Harmonia Rosales 'Portrait Of Eve' Print Release Details

Artist: Harmonia Rosales
Title: Portrait Of Eve
Medium: Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 58 x 58 cm
Edition: TIMED
Price: £726

 

*available at Noon EST on Wednesday October 29th, 2025

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Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Cuban American painter born in Chicago in 1984 who rewrites art history by placing Black women at the center of Renaissance grandeur. Raised on the West Side, she grew up immersed in Santería and stories of Yoruba orishas told by her grandmother, while her mother, a children’s book illustrator, modeled her as the original Addy for American Girl, seeding an early awareness of representation. Entirely self taught, Rosales uses oil on Belgian linen to craft luminous scenes where classical composition meets Afrocentric power: in Creation of God she recasts Michelangelo’s Sistine moment as a Black woman birthing Eve from a celestial womb, flipping the narrative of origin and authority.

Her palette glows with gold leaf and jewel tones, echoing Renaissance luxury while depicting natural hair, dark skin and African textiles as the new ideal of beauty. Works such as Birth of Oshun reimagine Botticelli’s Venus as the Yoruba orisha of love and rivers, surrounded by Black angels who radiate both sensuality and divinity. These paintings serve as acts of healing, offering her daughter and viewers of the diaspora mirrors of strength and self love within stories long dominated by white figures.

Exhibitions at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a touring show Master Narrative have positioned Rosales at the forefront of contemporary discourse on race, gender and identity. By merging impeccable Old Master technique with radical reclamation, she invites us to question accepted canons and to see harmony in a world where Black women reign as creators, goddesses and agents of their own history.