Artists' Fellowship - 1987
Painting
Artist Statement:
No statement available.
More about the Artist:
Carroll Dunham is best known for his painterly abstractions that provocatively explore basic instincts, visceral matter, and the planes of cartoons and graffiti. Dunham began painting in the 1980s, working on wood veneer panels and incorporating the grain of the wood into graphic, semi-figurative pictures. In the 1990’s Dunham moved farther away from representation and made a series with body-like organic shapes that bulged and protruded from blocks of color with a comic aggression. Now, Dunham often uses a set of characters in different scenarios to create an implied narrative across several canvases.
In an interview with fellow painter Matthew Ritchie in the New Museum catalogue, Dunham says that he enjoys the limitations of painting:
To me that's still the most basic thing to say about painting. It's a limiting condition within which absolutely anything goes. But it's a negative premise. It's not, "I like painting because it's so wonderful--it can do all these wonderful things." It's more, "I like painting because it's so limited, it's so uptight, so old and so flat and so rectilinear." Within that, you're good to go.
Dunham has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally including Whitney Biennial (1995, 1991), ‘Examining Pictures’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999) and ‘Urgent Painting’, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2002). Solo exhibitions include Metro Pictures, New York (1997, 1999, 2002), White Cube, (1998, 2003), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2002) and Gladstone Gallery, New York (2004).
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