About Me
Meghan Romance is an artist and motion designer from Northern Virginia dealing with the dynamic relationship between the reader/viewer and written word in media. She completed her BFA in Art and Visual Technology, with a focus in New Media Art, from George Mason University in 2019 where she first started exploring the adaption of text into an audiovisual experience. Building upon these concepts, Romance focused her MFA in Motion Media Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, completed in 2023, on delving into writing itself as a medium. Most recently, her asemic studies have been published in the online magazine Utsanga, her piece Rx from her solo show Encoded at Cedar House Gallery in Savannah, Georgia May 4-7, 2023 was displayed at Digital Graffiti 2024 festival.
Myself: as an Artist
Love for the written word has been a constant throughout Meghan Romance's life, evolving from the singular intimate experience between reader and page to a desire to capture the internal experience of reading in abstracted visual form. Her practice blurs the line between reader and viewer, leading the audience to question the very nature of representation by depriving them the semantic validation of a text. Through graphemic expression, the treatment of language as raw matter, Romance delves into the nature of written language itself to reject the domination of commercial imagery which blocks opportunity for critical examination. Her work aims to return interpretive power to the reader/viewer by forcing them into an unstable position of recognizing their own state of unknowing. It is here the audience is left to generate meaning based on their own internal relationship to written forms rather than being guided to a desired conclusion.
& Things I've Done
Publications | Presentations
Écrit en Cendres (2023) | https://www.utsanga.it/romance-ecrit-en-cendres/
Graphemic Expression in Motion Graphics | May 5, 2023 Scad Grad Salon
Asemic Studies (2022) | https://www.utsanga.it/romance-asemic-studies/
Shows | Festivals | Films
Rx (2023) |Digital Graffiti 2024 Finalist
Eukaryote (2022) | Artomatic 2024 Experimental Film Block| Digital Graffiti 2023 Finalist
"Encoded" Solo Gallery Show | May 4- 7 2023 Cedar House Gallery Savannah, GA
Thunderwords (2022) | SCAD LaCoste Projections Event 2022 | Digital Graffiti 2022
Whispers to Dead Paper (2019) | George Mason University Senior Art Show December 2019
Glitched Ballet (2017) | XYZ Group Gallery Show at Olly Olly in Fairfax, VA 2019
Ana, Myself et, Moi (2019) | Title Designer
Bring The Pain (2019) | Title Designer
Interviews
Digital Graffiti 2024
Digital Graffiti 2023
Workshops
Star Lab George Mason University Projection Mapping Workshop | March 15 2024