Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Ellen Gallagher
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An in-depth conversation on the artist’s big influences, from Keith Haring to Moby Dick
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Artist Ellen Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1965 to parents of Cape Verdian and Irish Catholic origin. Growing up as a biracial woman and identifying as an African American, Gallagher’s racial politics are evident in her works. She infuses imagery from an array of sources; nature, anthropology, social history, art and myth,…
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The artist, who divides her time between New York and Rotterdam, and whose work resides in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, has long explored questions of history and power in works that straddle the gray area between figurative and abstract.
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Brilliant Ideas: Artist Ellen Gallagher Bloomberg Business 2015-09-14 “Brilliant Ideas” looks at the most exciting and acclaimed artists at work in the world today. On this episode, Ellen Gallagher talks to Bloomberg. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Afrofuturism’s Others Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1 9TG Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Deluxe 2004–5 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each Tate Photography © Tate Ellen Gallagher’s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence…
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Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America’s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart. I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I’d make a £2 monthly donation for…
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Ellen Gallagher: AxME Tate Modern: Exhibition Bankside London SE1 9TG 2013-05-01 through 2013-09-01 Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists to have emerged from North America since the mid-1990s. Her gorgeously intricate and highly imaginative works are realised with a wealth of virtuoso detail and wit. This is her first major solo…
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Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote The Guardian 2013-05-07 Bim Adewunmi Adverts from black magazines, Plasticine, eyeballs – in the work of Ellen Gallagher, it’s all woven together into something new. Bim Adewunmi visits her chaotic Rotterdam studio Throughout our interview, Ellen Gallagher makes frequent trips to a large bookcase on the other…
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60 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman The New York Times 2005-01-23 Edward Lewine Ellen Gallagher dabbed a swirl of gray watercolor onto the delicate pencil drawing she had just sketched of a furry hamster. Late December sunlight radiated through the windows at Two Palms Press, the SoHo printmaking studio where she has spent…
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“Double Natural” Yale University Department of African American Studies 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 2013-01-24, 11:45-13:15 EST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Hayden Visiting Artist Yale University Art Gallery Ellen Gallagher breaks the boundaries of traditional art by using materials and found images in unexpected ways. Her work often looks at how African Americans…