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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0006789
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Work Title (display):
They Could Still Serve
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
2001
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2010-05-24
Work Creator (display):
Ellen Gallagher (American, born 1965)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
American painter, collagist and draughtsman. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Skowhegan School of Arts, ME, graduating in 1993. Using very minimal means, her pictures can be viewed in both straightforward formal terms and in terms of a political and culturally specific visual language linked to her identity as an African American woman (see fig. [not available online]). Her characteristic works consist of lined paper (of the kind used by school children) glued onto canvas and superimposed with images of eyes and lips. These symbolic body parts, which function as her trademark motifs, are taken from the American minstrel tradition; she has described them as evidence of language in motion, an example of the process that creates stereotypes. In Untitled (1996; priv. col., see 1998 Ikon Gal. exh. cat., p. 21), for example, the eyes and lips flood rhythmically across the lined picture surface in a process of aggregation. Although she uses a variety of structures and devices in her paintings, through a process of accumulation and subtraction the body parts are repeated in rhythms that suggest entrapment and diffusion. In Untitled (1998; priv. col., see 1998 Ikon Gal. exh. cat., p. 25) the lips gather as white imprints over a tainted green smudge, a pair of eyes trapped in the centre of each pasted page. Interested in the cool aggression of such performers as Bert Williams and Miles Davies, Gallagher's work presents itself as a simple, Post-Minimal practice that retains hidden depth. (Oxford Art Online accessed 1020-06-01)
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
Blackface entertainers
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Blackface entertainers
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Work Subject:
racism
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racism
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Work Subject:
identity
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identity
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Work Subject:
race (concept)
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race (concept)
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
pigment and synthetic polymer on paper mounted on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
304.8 cm (H) x 243.8 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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