback of my childhood of being a young kid. It almost gave me a nostalgia moment.” Villanueva was also interested by the more religiously themed work at the exhibit. He said, “I think the most captivating thing is how it has the snake coming out of the tree here, and at the same time it has a skeleton at the top. It’s kind of a symbol of death. I think it’s my most favorite one.”