Sign
Estate-Authorized
Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Sign is a panoramic poem you can put on a wall. 30 x 15 inches, acrylic collage on canvas — a long, narrow format unusual in the estate. Sits squarely in Barbara Romain's text-based / mixed-media work, where language drawn from street, protest and song is built up in layers of collage and paint. The 1:2 stretch makes it read like a banner; the surface makes it read like a wall someone wrote on. You finish it left to right, then you start it again.
Sign — Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Barbara Romain (1949–2024) was a Philadelphia-trained, Los Angeles–based painter whose work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, and the John F. Kennedy Center, among others. Diagnosed with a degenerative retinal disease in 1984, she spent four decades pioneering a celebrated body of work she called "visual music"—building paintings from what she could hear, remember, and imagine rather than what she could see. Working with braille-labeled paints, hand-cut stencils, and brilliant color, she turned the loss of sight into a new way of seeing. These prints are released under authorization of the Estate of Barbara Romain.
