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At the Museum of the African Diaspora, Dewey Crumpler — the man who taught Deborah Roberts, Rozeal and Kehinde Wiley at the San Francisco Art Institute — exhibits five decades of persistent, dynamic work. Take a peek:
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Dewey Crumpler Paints ‘Portals to Absolute Autonomy’ | KQED
At the Museum of the African Diaspora, the longtime teacher exhibits five decades of persistent, dynamic work.
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October 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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“afro.died, T.” by Rozeal. (American) - Acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on birch plywood panel / 2011 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #Rozeal #art #artText #WomenArtists #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #IonaRozealBrown #ContemporaryArt #WomanArtist
American artist Rozeal. (Iona Rozeal Brown) created this work after becoming fascinated by ganguro, a Japanese youth style associated with deeply tanned skin, blond or bleached hair, dramatic makeup, and fashion shaped in part by African American hip-hop culture. She combines that contemporary reference with the visual language of ukiyo-e and bijin-ga images of fashionable women, producing a deliberately unstable hybrid of Japanese, Black American, and Western imagery. A glamorous woman reclines diagonally across the panel, gathering a long fall of blond hair in both hands. Her skin is partly covered in dripping brown pigment that leaves lighter areas visible beneath, while dark roots, red lips, elongated scarlet nails, pearls, and a green robe trimmed with white fur heighten the sense of deliberate self-fashioning. Behind her, large circles resembling records overlap with angular lines and repeated “BACK AND FORTH” text. At lower left and across her thigh, koi, curling blue waves, patterned cushions, and flattened decorative space evoke Japanese print traditions. Her lowered gaze makes the scene feel less like a posed portrait than a private moment of transformation. The brown color appears applied rather than natural, making racial transformation visible and raising questions about imitation, appropriation, and the unequal consequences of “putting on” signs of Blackness. The repeated phrase “BACK AND FORTH” reinforces that cultural movement and also recalls Aaliyah’s 1994 song. The title is another layered exchange as “afro.died, T.” sounds like Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, while its written form suggests an “afro” dying or disappearing. Rozeal. does not reduce cultural borrowing to a simple accusation. Instead, she makes the painting seductive, witty, and uneasy at once, asking what is gained, distorted, or erased when beauty and identity travel across cultures.
October 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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When Paintings Speak Across Time

What happens when artists remix the past? See how four paintings speak to each other across centuries in Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne.
Four Paintings Speak to Each Other Across Space and Time | National Gallery of Art
See how Titian, Cezanne, and Rozeal. remix and reinterpret conventions for painting people.
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April 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Portraiture by two Black women artists from the D.C. region are currently on view in the nation’s capital, both in dialogue with art’s historical canon. Tokyo-born, Maryland-based artist Tawny Chatmon and DC native Rozeal.
Tawny Chatmon & Rozeal. Expand Art's Canon in Two DC Museums - BmoreArt
Looking back on 2025, Amy Sherald’s decision to withdraw her survey exhibition American Sublime from the National Portrait Gallery and the show’s subsequent homecoming to the Baltimore Museum of Art w...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Rozeal, "afro.died, T." (2011)

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December 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Sky is trying his best to restrain them, and 0R4CL3 is using their powers of precognition to guide him to them. Rozeal is bleeding out in a back alley. Someone should help her.
July 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Hello again, Rozeal.
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The theme for this year’s Black History Month is a celebration of Art and Black Artists. Attached is a painting by Rozeal, formerly known as Iona Rozeal Brown. Titled “afro.died,T.”, (pronounced Aphrodite) it is done in acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on a birch plywood panel. 2011.
February 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Painting by Rozeal Painting by Rozeal Painting by Rozeal Costume designed by Rozeal
January 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Nice to meet everyone in this platform! I'm Rozeal Cecilia Zhao, a casual art appreciator who's keen on music, fanarts, alternative fashion, and just about whatever isn't mainstream in pop culture!

I hope we'll get along here!
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January 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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in my beautiful world scarlen/rozeal/ricoth are poly and colony 9 trio parallels
November 17, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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I went this exhibit at the Schirn Kunsthalle of art inspired by hip-hop. It focused on the U.S., but also showed some of how the culture has spread and adapted around the globe. The exhibit provided a lot of good context to the work and to hip hop culture in general.
A white wall with large black letters. “THE CULTURE HIP-HOP UND ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST IM 21. JAHRHUNDERT” El Franco Lee Il DJ Screw in Heaven 2008 Acryllc and vinyl record on canvas Painting of a DJ at two turntables with multiple arms, as though in motions. Several men stand behind him. Most with white styrofoam cups, once with a microphone. Rozeal divine selektah ... big up (after yoshitoshi's moon of the filial son) A DJ with long dreadlocks wears a track jacket over a kimono and kneels at a table covered in purple cloth with two turntables. Megan Lewis “Fresh Squeezed Lemonade” An impressionistic portrait of a woman with a striking up-do and large gold earrings in front of a background covered in lemons.
February 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Rozeal, "Sacrifice #2: It Has to Last" (after Yoshitoshi’s “Drowsy: the appearance of a harlot of the Meiji era”), 2007

enamel, acrylic and paper on panel 52 x 38 in. (132 x 96.5 cm)
September 12, 2023 at 6:43 PM