Ellen Gallagher

I can't really remember how i get from dada to ellen gallagher, but i really like her work, they way she covers the faces on paper with paint to give the impression of a mask is really weird, plus the photo's of it make the paint just look like an ordinary paper collage instead of an overpainting.
Gallagher's influences include the paintings of Agnes Martin and the repetitive writings of Gertrude Stein.



i might try to recreate the effects shes put onto her...paintings? collages? i dont really know what to call them, because they seem to be a mixture of the two.
I like the fact that the eyes are cut from the portraits aswell, it kind of takes away the sense of identification from the person, take the persons eyes nd they seem to lose their identity and their sense of being.

She was in the Tate in 2013 #, but i can't remember if i saw her work or not, when i saw her work on google it definatly jogged a memory of seeing it somewhere before, but i guess i'll never know.