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Artist: Colleen Coleman (Brooklyn, NY)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2024 | Medium: Digital Collage | Dimensions: 30" x 20" inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Collage, for me, is an act of refusal and reconstruction. It interrupts the authority of the original image, especially those shaped by histories that excluded, distorted, or erased Black life, and insists on a new order. By cutting, layering, and reassembling, I claim agency over narratives that were never meant to hold me. I place my own image in dialogue with archival materials, not to insert myself into history, but to expose its gaps and reconfigure its possibilities.
This work is rooted in cultural reclamation and personal survival. It draws from diasporic memory, where fragments, images, symbols, gestures, are often all that remain. Collage allows me to honor those fragments while imagining what was lost, stolen, or never recorded. It becomes both a method of repair and a space for speculation.
There is grief in the work, but also joy and defiance. The act of making is a way to sit with histories of violence while refusing to be defined by them. Through the presence of the Seven Sisters and other speculative elements, I introduce futures grounded in care, love, and transformation.
This piece belongs in this room because it holds a contradiction: rupture and healing, memory and invention. It asks viewers to reconsider what they think they know, and to recognize collage not just as a medium, but as a strategy for survival, resistance, and world-building.
About the Artist
I am a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, collage, installation, and performance to reimagine history and envision liberated futures. My practice is driven by a deep engagement with Black diasporic memory, where I use my own image alongside archival materials to question who is seen, remembered, and given agency. Through speculative narratives, often guided by the Seven Sisters, time-traveling beings who embody care and transformation, I create portals that connect past, present, and future.
Blue operates as a central language in my work, holding memory, spirit, and possibility. I am driven by a commitment to healing historical fractures and expanding collective imagination. My work invites viewers to witness, reflect, and participate in building new worlds grounded in love, resilience, and self-determination.
https://www.colleenlcolemanstudio.com/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Colleen Coleman (Brooklyn, NY)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2024 | Medium: Digital Collage | Dimensions: 30" x 20" inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Collage, for me, is an act of refusal and reconstruction. It interrupts the authority of the original image, especially those shaped by histories that excluded, distorted, or erased Black life, and insists on a new order. By cutting, layering, and reassembling, I claim agency over narratives that were never meant to hold me. I place my own image in dialogue with archival materials, not to insert myself into history, but to expose its gaps and reconfigure its possibilities.
This work is rooted in cultural reclamation and personal survival. It draws from diasporic memory, where fragments, images, symbols, gestures, are often all that remain. Collage allows me to honor those fragments while imagining what was lost, stolen, or never recorded. It becomes both a method of repair and a space for speculation.
There is grief in the work, but also joy and defiance. The act of making is a way to sit with histories of violence while refusing to be defined by them. Through the presence of the Seven Sisters and other speculative elements, I introduce futures grounded in care, love, and transformation.
This piece belongs in this room because it holds a contradiction: rupture and healing, memory and invention. It asks viewers to reconsider what they think they know, and to recognize collage not just as a medium, but as a strategy for survival, resistance, and world-building.
About the Artist
I am a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, collage, installation, and performance to reimagine history and envision liberated futures. My practice is driven by a deep engagement with Black diasporic memory, where I use my own image alongside archival materials to question who is seen, remembered, and given agency. Through speculative narratives, often guided by the Seven Sisters, time-traveling beings who embody care and transformation, I create portals that connect past, present, and future.
Blue operates as a central language in my work, holding memory, spirit, and possibility. I am driven by a commitment to healing historical fractures and expanding collective imagination. My work invites viewers to witness, reflect, and participate in building new worlds grounded in love, resilience, and self-determination.
https://www.colleenlcolemanstudio.com/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.