carroll dunham drawings

Our website uses cookies to improve user experience. Carroll Dunham is known for his paintings of cartoonish, humanoid forms such as penis-nosed men, bulbous shapes reminiscent of sexual or digestive organs, and direct, humorous compositions of exposed vaginas.

He decided to take that shape as his generative starting point.In 1988, Illeana Sonnabend visited the artist’s studio expecting to find the latest veneer paintings. Our exhibition follows the development of Dunham's works on paper as he moves from earlier abstracted forms to more figurative drawings. In “Untitled (3/15/84)” (1984), Dunham applies a coat of yellow to an extant vertical area of a wood veneer, and then draws forms on top of it, as though extracting internal shapes from the material. Before 1980 Thumbnails. It had a goal and was trying to reach that goal. Featuring a large group of drawings created between 1982 and 1996, the exhibition highlights a period of Dunham’s practice in which he explored the boundaries of, and possibilities within abstraction. Of his body of work, Johanna Burton writes, "Dunham's career can be characterized by its rigorous indefinability, as his works dip freely into the realms of abstraction, figuration, surrealism, graffiti, pop, even cartoons, without ever settling loyally into any one of them." Carroll Dunham (b.

Moreover, printmaking had given Dunham access to multiple kinds of paper, allowing for surface experiments he hadn’t yet considered. Beginning Tuesday, July 21, the Los Angeles and Tokyo galleries will be open by appointment only. Dunham was in his early 30s and his closest artist friends were Winters, Mel Kendrick, and John Newman. In short, Pagel declared, they were the best paintings of Dunham’s career. Imagery is generated through subject matter yet abstractly, in a series of variations that incrementally expand on and work through a theme.Dunham has said of his use of various subjects in his practice, "… all these subjects are really just things that let you make paintings. (506 results) “The only material distinction between what I was calling paintings and what I was calling drawings,” he says, “is that my drawings were not mounted on panel. So, following his usual line of thinking, the artist took a cue from the work itself and followed a shape hanging down like a ginger root in “Untitled” 1987 one of his final paintings on wood. Tip never seemed to have a goal in mind and didn’t seem to have been in a hurry.

Drawings - Carroll Dunham. New York: Gladstone Gallery, 2013 ISBN 978-3863353964 They had in common a set of non-verbal references to nature. His early works, painted on wood veneer, used the existing textures of the knotted grain to create elaborate compositions recalling both fantastic organic forms and the popular imagery of cartoons. Comprised of almost 400 works on paper, executed between 1982 and 2012, this exhibition serves as the most comprehensive evaluation of Dunham’s drawing practice to date. Painting operates at the nexus of intersubjective experience and consensual reality relying on both for its subject matter while remaining stubbornly self-referential, and its content extends into the areas we call psychological social, material (in both the philosophical and economic senses of the word) and—for the lack of a better term—spiritual giving it unusual utility as a tool for studying the evolution of the self of socio-cultural systems and of the complex reciprocities between the two, strikingly manifest within the apparent disconnect within paintings dual nature as a repository of capital and a facilitator of profound contemplation, a perfect storm of the crass, the sacred and the intimately personal.Dunham lives and works in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut with his wife, the artist Kate Linker, "On the Image in the Mind's Eye: Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Carroll Dunham," in Kate Linker, "On the Image in the Mind's Eye: Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Carroll Dunham," in Carroll Dunham is known for his paintings of cartoonish, humanoid forms such as penis-nosed men, bulbous shapes reminiscent of sexual or digestive organs, and direct, humorous compositions of exposed vaginas. That acceptance of less paradoxically allows him to generate more — more work, more subject.” Winters’s observation gets at another essential visual component of these drawings: the dates. ©2020 Hyperallergic Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. But his figures and his worlds are, in hindsight, waiting just inside the graphite areas the artist has forcefully inscribed in a built-up pink ground. During his long career, Carroll Dunham developed a highly personal style.