Carroll Dunham: Wrestlers

Carroll Dunham: WrestlersHow did we get here? Not just to this schematic savannah, with its lavender sky and single tree, but to this conception of paintingone so regressive and so deliberate, so nearly infantile and at the same time so assured, that it generates a reflexive demurral: the shock of the weird. More than any other living American painter, Carroll Dunham continues to sidestep expectations. In these new paintings of bearded, big buttocked wrestlers, he pulls us,

when the Japanese art scene was transformed by a museum-building boom triggered by the country’s rise to unprecedented economic heights

noted member of Mono-ha (School of Things)

and cultural issues

Beardsley focuses on the artist’s Birmingham roots connecting the cultural firmament of that city with other major creative communities in Alabama

1) Sightseeing – Ludus

This first monograph of the Los Angeles–based artist’s work features over 150 plates

published on the occasion of his 2013 exhibition at Blum & Poe

2008: a pig dubbed Zhu Gangqiang (Cast-Iron Pig) that survived on rain water and rotten wood beneath rubble for forty-nine days during a national tragedy that killed nearly seventy thousand people

Edited by Peter Doroshenko

Los Angeles February-March 2020

portraiture

the book will provide a fuller story of the artist's life and career