Carroll Dunham

Carroll Dunham
Born1949
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationTrinity College
Known forPainting, drawing, printmaking
SpouseLaurie Simmons
Children
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
Websitecarrolldunham.net

Carroll Dunham (born November 5, 1949) is an American painter. Working since the late 1970s, Dunham's career reached critical renown in the 1980s when he first exhibited with Baskerville + Watson, a decade during which many artists returned to painting.[1] He is known for his conceptual approach to painting and drawing and his interest in exploring the relationship between abstraction and figuration.

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."[2] David Pagel, in a Los Angeles Times review intended to be complimentary, described his paintings as "vulgar beyond belief..."[3]

  1. ^ Morgan Falconer, About this artist: Carroll Dunham, The Museum of Modern Art.
  2. ^ Johanna Burton, Exhibition: "Carroll Dunham Paintings", The New Museum.
  3. ^ David Pagel, Art review: Carroll Dunham at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2010.