Black rennaisance art

A new art exhibit at the Spelman College Museum of Art reimagines Renaissance-era creation stories with Black religions and history at the center.

Harmonia Rosales is a contemporary Afro-Cuban artist based in Chicago. Her work explores the ways in which we have allowed a continuously manipulated society to dictate who is superior in beauty and power. “By creating positive works of art using black women, the complete opposite from which we were used to seeing, we can begin to deconstruct our power structure," says Rosales. Jeggua is an Orisha from the Yoruba religion. Created by Obatalá, Jeggua was a perfect human being. In…

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Carl Van Vechten, featured in this week’s issue, photographed African-American cultural luminaries including James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston.

Chicago-born artist Harmonia Rosales says her striking portraits speak to “the part of me that has been the least represented in our society.” Rosales tells Colossal that much of her work⁠—⁠she largely features a central Black figure surrounded by floral and animalistic details—is linked to her Afro-Cuban background. “I empower women of color through art that challenges ideological hegemony in contemporary society,” she writes. “The Black female bodies of my paintings are the memory of my…

These painters get it.

Harmonia on Instagram: “Clouds and hands today☁️ #clouds #hands #art #painting #melanin #layers #progress”