I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.
Ellen GallagherAt times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.
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 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 Gallagher