17 Oct 2009 Pamela Fraser, Assistant Professor of Studio Arts [ more information ]
is currently participating in two exhibitions:
Abnormal Formal, at Kunz, Vis, Gonzales, Chicago, October 1131 (then traveling to Amsterdam and New York)
Because the Night, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, curated by Sabina Ott. Opening October 19 and continuing through November 13.
Fraser has additionally curated an exhibition of drawings by Caroll Dunham, at her gallery, He Said, She Said, in Oak Park IL:
Carroll Dunham has been making paintings since the 1970s that draw on the Abstract, Surrealist, and Pop traditions. His works over time have involved tremendous formal experimentation while figurative and quasi-narrative elements have developed at an incremental pace. When seen in a continuum, one can imagine a single long and unfolding tale. Dunhams work is comic at times but equally lurid, often revealing an especially male psychosexual subject. These blunt pictures are often disturbing, aggressive, and anxious while also hysterically funny in their juvenile styling and blobby cartooniness. I admire their bad manners, their tough beauty, and their faith in their own candor.
Dunham has exhibited extensively, including the 1991 and 1995 Whitney Biennials, Examining Pictures at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Urgent Painting at the Musée dart moderne de la ville de Paris, MAM/ARC. His work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2002.
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