Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Highway Gothic, 2017. 16 mm film installation with 70 mm film and textile cyanotype banners. © Edgar Cleijne. © Ellen Gallagher. Courtesy the artists, Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian.
The Power Plant
231 Queen's Quay West
Toronto, Ontario
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Curator
Carolin Köchling
Encompassing paintings, drawings and films, Ellen Gallagher’s first exhibition in Canada, Nu-Nile, reveals Gallagher’s practice of synthesizing a wide range of pictorial traditions in order to counter static representations of black people in culture, and critically examines and reimagines the figure-ground protocols circulating within the canon of Western painting.
Editors' Comment
A great opportunity for Canadian audiences to see Rotterdam-based, Black American artist Ellen Gallagher’s work—both recent collaborative projects with Edgar Cleijne and older painting and pieces from renowned series DeLuxe (2005) and Negroes Battling in a Cave (2016).