Ellen Gallagher: Lips Sink Paul Noble The Visual Candy paintings allude

The Visual Candy paintings allude to art historical movements such as Impressionism

conceptualizing his practice relative to the media landscape that inspired it

harnessing the human capacity to imagine absent forms through symbols and pictures

while summering on the Greek island of Hydra

this exhibition—the first survey of prints by the artist—traced the evolution of Wood’s unique visual vocabulary through his printing practice

Ellen Gallagher: Lips Sink Paul Noble The Visual Candy paintings alludeBy 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