This ten-painting America’s Guernica: Greenwood series commemorates the atrocity of the incident known by several names, the Tulsa Massacre, AKA, the Black Wall Street Massacre. The series was created on the 99th anniversary of Greenwood, which is perhaps now the most used description of the massacre.

It was created concurrently with the Charity Ann Series, which revisits a story passed down in the artist’s wife’s family for several generations. It imagines the day in Richmond, Virginia, that her enslaved third great-grandmother had two of her two daughters sold away.

The alternate title I considered for this series was The Audacity of Imagined Supremacy.