Ellen Gallagher: AxME

Ellen Gallagher, Wiglette from DeLuxe, 2004 Courtesy of Tate, © Ellen GallagherThe work of American artist Ellen Gallagher is as fluid, and oneiric, as the sea to which she repeatedly returns. The thin, wavy lines of penmanship paper make up the base of most of her paintings, while strange, primordial sea creatures, wild-looking Ahabs, and scrimshaw-like etchings variously float or emerge on the surface. Gallagher, who has her first major retrospective at Tate Modern this Spring, has for ye...