Salon de Mangú reimagines the beauty parlor as sacred space — a portrait steeped in Dominican ritual, memory, and pride. The subject sits beneath traditional rollers, caught in a moment of everyday intimacy that carries generations of care within it: the styling chair as much a site of inheritance as it is of vanity.
Behind her, a pattern lifted from William Morris's textile designs has been quietly subverted. His signature florals replaced with red onions, the humble staple that accompanies mangú at nearly every Dominican table. The substitution is playful on its surface, but it does real work underneath: it takes a visual language historically associated with European domestic elegance and repopulates it with the ingredients of a different inheritance entirely, insisting that Dominican foodways and beauty traditions deserve the same decorative reverence.
The painting sits at the intersection of portraiture and still life, treating a cultural ritual (getting your hair done, eating mangú with family) with the same formal attention traditionally reserved for royalty or myth. It's a celebration made with humor and specificity rather than nostalgia alone, and it continues a throughline in my work: finding the overlooked or under-mythologized rituals of women's lives and giving them the visual weight history rarely did.
Specifications:
Shipping:
Ships via USPS Ground, with a signature requirement
Please allow 2–3 weeks for arrival
In-person pick-up in NYC is available at check out
Terms:
Colors may vary slightly from screen to in-person due to monitor calibration
Certificate of Authenticity included
All purchases are final sale.
* Check out the care instructions
Salon de Mangú reimagines the beauty parlor as sacred space — a portrait steeped in Dominican ritual, memory, and pride. The subject sits beneath traditional rollers, caught in a moment of everyday intimacy that carries generations of care within it: the styling chair as much a site of inheritance as it is of vanity.
Behind her, a pattern lifted from William Morris's textile designs has been quietly subverted. His signature florals replaced with red onions, the humble staple that accompanies mangú at nearly every Dominican table. The substitution is playful on its surface, but it does real work underneath: it takes a visual language historically associated with European domestic elegance and repopulates it with the ingredients of a different inheritance entirely, insisting that Dominican foodways and beauty traditions deserve the same decorative reverence.
The painting sits at the intersection of portraiture and still life, treating a cultural ritual (getting your hair done, eating mangú with family) with the same formal attention traditionally reserved for royalty or myth. It's a celebration made with humor and specificity rather than nostalgia alone, and it continues a throughline in my work: finding the overlooked or under-mythologized rituals of women's lives and giving them the visual weight history rarely did.
Specifications:
Shipping:
Ships via USPS Ground, with a signature requirement
Please allow 2–3 weeks for arrival
In-person pick-up in NYC is available at check out
Terms:
Colors may vary slightly from screen to in-person due to monitor calibration
Certificate of Authenticity included
All purchases are final sale.
* Check out the care instructions
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