Foreign Intimacies by artist Mel Rosas

Here is the extracted text from the image:

About Mel Rosas

Mel Rosas was born in Des Moines, IA in 1950 and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Drake University in Des Moines. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Mel is a professor with the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, where he has served on the faculty since 1976. On June 2, 1994, he received a Board of Governor's Faculty Recognition Award for outstanding professional achievement. In 2013, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to WSU in the areas of creative activity, teaching, and service, Mel was appointed as the Elaine L. Jacob Endowed Chair in Visual Arts.

"My work is an ongoing investigation of Latin America and Latin American culture. Half-Panamanian and half-American, my identity is…