Object number2004.32
Duke
Date2004
Artist
Ellen Gallagher
(American, 1965-)
Printer
Two Palms Press, New York
Publisher
Two Palms Press, New York
CultureAmerican
MediumPhotogravure with laser cutting, collage, and hair pomade on thick buff paper
EditionPrinter's proof 3 from an edition of 20 plus 5 printer's proofs
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 x 10 in. (37.5 x 25.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Milton Bellin Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
SignedOn verso, signed lower left corner in pencil: Ellen Gallagher
InscribedOn verso, by artist, lower center edge in pencil: PP 3/5; lower right edge: 2004
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPresses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 13 - March 19, 2006; The Reflections: Portrayals of and by African Americans, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 10 - August 19, 2018;
In Translation: Prints Across Media, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 28 - September 18, 2022
Label TextSimilar to Pop artists, Gallagher repurposes imagery from advertisements and popular culture to consider ideas around desire, race, and conformity. In this photogravure she appropriated postwar advertisements for Duke hair pomade targeted towards African Americans, suggesting the role such products played in creating culturally-defined standards of beauty. For Gallagher, such products revealed anxieties about assimilation and integration alongside hopes for self-determination. By applying actual pomade as a three-dimensional element, she blurred the boundary between print and sculpture.
- John P. Murphy, Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings
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