Ellen gallagher biography
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Ellen Gallagher
American painter (born )
Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, )[2] 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.
Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video.
Ellen gallagher paintings
Some of her pieces refer to issues of race, and may combine formality with racial stereotypes and depict "ordering principles" society imposes.
Background and education
Gallagher was born on December 16, , in Providence, Rhode Island.
Referred to as African American,[3] she is of biracial ethnicity; her father's heritage was from Cape Verde, in Western Africa (but he was born in the United States), and her mother's background was Caucasian Irish Catholic.[4] Gallagher's mother was a working-class Irish-American and her father was a professional boxer.[5]
In Rhode Island, Gallagher attended Moses Brown, an elite, Quaker college preparatory school.