Ellen Gallagher: Preserve / Des Moines Art Center

Identifier:REF.EC.2012

Dimensions:78 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Copyright dates:2001

text by: Jeff Fleming, Robin D. G. Kelley, Catherine de Zegher

Subjects: Contemporary, drawings, exhibitions, sculpture

Description:Catalogue of an exhibition held at Des Moines Art Center, May 26-Aug. 6, 2001; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Nov. 17, 2001- Jan. 27, 2002; and the Drawing Center, New York, Mar. 2-Apr. 6, 2002. Introduction by Susan Lubowsky Talbott. Includes three essays--"Ellen Gallagher: Preserve" by Jeff Fleming, "Fugitives from a Chain Store" by Robin D. G. Kelley, and "The Grid as Playground or the Creativity of Limits" by Catherine de Zegher. Also includes the artist's biography. "In Preserve, Gallagher depicts American history through images derived from minstrel shows. Through an accumulation of lips, eyes, and upturned hair, she exhumes and liberates historical caricatures of the black body. Her new wooden sculpture, laboriously covered with bits of rubber and then painted, is reminiscent of a playground jungle gym. The sculpture, along with a series of recent drawings, leads into an investigation of race and the structure of visual information."--from the introductory essay by Jeff Fleming