<p>Ellen Gallagher's large-scale works use repetitive forms and both common and unorthodox materials to create subtly layered surfaces. Her elaborate and labor-intensive method of building figures and forms presents loaded imagery—often uncomfortable racial signifiers—in ways that disrupt predictable readings. In <em>Untitled</em> Gallagher built up patterns melded out of rubber to articulate what she refers to as a fantasy rendering of an African, delineated by a system of elegant yet abbreviated signs indicating hair, skin, tattoos, and jewelry.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1999
- Dimensions
- 305 × 244 cm (120 × 96 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
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Lips Sink
2016 · Lithograph and etching in artist's frame
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2007 · Plasticine and aluminium
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2006 · Oil paint, ink, paper, polymer, salt and gold leaf on canvas
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2005 · Watercolor over graphite, with collage and selected varnishing, with cutting and skinning on white wove paper
DeLuxe
2004 · Portfolio of sixty with photogravure, aquatint, screenprint, lithograph, etching, and drypoint; some with modelling clay, laser-cut, collage, oil, gouache, pomade, metallic foil, graphite, varnish, acrylic medium, toy eyeballs, chine collé, acrylic, tattoo engraving, embossing, velvet, glitter, crystals, gold leaf, toy ice cube, and plastic sheet additions
Detective Training
2004 · Laser cut paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1999
- Dimensions
- 305 × 244 cm (120 × 96 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1999-016144
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified