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Ellen Gallagher (born 1965)
Two paintings: Paper Cup, 1996, ink and paper on canvas; and Untitled, 1998, oil and enamel on paper on canvas.
American artist Ellen Gallagher has Irish and African-American origins. Key subjects that have shaped the texture and subject matter of her work from the beginning are the writing of Gertrude Stein, the vaudeville tradition of black minstrels, science fiction and advertising targeted at African Americans. From these she has created a painterly language which has taken her into the vanguard of modernism. In an early series Gallagher’s work envelopes the viewer in a textured, apparently abstract surface which is actually a historic cosmology of repeated shapes – the rubbery lips, bow ties and rolling eyes of the vaudeville minstrels. The work expresses on the one hand how to be in the present, pushing forward the traditions and boundaries of painting; on the other, it reminds the viewer that however insignificant they may become, designations from the past continue to multiply and form part of the texture of the world today.
Paper Cup 1996
Ink and paper on canvas
2135 x 1830 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© Ellen Gallagher
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