Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe, 2004-2005. Photogravure, etching, aquatint, and drypoints with lithography, screenprint, embossing, tattoo-machine engraving, laser cutting, and chine collé; and additions of Plasticine, paper collage, enamel, varnish, gouache, pencil, oil, polymer, watercolor, pomade, velvet, glitter, crystals, foil paper, gold leaf, toy eyeballs, and imitation ice cubes, Sixty parts, each: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (34.3 × 26.7 cm), Overall: 84 × 176 in. (213.4 × 447 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian. © Ellen Gallagher and Two Palms Press
This important three-day conference led by the Hutchins Center for African American Research and institutions of higher-education explores new ideas and research on imaging of the black body. The ICA will be a participant in the conference, which includes recent scholarship on several artists represented in the ICA Collection, including Nari Ward and Ellen Gallagher. Open to the public. To learn more about the conference schedule or to register, visit blackportraitures.info.