Carroll Dunham
Terrible Sun, 2013
Mixed media on linel
241.9 × 191.1 cm
Shortly before starting work on “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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As a result, this series expanded the visual language that characterized artist’s previous works and demonstrated a shift in his formal decision making, adhering less strictly to the subject’s formal vocabulary and iconography, allowing each work to evolve as a separate painting.
