Carroll Dunham

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CARROLL DUNHAM: A DRAWING SURVEY
Text by Natalie Haddad.
BLUM & POE
ISBN: 9780966350333 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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CARROLL DUNHAM: PAINTING & SCULPTURE 2004-2008
Edited by Atle Gerhardsen, Isabella Nilsson. Text by Kate Linker.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829884 | US $39.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2009
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CARROLL DUNHAM: INDEX
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865600707 | US $57.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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CARROLL DUNHAM: LINE THAT NEVER ENDS
Essay by Klaus Kertess. Introduction by Juerg Judin.
GALERIE JUDIN AND NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY
ISBN: 9783906801056 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2006
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CARROLL DUNHAM
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775712156 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2003
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Carroll Dunham

Carroll Dunham: A Drawing Survey

Text by Natalie Haddad.
Published by Blum & Poe

This volume constitutes a 30-year survey of works on paper by New York-based painter Carroll Dunham (born 1949). Dunham’s visual lexicon, drawing on such precursors as Arshile Gorky, André Masson and Philip Guston, and populated by biomorphic forms equipped with grinding teeth, phallic noses, top hats, daggers and guns, expresses an unbridled and polymorphous sexuality in which conflict is overtly celebrated. Dunham produces one or more drawings per day, for weeks at a time or longer, and has now amassed an astonishing breadth of material and content. Included here are some 366 drawings by Dunham, spanning his early career in the 1980s to the present, and covering all aspects of his drawing practice. Published for a 2012 exhibition at Blum & Poe, it offers one of the most comprehensive evaluations of Dunham’s drawing practice to date.

Carroll Dunham: Painting & Sculpture 2004-2008

Edited by Atle Gerhardsen, Isabella Nilsson. Text by Kate Linker.
Published by JRP|Ringier

New York artist Carroll Dunham makes figurative paintings and sculptures that frequently draw on that uniquely American dovetailing of Surrealism and cartoon idioms, of which the late Philip Guston would be an obvious instance, resounding with a libidinous zaniness. Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer. In the 1990s, Dunham's claim to fame was a series of cartoonlike organic figures, engaged in a bizarre battle of the sexes. Around the turn of the millennium, a single phallus-nosed character emerged in the work. And recently he has been working on tree-shaped forms. This volume gives an overview of Dunham's recent paintings and sculptures.

Carroll Dunham: Index

Published by Walther König, Köln

Writing in the New York Times, critic Ken Johnson observed that over the years the New York painter Carroll Dunham "has evolved restlessly while steering by the lights of a constant constellation of concerns: primal instinct, civilization, modern painting and comedy." (He also calls Dunham's subjects "big-headed male and female troglydites.") This comprehensive look at almost 15 years of small drawings finds Dunham's exuberant fedoras, phallic symbols and anthropomorphized amoebae consistent through more than a decade-and-a-half of stylistic growth and change. Dunham's work has appeared in, among other exhibitions, more than one Whitney Biennial and in a major 2002 retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and has been covered in Artforum, Vogue, Newsweek and the New Yorker. Dunham occasionally writes for Artforum, and he is represented by Barbara Gladstone in New York.

Carroll Dunham: Line That Never Ends

Drawings 1984-2004

Essay by Klaus Kertess. Introduction by Juerg Judin.
Published by Galerie Judin and Nolan/Eckman Gallery

Exploration and radical change have distinguished New York painter Carroll Dunham's drawings and works on canvas since the beginning of his career. Drawings 1984-2004 documents 20 years of controlled yet delirious lines wrapping around biomorphic landscapes and curling into eruptive blobs and gobs, vividly colored planets and eyeless demons in taut interiors. Klaus Kertess's essay rightly places Dunham among "the explorers of line, Pollock, de Kooning, Twombly and Marden." Limited edition of 150 copies.

Carroll Dunham

Artwork by Carroll Dunham, Matthew Ritchie. Edited by Dan Cameron. Text by A. M. Homes, Klaus Kertess, Lisa Phillips, Sanford Schwartz.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

The extensive oeuvre of American painter Carroll Dunham has infused the discourse of representation versus abstraction with new life, while simultaneously pointing to a number of new directions in 20th-century painting, such as surrealism, action painting, abstract painting, and pop art. His unusual, original color compositions and independent use of forms and materials had a significant influence on contemporary artists like Fred Tomaselli and Matthew Ritchie. In Dunham's works, pictorial elements reminiscent of cartoons became recognizable details within an enlivened, abstract picture surface as early as the beginning of the 80s. Later in that decade, Dunham turned to larger formats, painting the expanses of his canvases with visually constant forms in fluid gesture: bodily shapes, reduced to pictographs, appeared repulsive and hairy, resembling tumors, teeth, or lips, in expressionist colors and with an impressive painterly quality. Recently, Dunham's pictures have become distinctly more figurative, displaying aggressive male and female caricatures, with buildings, planets, and boats becoming additional vehicles of human emotions and unbridled primary energies.