🖤🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon 📢#NewExhibit @mocada_museum Presents @honeiee Harmonia Rosales | Miss Education: Reclaiming Our Identity, March 11-May 24, 2020. Opening reception March 11, 7:00PM-10:00PM. 80 Hanson Place, #Brooklyn NY. RSVP: www.mocada.org. • 🖼 Our Lady of Regla oil on panel with 24k Gold leaf. #HarmoniaRosales www.harmoniarosales.com • • "The third and final chapter in MoCADA’s exploration of spirituality in the African diaspora features Harmonia Rosales’ Miss Education: Reclaiming Our Identity, which examines America’s puritanical foundation and approach to what is civilized while shedding light on issues of today. Though these ideals made by Europeans often overlook those who don’t fit into “traditional” frameworks, and deny the African origins of religion and their involuntary route to the Americas, they have never determined the true value of the Black woman. The identity of the Black woman tells a much bigger story of creation, of god, of being a Black female, of being a work of art. And finally, these erroneous modes of thinking are questioned and shifted to carve out new concepts of excellence." •• "Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Cuban American born in Chicago. The Black female bodies of her paintings are the memory of her ancestors expressed in a way to heal and promote self-love. In addition, the approach that nourishes Rosales’ art is closely linked to her multicultural Afro-Cuban background. The ethereal creations to which she gives birth on the canvas are a synonym of female empowerment and cultural acceptance, by which she has grappled with." #HarmoniaLee #BlackArt #AfricanDiasporicArt #AfricanSpirituality #AfroCubanArtists #BlackWomenArt #Yemaya #Art #ArtAndTheCity #gold #flowers #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/B9jlhHzA_cJ/?igshid=1w6ohwf20ard7
