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Ellen Gallagher has an extensive ongoing series called Watery Ecsatic that she started in 2001. The series consist of paintings, sculptural objects, and animations to depict the sea life through Afrofuturist aesthetics. (Suzanna Chan)

In her series Watery Estatic, Gallagher creates different  sea creatures to symbolize slave ancestors who died during the transatlantic slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean.

The series DeLuxe showed multiple creative methods, from photogravure to digital printing. Gallagher used oils to combine different sheets together and add texture. Gallagher pushed the limit between two and three dimensions in her series. She used new technologies to create plates in many layers. (Suzuki Sarah, 2011).

Wiglette from DeLuxe 2004–2005

Gallagher made this artwork portfolio which contains a collection of vintage beauty ads from the 1930s to 70s intended for  black American women. Through this art piece Ellen Gallagher  is once again exploring the intersection of  identity, race and culture. ("Ellen Gallagher: Wigs, Waterworlds And Wile E Coyote")

When asked about Wiglette in an interview Gallagher said, “The wig ladies are fugitives. Conscripts from another time and place, liberated from the ‘race’ magazines of the past. But I transformed them-here on the pages that once held them captive.”