Curator-led Tour | Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974 – 2024

Join your fellow SCA Members for a curator-led tour of Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974-2024.

Developed in conversation with the artist, this comprehensive survey is the first museum presentation focused exclusively on Dunham’s drawings, and will debut numerous works to the public. Over the course of five decades, Dunham has engaged in wide-ranging formal and thematic experimentation across various media, yet his drawings represent a distinct, interconnected body of work. Dunham’s mature artistic career began in 1970s New York amid a scene dominated by Minimalist aesthetics. Using simple elements such as line, shape, and color, he made a tremendous impact with work that nevertheless signaled a return to subject matter. In the intervening decades, Dunham has continued to produce drawings that test, and ultimately collapse, the porous boundaries between abstraction and figuration: bodies shapeshift into buildings, trees pose like models, the cellular resembles the cosmic, and internal organs or private parts are made very public.

Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024 is curated by Thea Liberty Nichols, associate research curator, Modern and Contemporary Art.

Support for Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024 is provided by an anonymous donor, Joel Wachs, and the Allan McNab Endowed Fund.