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Carlos L Romero is an Avant-garde artist, specializing in digital paintings photo paintings and portraits.
In the Wikipedia definition Avant-garde means ”advance guard” or ”vanguard”, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative.
Born in 1952 in Washington Heights-Harlem, NY; birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance, Carlos developed a passion for art and drawing at an early age while growing up in the Suburban North Bronx.
His family exposed him to all of the great Museums in NY such as The Met, The Modern and The Guggenheim, where the vast exhibitions of the Masters made a lasting impression on forming the young artist. In 1967, he attended Brooklyn Technical High School studying Industrial Design. Traipsing all over the newly forming SoHo, he began to absorb the new school of modernist painters and artists, profoundly shaping his Avant-garde style and future direction.
He attended Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn NY and was selected to exhibit in a SoHo gallery by an owner, willing to take a chance on an unknown. Instead he walked away from art and painting, not being able to realize on canvas, what was within in his mind.
The 80’s began a new era for the artist that saw him working mounting exhibits for well known African-American artists at the Studio Museum of Harlem, a short lived Tremont Avenue, Bronx NY gallery exhibit and a commissioned piece while working at The Hansborough Recreation Center, a trophy case for art deco style building in Harlem, NY, designed by Carlos and fabricated by The NY Department of Parks Carpentry Shop.
1996 with the advent of personal computing saw the spark that ignited, the Avant-garde artist with a vengeance to embark on a whole new direction of the realization of art that was always within his mind and sketches, now being able to take substance.

artist statement:

Carlos L Romero art is Avant-garde.

The future he would like you to see is here. The contemporary artist wields the computer as a brush. The ones and zeros come to life into multi-dimensional images that push the very boundaries of art, drawing, painting, photography and life as we know it.
Avant-garde is like no other genre, its object is to break all rules of the commonly accepted art form. But it experiments with the sense of sight to present the viewer with that which is outside of the common rules and boundaries of dimension never seen before€.
Carlos work is mainly comprised of modernist prints, photo-art, drawings, portraits, and collaboration work and has received considerable international attention as of late. While he claims to have wiped the slate clean of previous influences, Carlos’ art is often similar and reminiscent of many of Monet or Picasso’s work and it takes a sharp eye to see that it is not their work. “Any one of my images is a stimuli to your brain. You may like one piece and not another, it’s as if a particular work is specially attuned to resonate within you” he says.
Carlos often exposes a dimensional shift in his works, like a dance with reality
the likes of a Flamenco dancer. “In all my images I try to coax the thought from within my brain to be perceived by the viewer, not as an image on paper or screen, but as thought vibration received in the normal manor through the light receptors directly to their mind. Carlos was born in 1952 and attended the Pratt Institute School of Fine Art.
In all of Carlos work his approach is that of things to come. Through new ideas and methods a higher level of perceptiveness of the work are attained, he believes.
Says Carlos, “The perception – and reaction at the same time
- between the artist and the spectator, and the need to understand the
domain of experience of one another, is my contribution. That is why I get inside of each work and draw my way out. They should conceive to understand the intuitive notion I present, and thereby expand their consciousness from within the image.

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