Caroll Dunham: Drawings, 1990 - 2009
February 4 - March 1, 2020

We are pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by Carroll Dunham, made between 1990 - 2009. Our exhibition follows the development of Dunham's works on paper as he moves from earlier abstracted forms to more figurative drawings.

"I don't want to make the kind of art that comes with a user's manual, where you read the press release and say, 'Got it,'... I'm trying to make something that is not verbal, so I have to be willing to accept where people go with it."

There are probably few American artists, whose works, seen over a long course of time, feel, as Dunham's do, so much of a piece."

- Sanford Schwartz, 'A Bosch for Us Now', New York Review of Books, November 8, 2018

"Everything that comes next has come out of what came before. The thing that generates change in my work really isn't the illustration of ideas so much as it is a reaction to what's in the work already."

- Carroll Dunham, Painting Process / Process Painting, artist talk at Museum of Modern Art, September 10, 2007

"Time is as much a material as crayon or paper is a material. And I knew I'd want to be able to reconstruct how I'd experienced my art as it happened."

- Carroll Dunham 

"[These works] explicitly examine the negative and positive spaces inherent in his new shape discoveries, show[ing] Dunham inventing a new language as he's shedding old habits." 

 - Dan Nadel, "Knowledge About a Thing: Carroll Dunham's Drawings", Hyperallergic, September 24, 2016

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For inquiries about these works, please contact James Barron:
+1 917 270 8044
james@jamesbarronart.com