Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown)

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Brown, Iona ROZEAL
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Ras-x, Rozeal

American, born 1966

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A woman sitting on a floor with her body angled to our left nearly fills this stylized, vertical painting. Her skin is light tan in some areas, as around her eyes, chest, one hand, and the leg and foot we can see, while what seems like brown paint creeps up her neck to drip upward around her cheeks and onto her forehead. The brown also drips down onto her cleavage, along one arm toward her wrist, and down the shin of her leg. Her right hand, on our left, is entirely brown. She holds her long hair up over her head with her brown hand in front of her face, looking at it with blue eyes and touching it with the other hand. Her hair is blond with dark roots at her scalp, created with long, parallel brushstrokes. Her long nails and curling lips are scarlet red. She wears an emerald-green robe trimmed with white fur and a long strand of pearls that drape over her left arm, closer to us. She sits on a cushion decorated with brown koi fish and stylized blue waves of water, but the exact arrangement of her legs is unclear. A stack of patterned pillows is piled behind her to our left, and comes up to her shoulder. Red circular forms behind her head are painted slate blue with deep brown shadows and red highlights. The words “BACK AND FORTH” are repeated in rows, written in capital yellow letters edged with red, filling the background. Two Japanese characters are painted in red near the lower right corner.
Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown), afro.died, T., 2011, acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on birch plywood panel, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art), 2015.19.243

afro.died, T.

Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown) · 2011 · acrylic, pen, ink, marker, and graphite on birch plywood panel ·  Accession ID  2015.19.243

This is a painting of two abstract people surrounded by bubble-like shapes. The people are at the bottom of the tall painting, and both have large, elaborate hairstyles adorned with gold chains. Their faces are painted with geometric patterns in cream and tan, and they have stylized features including dark, segmented eyebrows, barely visible noses, and dark lips. They are draped with strands of pearls that they hold in their hands, and they have round discs by their ears that emit brown rays. Above them, numerous cream-colored bubbles float, and above those are cream drips of paint on a tan background. Words are written in cream above the bubbles. The colors in the painting are earthy tones like beige, black, and gold.
Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown), SONG OF SOLOMON 5:16 – BE BEEWORLD: BE B BOY B GIRL (after “Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Gueifei playing the same flute,” by Kitagawa Utamaro), 2014-2016, mixed media on wood, Gift of Giorgio Furioso and William A. Clark Fund, 2021.19.1

SONG OF SOLOMON 5:16 – BE BEEWORLD: BE B BOY B GIRL (after “Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Gueifei playing the same flute,” by Kitagawa Utamaro)

Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown) · 2014-2016 · mixed media on wood ·  Accession ID  2021.19.1

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