# @newarkmuseumart on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVRcWz8jpi0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/57729485-newarkmuseumart-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-27T19:12:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Newark Museum of Art (@newarkmuseumart) — https://gondola.cc/newarkmuseumart

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Bony Ramirez is a Dominican-born artist 🇩🇴who lives and works in New Jersey. A self-taught artist, he paints surreal images of contemporary Caribbean life and reimagines colonial histories. He engages with Western European painting traditions as a way to think about the colonial influence still present in the Caribbean. This interrogation of and engagement with conventional portraiture activates our 18th and 19th century American portrait collection, while also prompting the viewer to think about who has traditionally been left out of these paintings. 
 
🖼️ This artwork blends Ramirez’s interest in engaging with traditional portraiture, art history, and Latin American traditions of magical realism. He has combined the art historical convention of depicting allegorical figures with his fantastical interpretation of Caribbean history. He created a powerful, Black goddess rescuing the Caribbean, symbolized by the still-live crabs, before the moment of complete destruction (when they have been fully cooked). 
 
Bony Ramirez, Allegory of Liberation, 2024 
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, Bristol paper on wood panel, 48 x 48 in. 
Purchase 2025 Contemporary Art Society of Great Britain Fund, Emma Fantone Endowment Fund for Contemporary American Art, and Franklin Conklin Memorial Fund  2025.5 
© Bony Ramirez 

#bonyramirez #nmoa #carribeanhistory

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