Carroll Dunham
dal 12/1/2001 al 17/2/2001
Segnalato da
12/1/2001
Carroll Dunham
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Gagosian Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Carroll Dunham. The exhibition is comprised of six paintings that the artist refers to as "portraits," three male and three female. In them, Dunham continues to use animated figures to explore the formal and psychological issues for which he has become most well known. The new paintings however, have figures that have become much more iconic and monumental.
New Paintings.
"One of Dunham's greatest gifts is his ability to comprehend what the
culture constructs as real. In turn, it can be fairly said that his paintings,
core samples from his own psychological terrain, are touchstones of
human emotion. What I see as real in his art is a living strain of
painting's impurity, and therefore its future." Ronald Jones, "The Funny
Biology of Evil," Carroll Dunham: Selected Paintings, 1990-95, School of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1995
Gagosian Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to announce an exhibition of
new works by Carroll Dunham.
The exhibition is comprised of six paintings that the artist refers to as
"portraits," three male and three female. In them, Dunham continues to
use animated figures to explore the formal and psychological issues for
which he has become most well known. The new paintings however,
have figures that have become much more iconic and monumental.
All of the paintings were worked on simultaneously from late 1999 and
throughout most of 2000. The first in the series entitled, Alpha, depicts
an archetypal male who is surrounded of by splashes of paint, graphic
marks, stains and scribbles. Cy Twombly, Arshile Gorky, Joan Miró and
even Jean Dubuffet and William Copley, but Dunham's male is
thoroughly contemporary and seems to be caught in the psychology of
our present moment.
The three female portraits are set against deep blue backgrounds with
similar graphic complexity. Dunham has painted his females with
deference, while self-sufficient and powerful; their sinuous and supple
forms are reminiscent of early Paleolithic carvings such as the Venus of
Willendorf.
The gallery will also display 19 new prints by the artist that were the
stimulus for this series of paintings.
Dunham has exhibited widely in the last 15 years, and is in notable
public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The
Art Institute of Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Philadelphia
Museum of Art and The Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London. He will
have a major retrospective at The New Museum of Art, New York in
January of 2003.
Gagosian - 456 North CAmden Drive - Beverly Hills, CA 90210 -
TEL 310 271 9400 FAX 310 271 9420
Opening reception: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6 - 8pm
TUES-FRI 10-5:30 - SAT 10-5