In a San Francisco Chronicle review of ”The Spaces,” Wall-Romana’s 2007 exhibition, Kenneth Baker noted that “a viewer senses her constantly marveling as she rediscovers Western painting’s ultimate strangeness and the achievements that have sprung from it.” Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, the artist moved to Minneapolis seven years ago. She holds a BA from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her 2011 exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art, “Taking Time,” referred to the temporal layering of large and complexly orchestrated works, as well as to the amount of time it takes the Lot #23