My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something,… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
