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

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable…

- Ellen Gallagher

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

- Ellen Gallagher

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

- Ellen Gallagher

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this …

- Ellen Gallagher

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 to underst…

- Ellen Gallagher