Harmonia Rosales: Black Feminine Empowerment in Paintings
Mar 28, 2021 · Rosales gives power back to the Black feminine and purifies age-old images that have been forced upon all women by creating her Black Renaissance art. Making women more than the mother and harlot— giving Black women, Black people, historical examples of their radiance, beauty, intellect, and power.
Painting depicting God as Black woman causes stir online
Jun 1, 2017 · Harmonia Rosales, a Chicago artist, reimagined the famous "Creation of Adam" painting that adorns the Sistine Chapel to depict a black, female God.
Creation of God | Catalogue | Harmonia Rosales
By subverting Michelangelo’s well-known fresco, Rosales paints Black female empowerment into history, and simultaneously challenges hegemonic systems of belief.
God as a Black woman: The Afro-Cuban painter who reimagined …
Apr 12, 2019 · In 2017 Rosales painted her own version of Michelangelo’s work in which she reimaged God and the First Man as black women. Her work, titled “The Creation of God”, “riffs on Michelangelo’s portrayal of God’s creation of Earth’s first human, Adam.
The Black Woman is God - Wikipedia
The Black Woman Is God is a recurring group exhibition of Black women artists curated by Karen Seneferu and Melorra Green, which started in 2013 and in 2016 and 2017 has been located at the San Francisco city-owned nonprofit art space SOMArts.
The Black Woman is God
The exhibition will feature over 80 new works by Black women employing painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film/video, mixed, new media, and performance, showing that when Black women create, they are God.
This Artist Painted God as a Black Woman – And it's Gone Viral
May 17, 2017 · The original painting can be seen in the Sistine Chapel (located in in Vatican City), but Harmonia's version replaces Adam, God, and the other male characters with an entire cast of black...
Harmonia Rosales - Wikipedia
In this painting, Rosales recreates Michelangelo's Creazione di Adamo (The Creation of Adam) by displaying both God and Adam as Black women. The Creation of Adam shows Jehovah's finger and the elegant, naked body of the first man.
Harmonia Rosales repaints classic artworks to show God is a
Sep 5, 2018 · The original work is injected with colour and soul, as God becomes a black woman through Rosales’ incredibly realist ability to replicate traditional images in an almost identical state.
I Found Myself in ‘The Black Woman is God’ Exhibit at SOMArts
Dec 17, 2021 · “The Black Woman is God” is now in its fifth iteration featuring art from Black women at SOMA Arts Cultural Center (Photo: Brandy Collins)