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Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey
May 10-July 13, 2008
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© Carroll Dunham (b. 1949)
Untitled, 1996
fifteen-color lithograph on hand torn Arches cover buff paper
Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc. (ULAE)
gift of the artist (PA 1967),
Addison Gallery of American Art
Photo credit: Courtesy of Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc. (ULAE)
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The Addison Gallery is organizing a traveling exhibition of the graphic work of Carroll Dunham. Including over one hundred prints ranging in date from the 1980s to the present, this exhibition will be the first museum study of the artist’s graphic oeuvre. The exhibition will open at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in 2008 before coming to the Addison Gallery in May. It will then be available to travel to additional venues beginning in the fall of 2008 through 2010.
Dunham began making prints in 1984, when Bill Goldston invited him to print at Universal Limited Arts Edition (ULAE). Since then his investigations into printmaking and collaboration with a variety of printers have produced an innovative body of work that is as large as it is varied. Using a wide range of techniques—lithography, etching, drypoint, linocut, wood engraving, screenprinting, and most recently digital media—Dunham embraces the careful analysis required by the graphic process and has described printing as an integral part of the way he thinks about art making.
Combining the spontaneity and drama of his paintings with the careful premeditation demanded of the print medium, Dunham’s imagery is transformed, refined, and often intensified in his graphic work. While his prints share the wickedly cartoony semi-abstractions of his paintings, they are not merely illustrative, but rather autonomous works of art that explore the formal and perceptual possibilities unique to the printmaking process. Polymorphous shapes realized in richly colored inks, velvety surfaces, and crisply carved lines can simultaneously suggest the internal meanderings of a body's structure, a topographical landscape, or an abstract maze.
This exhibition and publication have been generously supported by the Strypemonde Foundation.
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