Leah Tumerman

Leah Tumerman makes paintings on canvas, murals on walls, and drawings on paper. Her work explores what it means to be a woman through the lens of sisterhood and community, identity and belonging. And sometimes, loneliness. Her female figures show up in galleries and city streets, hung on walls and painted on the sides of buildings. She works out of a studio space in Oakland, CA.

“I decided that my work needed to reflect what is most important about being alive, about being a woman, about being a human. That needed to be very clear in the pieces that I contribute to the world. My call to arms was to ‘find my voice.’” 

“My me-ness is a person who looks at who I am and where I am now and says, ‘this is good. I acknowledge the fact that I see something down the road or that I am hungry for something, but this is good, where I am.’”