January 3, 2018
2-TIMES • Art
Ellen Gallagher,
‘Accidental Records’
@ Hauser & Wirth
—
“Animate and
inanimate, the
sea itself is an
accidental record
—
Of what is seen
and not seen;
what is cut out
and what is left
behind. It obscures
as it reveals,
intangible & yet
utterly sensual...”
The exhibition:
For her first solo
with Hauser & Wirth
in Los Angeles, US-
born Ellen Gallagher
presents a suite of
new works, including
paintings & drawings
that extend her
exploration of the
complex histories of
the Black Atlantic
and the afterlives of
the Middle Passage.
Gallagher questions
accepted geographies;
the layered surfaces
of her works become
a kind of reckoning,
evoking, in the artist’s
words, ‘the way sailors
mark their location at
sea, determined by
return.’
2-TIMES' highlights:
· Aquajujidsu, 2017
· Odalisque, 2014
On view at:
Hauser & Wirth
—
901 E 3rd St,
Los Angeles,
CA 90013,
United States.
Closes:
January 28, 2018.