{"id":31186,"date":"2013-05-20T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31186"},"modified":"2013-05-20T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T02:46:08","slug":"ellen-gallagher-at-tate-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31186","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/art\/art-reviews\/10030442\/Ellen-Gallagher-at-Tate-Modern.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n2013-05-02<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/alastair-smart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alastair Smart<\/a><\/strong>, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph<\/p>\n<p><em>In this solid <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retrospective#Art\" target=\"_blank\">retrospective<\/a>, America&#8217;s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I\u2019d make a \u00a32 monthly donation for their welfare or anything.<\/p>\n<p>Rather that today\u2019s artist is expected to produce work that\u2019s not just visually striking but conceptually clever. Brains must match looks, and woe betide anyone whose art isn\u2019t deemed \u201cdeep\u201d enough to inspire reams of post-structuralist theory.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/ellen-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Gallagher<\/a>, now the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=31180\" target=\"_blank\">Tate retrospective<\/a>, negotiates this tightrope better than most. Drawing on her mixed-race heritage (with a father from the Cape Verde Islands), she infuses works of minimalist abstraction with subtle references to black history.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watery Ecstatic<\/em>, her ongoing series of watercolours and incised paper collages, features all manner of delicately-rendered marine life: from eels, jellyfish and seaweed to fantastical sea monsters. Their intricacy recalls that of old whalers\u2019 scrimshaw \u2013 with an unexpected twist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/art\/art-reviews\/10030442\/Ellen-Gallagher-at-Tate-Modern.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America&#8217;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\u2019d make a \u00a32 monthly donation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,10],"tags":[14732,4076,7738],"class_list":["post-31186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-alastair-smart","tag-ellen-gallagher","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31186","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=31186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}