Ellen Gallagher was born on December 16,1965 and is an American artist.
25 Facts About Ellen Gallagher
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Ellen Gallagher's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums.
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Ellen Gallagher's media include painting, works on paper, film and video.
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Ellen Gallagher's mother was a working-class Irish-American and her father was a professional boxer.
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In Rhode Island, Ellen Gallagher attended Moses Brown, an elite, Quaker college preparatory school.
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At sixteen, Ellen Gallagher entered her first year at Oberlin College in Ohio and studied writing.
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Ellen Gallagher did not finish her education at Oberlin College and ended up joining a carpenters' union in Seattle.
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Ellen Gallagher is an abstract painter and multimedia artist creating minimalist work with subject narratives.
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Ellen Gallagher's influences include the paintings of Agnes Martin and the repetitive writings of Gertrude Stein.
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Some of Ellen Gallagher's work involves repetitively modifying advertising found in African American focused publications such as Ebony, Sepia, and Our World, including images from Valmor Products ads, as in her DeLuxe series.
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Ellen Gallagher used oils to combine different sheets together and add texture.
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Ellen Gallagher pushed the limit between two and three dimensions in her series.
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Ellen Gallagher used new technologies to create plates in many layers.
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The Darkroom collective allowed Ellen Gallagher to explore her talent and apply her culture as an African-American woman to her work.
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Ellen Gallagher made Wiglette from Deluxe 2004 to 2005, which contains a collection of vintage beauty ads from the 1930s to 70s intended for black American women.
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Ellen Gallagher was inspired by the New Negro movement as well as modernist abstraction.
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Ellen Gallagher combines formality with the racial stereotypes to depict the "ordering principles" society imposes.
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Ellen Gallagher uses golden tones to portray the racial binary in society.
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Ellen Gallagher's media includes paintings, works on paper, film and video.
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Ellen Gallagher has made innovative use of materials, such as creating a unique variation on scrimshaw by carving images into the surface of thick sheets of watercolor paper and drawing with ink, watercolor and pencil.
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Ellen Gallagher creates different sea creatures to symbolize slave ancestors who died during the transatlantic slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean.
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In 1995, Ellen Gallagher's work was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale in 2003.
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Ellen Gallagher is based in the United States and the Netherlands.
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Ellen Gallagher's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and institutions including:.
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Ellen Gallagher's work is held in many permanent collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Goetz Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Studio Museum in Harlem, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet, Sammlung Goetz and the Centre Georges Pompidou.