BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

28 Ellen Gallagher ( 1965, Rhode Island) is an American artist who works on a wide field of creation - painting, works on paper, film and video. She employed a variety of techniques to transform the advertisements, combining traditional printing processes of etching and lithography with recent developments in digital technology. Gallagher deploys art partly to rescue those conflicted con- sumers with interventions such as covering up models’ faces and whiting out or cutting out eyes, emphasising the complexities surrounding the construction of identity, specifically in relation to race and gender. In the beginning of 1990’s, Gallagher earned a degree in fine arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. A couple of decades ago, Ellen Gallagher was a standard-bearer of identity politics, and her angry paintings were shot through with the declaration: made by an African American woman. Her most famous pieces are her grid-like collages - eXelento (2004), Afrylic, (2004), and DeLuxe, (2005), which employed techniques of photogravure, spit-bite, collage, cutting, scratching, silkscreen, offset lithography and hand-building. Ellen Gallagher has been honored by American Academy Award in Art (2000), she won Medal of Honor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001), among others. Gallagher’s works are part of private collections and presti- gious museums - Goetz Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sammlung Goetz and Centre Georges Pompidou. Modem Women’s Fall-Winter 2014-2015 Covers by ELLEN GALLAGHER CONTEMPORARY ARTIST 2014