“DeLuxe” is based on pages from old magazines aimed at African American readers - “Sepia,” “Our World” and “Ebony.” Gallagher, 55, began collecting the magazines, which date from the 1930s to the 1970s, around 1996. It exists in an edition of 20, which makes it, at least nominally, a print, but all of the editions have complicated handmade elements added. The teeming work defies interpretation even as it dazzles.
Ellen Gallagher made “DeLuxe” in 2004-2005, although it came out of ideas she had been developing for almost a decade.
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