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Bouffant Pride
2003
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965)
Drawings
Bouffant Pride, 2003. Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965). Collage of photogravures, plasticine, paint, ink, and found objects; sheet: 34.3 x 26.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Judith and James Saks in memory of Lynn and Dr. Joseph Tomarkin Endowment 2003.340 © Ellen Gallagher. Courtesy Gagosian. Ellen Gallagher's work addresses the history of African American stereotypes. In this collage, the artist appropriated an advertisement for glamorous wigs from a 1960s issue of Ebony, a magazine geared toward African Americans. Using plasticine, toy eyeballs, paint, and ink, she exaggerated and completely transformed the images that once promised to beautify the magazine's average reader. Ellen Gallagher was drawn to wig advertisements like the one used in this collage due to their grid-like structure.
- Maker/Artist
- Gallagher, Ellen
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- collage of photogravures, plasticine, paint, ink, and found objects
- Medium
- collage, photogravures, plasticine, paint, ink, found, objects
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 34.3 x 26.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2003.340
- Credit Line
- Judith and James Saks in memory of Lynn and Dr. Joseph Tomarkin Endowment
- Exhibitions
- Needful Things: Recent Multiples, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings, Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print
- Rights Statement
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