Born in Sarnia Ontario, Canada, Jenny Liz Rome has been dedicating her life to art. Graduated at OCADU in 2005, she has immediately proven her main artistic features through constant experimentation with multi-layered processes.
The main trait of her creations is the pop underground, exacerbated by hyper-electric tonalities of hair and a generally strong impact of images. Colour is mostly left to the hair only, while the remaining parts of drawings are held in black and white. Femininity definitely leads the way, through the constant proposition of young girlish bodies, usually covered up with visionary, surreal fashion garments.
The contraposition of modern and classic is highly delightful: the pure, delicate shapes are a sweet deviation from the all the above-the-line features that the artist includes in her drawings. Modernism is even traced in models’ faces, usually inspired by big contemporary icons, such as Madonna or even Harry Potter saga’s Hermione Granger. Music is a further integral part of Rome’s compositions: it’s not a casualty that two drawings are openly inspired by daft punk’s album covers. Realism of shapes is touched by extravagance in outfits and complements, but the overall effect is genuine delicateness.
Rome’s work is currently exposed in galleries and print shops in Canada, the United States, Australia and England. Not to mention her publications in magazines such as Marie Claire Russia, as well as her illustrations on the packing of hair-straighteners by the famous haircare brand Halo.
Extravagance leads the way, still, romance will never be out of fashion, and the work by this young artist is a proof of evidence of this axiom.
March 18, 2014
Central Saint Martins
British Higher School of Art and Design
Academy of Design Australia
Scuola Politecnica di Design
LOFT 42
Red Dot design award
