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Delirious Hem
''Delirious Hem'' is a 1995 painting by Ellen Gallagher. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York, New York in the United States. Description A part of Gallagher's first major body of work, ''Delirious Hem'' comprises pieces of paper glued to a canvas with five penmanship paper sets glued on top. Dispersed around the canvas are numerous groups of tiny human lips that represent minstrel shows and the stereotypes they perpetuate about African Americans. Gallagher has signed the back of the piece, on the backboard. The inscription reads: "Ellen Gallagher 1995". History This painting debuted at Gallapher's seminal solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City in 1996. It was then sold to Norman Dubrow in 1996, who in turn donated it to the museum in 2010. Since acquiring it, the piece has traveled internationally for the Tate Modern curated exhibition "Ellen Gallagher: AxME." It traveled to the Tate in 2013, the Sara Hildén Art Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video. Some of her pieces refer to issues of Race (human categorization), race, and may combine formality with Ethnic stereotype, racial stereotypes and depict "ordering principles" society imposes. Background and education Gallagher was born on December 16, 1965, in Providence, Rhode Island. Referred to as African American, she is of Multiracial, biracial ethnicity; her father's heritage was from Cape Verde, in West Africa, Western Africa (but he was born in the United States), and her mother's background was Caucasian Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic. Gallagher's mother was a working-class Irish-American and her father was a professional boxer. In Rhode Island, Gallagher attended Moses Brown School, Moses Brown, an elite, Quaker college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |