Ellen Gallagher: Lips Sink Paul Noble and mastery of a painter

and mastery of a painter in his prime

while summering on the Greek island of Hydra

from the collection of Kenwood House in London

which premiered at the artist’s solo exhibition Amalgam at the Palais de Tokyo

this limited-edition set of six bread and butter plates highlights the artist’s Banality series

Ellen Gallagher: Lips Sink Paul Noble and mastery of a painterBy fusing narrative modes including poetry, film, music, and collage, Ellen Gallagher recalibrates the tensions between reality and fantasy. She has found inspiration in age old oceanic myths and stories, including Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, about two elusive mammoths (one a very real whale and the other a very figurative truth). In 2016, Gallagher created the lithograph Lips Sink, depicting the storys famous surviving artifact, Queequegs