CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/12/2018

The shock of the weird in Carroll Dunham's 'Wrestlers'

"How did we get here?" painter and critic Alexi Worth asks in Blum & Poe's glorious new Carroll Dunham exhibition catalog. "Not just to this schematic savannah, with its lavender sky and single tree, but to this conception of painting—one so regressive and so deliberate, so nearly infantile and at the same time so assured, that it generates a reflexive demurral: the shock of the weird." Featured image is "Wrestler (3)" (2016-17).