Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who donโt make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.
Ellen GallagherI like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.
Ellen GallagherThis idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.
Ellen GallagherThe things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.
Ellen Gallagher