Carroll Dunham

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is warmer in the original. The catalogue illustration also fails to convey the textured surface of the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals some fine and unobtrusive hairline tension cracks running intermittently along the extreme outer edges. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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"I had this idea that I wanted to use only the certain signs, glyphs and drawing moves that I’ve been using since the very beginning of my work. The loop-the-loop and an arrow thing with the point are among these recurring motifs. There’s a handful of them. It’s a very primitive vocabulary of little marks and ellipses. In one way or another, they account for almost everything I’ve ever drawn. And I tried to think about these as non-subject paintings, just making marks with no sense of where I’m going."

CARROLL DUNHAM
in conversation with Ross Simonini, In the Studio: Carroll Dunham, 2016, online