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  1. Setting With Her Songs From The Deep by Rosalind Nzinga Vaughn -Nichol, Image 1.

    Rosalind Nzinga Vaughn -Nichol

    Setting With Her Songs From The Deep

    Mixed media collage, acrylic, handmade paper on canvas

    20 x 16 x 1.5 in (50.8 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm)

    $3,200

  2. Stronger Together - 2024 by Rosalind Nzinga Vaughn -Nichol, Image 1.

    Rosalind Nzinga Vaughn -Nichol

    Stronger Together - 2024

    Mixed media collage, acrylic, handmade paper on canvas

    12 x 12 x 2 in (30.48 x 30.48 x 5.08 cm)

    $2,500

  3. Untitled by Rosemary Ollison, Image 1.

    Rosemary Ollison

    Untitled

    Repurposed cloth

    $2,200

  4. Untitled by Rosemary Ollison, Image 1.

    Rosemary Ollison

    Untitled

    Repurposed fabric and leather

    $800

  5. Untitled by Rosemary Ollison, Image 1.

    Rosemary Ollison

    Untitled

    Repurposed leather, cloth and fabric paint

    $2,800

  6. Untitled by Rosemary Ollison, Image 1.

    Rosemary Ollison

    Untitled

    Repurposed leather, cloth and fabric paint

    $2,800

  7. Blind in One Eye and Can’t See Out the Other by Rosemary Ollison, Image 1.

    Rosemary Ollison

    Blind in One Eye and Can’t See Out the Other

    Repurposed leather, cloth and fabric paint

    58 x 48 in (147.32 x 121.92 cm)

    $2,800

  8. Mama by Rosemary Ollison, Image 1.

    Rosemary Ollison

    Mama

    Repurposed leather and thread

    120 x 168 in (304.8 x 426.72 cm)

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About the artist

Rosemary Ollison

Rosemary Ollison (b. 1942) is a self-taught artist who lives in Milwaukee, WI. When she was 16 years old she moved to the midwest from a plantation in Arkansas. She began making art in 1994 while healing from an abusive marriage and for the next 29 years has explored numerous media. Most of her work deals thematically with her identity as a Black women and celebrates the power, individuality and mystique of women. Besides drawing, Rosemary collects glass, leather, bracelets, beads, bones and jewelry and repurposes these materials into sculptural works. She has redesigned her small apartment with layers of pattern, duct tape sculptures, curtains of beads and woven leather, crazy quilts and inventive drawings. She also designs clothing and writes poetry. Ollison says she creates in dialog with God: “When I am creating I am satisfied, I am free! I no longer just exist, I am alive!”

Portrait Society first presented her work in a major exhibition in 2016, which included a room-sized installation that was a recreation of her living room, with a four-channel video by Ted Brusubardis.

PSG has presented her work at the Outsider Art Fair, New York, each year since 2017. A solo exhibition of her work was presented by Shrine Gallery, NYC, in 2022. Her work has also been shown at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, the Saint Kate Art Hotel where she designed a room, Racine Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art (Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI), UWM Union Gallery, (Milwaukee), Indianapolis Public Library; and Walker’s Point Center for the Arts. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend, WI), Lynden Sculpture Garden, Northwestern Mutual Insurance, Chipstone Foundation, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She was awarded a Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in 2018 and was named Milwaukee Artist of the Year. Rosemary Ollison's work is in the private collections of David Byrne, KAWS, and Joyce Pensato.