Opening: Amanda Dannáe Romero: They Carved Their Names into the Kitchen Table

Amanda Dannáe Romero: They Carved Their Names into the Kitchen Table
On view: October 11–November 1, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, October 11, 6:00-9:00 pm

They Carved Their Names into the Kitchen Table focuses on the preservation of memory, artistic lineage, and the practice of devotion in gathering around the kitchen table.

This exhibition uses imagery from family photo albums the artist inherited which date back at least five generations in northern New Mexico. Romero cyanotyped printed many of these images onto muslin fabric and incorporated various mediums including traditional colcha embroidery and tinsmithing, two mediums that were passed on by the artist’s family through many decades.

This work explores how we preserve memories and the informal spaces of gathering through which we create them. Romero uses the mediums her family refined as a way of threading together stories and legacies from her family’s deep history in Santa Fe to the present. It isn’t just a way of art making; it is a shared language that keeps the voices of those before us alive.