<I>Bouffant Pride</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2003
name: label: Created by
content: Ellen Gallagher, American, born 1965
label: Printed by
content: Two Palms Press, American, founded 1994
notes: label: Description
content: A mixed media work utilizing photogravure, collage, paint, and Plasticine, laser-cut, three-dimensionally modelled and layered. Covering the majority of the print's surface are small black and white portrait headshots arranged in a grid pattern resembling a photography contact sheet. Each small portrait features an individual, mostly women, shown from the neck upwards. The hair of each individual has been cut out, revealing yellow paper placed underneath to give the figures yellow/blonde hair. Each figure’s eyes have been painted over with white paint. Under each headshot is a rectangle of paper in either white or brown paper. These rectangles appear to be covering up letters in black type that are located under each headshot. In the bottom left corner of the page is a woman’s face in profile facing to the proper right. On her head is a bouffant hairstyle formed out of black Plasticine. Placed throughout the bouffant are small plastic googly-eyes. The woman’s visible right eye is painted over in white. The bottom right corner of the page is covered by several strips of brown paper similar to the small paper rectangles places under the headshots above. There is small black text in the bottom left corner that reads “BOUFFANT PRIDE.” The work is signed, dated and numbered 15/20 in pencil on the verso.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Beauty culture
label: Topic
content: Feminism
label: Topic
content: Hair
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Mass media
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2022.80.5
objectType: label: Type
content: collages
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Ellen Gallagher
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: mixed media : paint, plastic on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (34 × 26.4 cm)