{"id":63593,"date":"2022-03-29T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63593"},"modified":"2022-04-01T00:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:12:03","slug":"a-brush-with-ellen-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63593","title":{"rendered":"A brush with&#8230; Ellen Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2021\/06\/30\/a-brush-with-ellen-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A brush with&#8230; Ellen Gallagher<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week in Art<\/a><br \/>\n2021-06-30<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2021\/06\/30\/a-brush-with-ellen-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 95%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/cxgd3urn\/production\/59fa675661193d0caeedf6fc8aa64a5f66cce08c-3508x2339.jpg?w=1920&amp;h=1280&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 95%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_Gallagher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen Gallagher<\/a> in her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotterdam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotterdam<\/a> studio <em>Photo: Philippe Vogelenzang Courtesy the artist and Hauser &amp; Wirth<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/5f243899beb8e05834e414d6\/60db921fea345f0012302bf4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>An in-depth conversation on the artist&#8217;s big influences, from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keith_Haring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keith Haring<\/a> to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moby-Dick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moby Dick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>A brush with&#8230;<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benlukeart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Luke<\/a> talks to the American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_Gallagher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen Gallagher<\/a> about her life and work by exploring her greatest cultural influences. Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Providence,_Rhode_Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Providence, Rhode Island<\/a> in 1965, Gallagher studied at Oberlin College in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ohio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio<\/a>, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston<\/a> and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine<\/a>. She now lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotterdam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotterdam<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netherlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netherland<\/a>s. Much of Gallagher&#8217;s parents&#8217; ancestry\u2014in particular her Black father who is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Verde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cape Verde<\/a> archipelago off the west coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa<\/a>\u2014defines the territory of her practice, which relates to the culture and language of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black diaspora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though primarily working in painting and drawing, Gallagher has also worked in sculpture, film and animation. Her early style appears <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minimalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minimalist<\/a> and spare from a distance but, up close, one observes intricate drawings of eyes, lips and wigs, which Gallagher has described as \u201cthe disembodied <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ephemera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ephemera<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minstrel_show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minstrelsy<\/a>\u201d\u2014the racist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackface<\/a> entertainment common in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/19th_century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C19th<\/a> onwards. In the early 2000s, she used cut-out advertisements from Black culture magazines and transformed them with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasticine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plasticine<\/a>, making sculptural reliefs that were often imprinted with witty or incisive symbols and imagery. Many of her paintings refer to the sea and allude to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrofuturism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afrofuturist<\/a> myth of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drexciya_(2010_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drexciya: a Black Atlantis<\/a> at the bottom of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantic Ocean<\/a>, supposedly populated with the children of the mothers of enslaved African women who were thrown\u2014or threw themselves\u2014overboard during their forced journey across the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Passage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Passage<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read and\/or listen to the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2021\/06\/30\/a-brush-with-ellen-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An in-depth conversation on the artist&#8217;s big influences, from Keith Haring to Moby Dick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2850,1245,459,13743,8,6940,20],"tags":[33355,33353,4076,33354],"class_list":["post-63593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-audio","category-biography","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-a-brush-with","tag-ben-luke","tag-ellen-gallagher","tag-the-week-in-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593","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=63593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63634,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593\/revisions\/63634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}