Roller Coaster Manhattan
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
5.90 x 23.62 in
Roller Coaster Manhattan I
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
18.11 x 24.01 in
Roller Coaster Manhattan II
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
18.11 x 24.01 in
Roller Coaster Manhattan III
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
18.11 x 24.01 in
Roller Coaster Manhattan IV
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
18.11 x 24.01 in
Roller Coaster Manhattan flow
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
Tryptych 18.11 x 72.04 in (18.11 x 24.01 in each)
Subway Roller Coaster Manhattan
2014
Charcoal on paper
39.37 x 86.61 in
Foggy Roller Coaster Manhattan
2014
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
Dyptich 9.84 x 59.84 in (9.84 x 29.92 in each)
New York City Moonlight
2014
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Dyptich 43.30 x 175.59 in (43.30 x 87.79 in)
Roller Coaster Manhattan
| 2014
One day, María José Romero took a city by assault. At a prudent distance, in Bushwick (a half-dead industrial area), when Manhattan looked elsewhere, Maria José captured the shadow of New York. Others say that what was taken were fragments of the silhouette, but it was not so: there is in the drawings that were exhibited inside the factory space, something with movement: the drawings on paper are also air, the dark air, black soot —the footprint of mechanical movement.
Over the space where María José kept (drew) her captive Manhattan she looked at us on the terrace. It was without shade, without soot, clean as a girl out of the water.
Carmen Boullosa
New York City, 2014
