Rosales had her first solo show, Black Imaginary to Counter Hegemony (B.I.T.C.H.), at Los Angeles’ Simard Bilodeau Contemporary in September 2017. “I paint my subjects darker because I don’t want you to mistake them for anything other than this pure form of where we came from,” she said.
This formed the basis for her kind of painting, with the sole aim to clear all doubts. “The Birth of Eve”, 2018, from ‘New World Consciousness’.
“They’d ask, ‘Are you part Asian? Where did you come from?’ … I was like, ‘Well, I’m Cuban and I’m Black too.’ I always had to figure out what I say to people,” she told OZY in an interview. She said people were never sure of her ethnicity. Growing up, Rosales, who calls herself a self-taught artist, took classes and got herself admitted to the University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts. Nevertheless, the idea of a black female God got many angry, with some even demanding why she had based her painting on Michelangelo’s work rather than coming up with something new. Rosales loves to see her identity as a woman of colour represented in art “When you consider that all human life came out of Africa, the Garden of Eden and all, then it only makes sense to paint God as a black woman, sparking life in her own image,” she added. They are the “masters” of the masterpieces. “White figures are a staple in classic art featured in major museums. Rosales lives in Champaign, Illinois with her husband and three children.For someone who wants to see her identity as a woman of colour represented in art, Rosales at the time said: “I wanted to take a significant painting, a widely recognised painting that subconsciously or consciously conditions us to see white male figures as powerful and authoritative and flip the script, establish a counter-narrative.” Haromonia Rosales. Some of them are new versions of familiar tales, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with African American characters. Rosales likes working on books that feature African Americans.
She has also written books of her own, including a new series featuring the character Minnie Merriweather. She has created illustrations for the "Addy" books in the popular American Girls series, and she has illustrated a collection of poems. Melodye Benson Rosales spreads her talent far and wide in the world of children's books.
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