Zeal Harris Selected Works and Works in Progress

Join Studio Artist-in-Residence Zeal Harris for a final presentation of work created throughout her fourteen-week tenure at the Camera Obscura Art Lab, with selections from previous works on fabric and paper. RSVPs appreciated: http://COALZealHarris.eventbrite.com

Zeal Harris is known for creating critical, caricaturesque, narrative artworks with a whimsical, bold, urban-vernacular flavor. Select exhibition venues include, The 2015 Ghetto Biennale in Port Au Prince Haiti, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, The California African-American Museum, 18th Street Arts Center, and Wallspace LA Gallery. She received a BFA from Howard University and an MFA from Otis College of Art & Design.zealsart.com
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