I am a visual artist working in collage, assemblage sculpture and altered books. My practice explores identity, memory and the history of the African diaspora. Vintage and contemporary images collide to convey how the past informs the present.
Let Them Choke
Wealth, Hard Work, and Enterprise
Not Geo (Woman)
Collage on watercolor paper
12 x 9 inches
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Not Geo (Sitting Man)
Collage on watercolor paper
12 x 9 inches
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Not Geo (Girl)
Collage on watercolor paper
12 x 9 inches
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Not Geo (Crossed Arms)
Collage on watercolor paper
12 x 9 inches
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Tell Her Things Will Be Different
Collage on panel; first in “The Manticore and the Mermaid” collage series retelling the story of President George Washington’s attempts to recapture Oney Judge, one of the few enslaved people to escape from Washington permanently.
36 x 48 x 2.5 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Tell Her Things Will Be Different (detail)
Detail re-casting President George Washington as a mythical creature directing its henchman to recapture escaped prey. Collage inspired by the book “Never Caught” by Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
The Ingratitude of the Girl
Collage on panel; second in “The Manticore and the Mermaid” collage series re-imagining Ona Maria (Oney) Judge’s escape from slavery and her former ‘owner’ President George Washington. Title derives from a direct quote of Washington’s correspondence with proxies he sent to recapture Judge.
36 x 48 x 2 inches
Acquired by City of Kent, WA art collection
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
The Ingratitude of the Girl (detail)
Artist’s conception of the formerly-enslaved Oney Judge (there are no known images of her). Her image rests above a reproduction of the ‘runaway slave’ ad President George Washington had printed in a Philadelphia newspaper, in his attempts to have Judge recaptured. Collage inspired by the book “Never Caught” by Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
The Idea of Freedom
Collage on panel; third in “The Manticore and the Mermaid” collage series retelling the story of President George Washington’s attempts to recapture Oney Judge, one of the few enslaved people to escape from Washington permanently.
36 x 48 x 2.5 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
The Idea of Freedom (detail)
A reimagining of Ona Maria (Oney) Judge as a mermaid who has slipped out of George Washington’s grasp. Text culled from another source suggests an argument about her labor. Collage inspired by the book “Never Caught” by Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
Windfall
Collage on paper
11 x 14 x 1 inches framed
Acquired by Seattle Convention Center (Summit)
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Denier
20 x 16 x 2 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Rare & Exquisite #3 (CA)
36 x 48 x 10 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Rare & Exquisite #4 (SC)
36 x 48 x 10 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Rare & Exquisite #4 (detail)
Human/butterfly hybrid based on the dotted skipper butterfly, whose populations are endangered in South Carolina, threatened along the Atlantic seaboard
Rare & Exquisite #2 (KY)
36 x 48 x 10 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Rare & Exquisite #2 (detail)
Human/butterfly hybrid based on the regal fritillary butterfly, whose populations are threatened in Kentucky and extinct in Connecticut
Overreach
10 inches in diameter
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Safe/ Not Safe (Port Gamble)
11 x 14 x 1 inches
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Safe/ Not Safe (Bothell)
11 x 14 x 1 inches
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
TODAY, America, Today
Collage on hardback book cover
16.5 x 18.5 x 1.25 inches
In private collection
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
One Nation, Under Reconstruction
20 x 16 x 2 inches
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Waterfront Evolution
12 x 16.25 x 1 inches
In SPU Portable Art Collection/ The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Relatively Progressive
10 x 13 x 1 inches framed
In City of Shoreline (WA) Permanent Art Collection. Collage memorializes civil rights martyr Edwin T. Pratt.
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
The Blacks, They See Race in Everything
12.25 x 15.5 inches framed
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Grab the Honey
13.5 x 15.5 inches framed
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Tourist
9 x 12 x 1 inches
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Marooned
9 x 12 x 1 inches
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Arraché (Torn Away)
Safe/ Not Safe (PDX)
11 x 14 x 1 inches
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Safe/ Not Safe (Hayward)
11 x 14 x 1 inches
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Safe/ Not Safe (Semiahmoo)
11 x 14 x 1 inches
In private collection
Photo credit: Lisa Myers Bulmash
Exposure
Was It Something I Said?
Was It Something I Said? (detail)
Janus: Restless
28 x 14 x 1.5 inches (framed)
Photo credit: Art & Soul Ballard
Truth Window #1
25 x 14 x 1.25 inches framed
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Truth Window #2
25 x 14 x 1.25 inches framed
Photo credit: Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction
Frozen
26.25 x 14.25 x 1.5 inches (framed)
Photo credit: Art & Soul Ballard
Skin
26.25 x 14.25 x 1.25 inches framed
Photo credit: Art & Soul Ballard
We See
Janus: Value