Ellen Gallagher: deLuxe

In this group of sixty works, the debut of an important portfolio by a major artist, Ellen Gallagher modifies and elaborates illustrations and advertisements culled from the pages of popular mid-century African-American magazines such as Ebony and Sepia. Her work defies easy description as it explores the very notion of transformation and challenges the conventional assumptions we make about beauty and color, and about printmaking itself. In deLuxe Gallagher continues, as she has in much of her work, to entice the viewer into dialogues that investigate and reinvigorate our contemporary ideas about race, identity, and historical traditions.

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Ellen Gallagher: deLuxe