Carroll Dunham New Haven, CT, USA, b. 1949
Terrible Sun, 2013
Mixed media on linel
241,9 × 191,1 cm
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Shortly before beginning his “Bathers” series in 2008, Carroll Dunham expressed the following idea: “In my fantasy life women would paint a new unimaginable kind of abstraction we’ve never seen...
Shortly before beginning his “Bathers” series in 2008, Carroll Dunham expressed the following idea: “In my fantasy life women would paint a new unimaginable kind of abstraction we’ve never seen before… and lead us to perceive a new relationship between painting and reality.”
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This vision became a key catalyst for the series, which broadened the visual language established in Dunham's earlier works. It marked a departure from rigid formal vocabularies and iconographies, allowing each painting to evolve freely as a unique, standalone expression.
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