This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  With studios in Chelsea, New York, and Salisbury, Connecticut, Carroll
Dunham creates raucous acrylic paintings with additives that he
describes as a "kind of high-wire act of the id and ego". Many of his paintings are full of humorous figures with
disconnected body parts.
He is a regular exhibitor at Whitney
Biennials, and his work is in numerous prestigious museums including
the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Art Institute of Chicago.
He
was born in Old Lyme, Connecticut to parents who ran a real-estate
business. He became a studio art major at Trinity College, and
his exposure to the New York art world came from regular college field
trips into the city. He interned there one summer for Dorothea
Rockburn and from her learned studio skills. He worked for seven
years as a lay-out artist for Time magazine, and then by age 30
settled into doing his own art work, which at the beginning was working
with floating shapes and then later added texture. He also did
figurative work.
He credits older artists Mel Bochner and Barry
LeVa as helping him find his own direction. Dunham also became a
committed art teacher and works with students in the graduate program
at Columbia University.
He is married to pop-photographer
Laurie Simmons, and they have two daughters and spend summers at their
country retreat in Salisbury, Connecticut. He prefers the medium
of acrylic paint and textural additives such as styrofoam, asphalt and
crushed glass.
Source:
ARTnews, January 1999
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