Ellen Gallagher

"Mr. Terrific"

"Bad Skin"

"Millie Christine"

I saw these pieces by Ellen Gallagher in a modern art museum in Stockholm and I don't think I've seen anything like this before! A lot of the pieces were inspired by old advertisements she had collected from old black and white magazines. Most of them were for cosmetic products. She has left the adverts in the background and manipulated them by covering some bits using a lot of different techniques and materials (paint,ink,plasticine etc.). In most of them the faces of the people are covered so you can't see what the people really look like. What first caught my attention was how in most of her work she had painted the eyes entirelly white. More Ellen..