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Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher

TRACES: Ellen Gallagher

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Ellen Gallagher (16/12/1965- ), who builds multi-layered paintings that pivot between the natural world, mythology and history. Her painting process involves undoing and reforming trains of thought often over long periods of time and across linked bodies of works. This column is …

Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2022. In Ellen Gallagher — All of No Man’s Land is Ours, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The George Economou Collection. Photo: Peter Tijhuis

ART CITIES: Amsterdam-Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher builds multi-layered paintings that pivot between the natural world, mythology and history. Her painting process involves undoing and reforming trains …

Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2019, Oil, ink, gold leaf, and paper on canvas, 248 × 201.9 cm, © Ellen Gallagher. Photo: Thomas Lannes, © Ellen Gallagher, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART-PRESENTATION: Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher’s work explores issues of race, identity and transformation, referencing historical and contemporary subjects that include modernist abstraction, marine biology and …