Ellen Gallagher: Master Printer Craig Zammiello
Master Printer Craig Zammiello and artist Ellen Gallagher discuss their working relationship during the process of creating DeLuxe (2004–05), a suite of 60 individual works employing both traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques.
Credits
Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera & Sound: Mead Hunt and Mark Mandler. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Ellen Gallagher. Special Thanks: Craig Zammiello of Two Palms Press, New York.
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Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like Ebony and Our World. Initially drawn to wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure, she later realized that it was the accompanying language that attracted her. Gallagher began to bring these “narratives” into her paintings—making them function through the characters of the advertisements, as a kind of chart of lost worlds. Although the work has often been interpreted strictly as an examination of race, Gallagher also suggests a more formal reading with respect to materials, processes, and insistences. From afar, the work appears abstract and minimal; upon closer inspection, googly eyes, reconfigured wigs, tongues, and lips of minstrel caricatures multiply in detail.
Printmaking
“eXelento” and “DeLuxe”
Artist Ellen Gallagher discusses her process and how she came to use collaged paper in her paintings.
