Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth16 December 1965
CountryUnited States of America
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
change mean
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
work
Regardless of your support, you need to make work.
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There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.
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When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.