{"id":31170,"date":"2013-05-19T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31170"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T22:09:44","slug":"ellen-gallagher-wigs-waterworlds-and-wile-e-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31170","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2013-05-07<\/p>\n

Bim Adewunmi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adverts from black magazines, Plasticine<\/a>, eyeballs \u2013 in the work of Ellen Gallagher, it’s all woven together into something new. Bim Adewunmi visits her chaotic Rotterdam studio<\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout our interview, Ellen Gallagher<\/a> makes frequent trips to a large bookcase on the other side of her studio, pulling out items she thinks are relevant and interesting. By the time I leave, I have a list of names written down on a piece of paper: people from the realms of visual art and literature whose work Gallagher implores me to seek out.<\/p>\n

Overlooking the port of Rotterdam<\/a>, her studio is a whitewashed space bathed in light, with vast windows and occasional glimpses of passing clouds via skylights. It is busy and not especially tidy: the artist’s red, paint-spattered desk is cluttered with books, little knives and intricate paper cutouts. You get the impression, however, that she knows where things are. On the walls are a couple of newer paintings: abstract, blue, serene. On a low table, there are proofs of the catalogue for AxME, her new show at the Tate Modern<\/a> in London. Its title is a play on the fictional Acme corporation<\/a> that supplied Wile E. Coyote<\/a> with mail-order gadgets in the cartoon Roadrunner<\/a>, as well as a reference to the African-American vernacular for “Ask me”.<\/p>\n

Born in Rhode Island<\/a> in 1965, to a black father of Cape Verdean extraction and a white Irish Catholic mum, Gallagher studied writing before attending art school in Boston. She is probably best known in the UK for Coral Cities, which appeared at Tate Liverpool in 2007. The show featured Watery Ecstatic, a series of paintings inspired by the myth of Drexciya, or the Black Atlantis \u2013 an underwater city populated by the descendents of Africans thrown off slave ships. Gallagher’s fantastical lost souls and eerie sealife fascinated the writer Jackie Kay<\/a>, who called her work “jazz on a huge canvas”. The playwright Bonnie Greer<\/a> is a big fan, too…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote The Guardian 2013-05-07 Bim Adewunmi Adverts from black magazines, Plasticine, eyeballs \u2013 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,25],"tags":[8997,4076,2103],"class_list":["post-31170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-bim-adewunmi","tag-ellen-gallagher","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50649,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170\/revisions\/50649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}