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Bouffant Pride

2003

Ellen Gallagher

(American, b. 1965)
Culture
America
Medium
collage of photogravures, plasticine, paint, ink, and found objects
Support
Rag paper
Measurements
Sheet: 34.3 x 26.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Judith and James Saks in memory of Lynn and Dr. Joseph Tomarkin Endowment 2003.340
Edition
20
Copyright
© Ellen Gallagher. Courtesy Gagosian.
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Ellen Gallagher was drawn to wig advertisements like the one used in this collage due to their grid-like structure.

Description

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.
Many photographs of faces of African Americans, placed in rows, with their eyes covered in white paint and their hair cut out to reveal yellow paper underneath. A larger photograph of a face is at the bottom left corner, looking in profile facing our right. Their eye is also covered in white paint but their hair is made up of a black, putty-like material with many toy eyeballs pressed into it.

Bouffant Pride

2003

Ellen Gallagher

(American, b. 1965)
America

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