Carroll Dunham

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Carroll Dunham (* 1949 in New Haven , Connecticut ) is an American artist (painting, drawings, graphics, mixed media, sculptures).

His daughter Lena Dunham became famous in 2012 with the HBO television series Girls , in which her sister Grace Dunham also appeared as an actress. Carroll Dunham is married to the artist and photographer Laurie Simmons.

Carroll Dunham lives and works in New York .

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Following his artistic training at Trinity College in Hartford , Carroll Dunham developed a concise formal language in the early 1980s that runs through all phases of the work and continues to develop consistently.

Dunham's typical characters emerged in the years 1994/1995 on the basis of drawings and paintings of organic forms, which the artist worked out since the 1980s in the sense of the automatic drawing of the Surrealists from the structure of different types of wood used as a painting surface.

At the beginning of 2000 he developed a phallus-nosed character with a hat and in a suit, which he developed in the following series of works. He often moves in urban landscapes and, initially often in black and white, is reminiscent of a stylization of the heroes of crime fiction of the 1950s . It is all the more astonishing that in the Mule series in mid-2000 this figure lost his pants and a large, pink-fleshy vagina emerged underneath . Around 2010, the female figure found its way back into Dunham's work with the Bathers series, which he combined with the Tree series , which was intensified in mid-2000 .

Dunham's pictorial inventions often run through different media, so that a theme is worked out and varied in drawing, printmaking and painting. Sexual references play an important role with references to Sigmund Freud's theory , but also its humorous and drastic artistic emphasis. His works refer to a whole range of painting trends in the 20th century, such as surrealism , action painting , abstract painting and pop art .

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  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: National Academicians "D": Dunham, Carroll, NA 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 3, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  2. ^ Goldmann, Jonathan: Carroll Dunham , Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 27, 2000, p. 68
  3. ↑ Jerry Saltz, Charnel Knowledge, March 27, 2007
  4. ↑ Works by Carroll Dunham ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gerhardsengerner.com
  5. ↑ Nilsson, Isabella: Carroll Dunham. Painting and Sculpture 2004-2008 , jrpIringier, Zurich 2009
  6. ^ Wallmann, Susan: Carroll Dunham in Print , Art on Paper, March-April 2001, pp. 44-53
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Trees that lay eggs. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dunham, Carroll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut