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Carroll Dunham Prints and Master Works from Permanent Collection Round out Spring Season at the Addison
ANDOVER, Mass.-(Business Wire)-May 6, 2008 - On May 9, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the academic art museum of Phillips Academy, will continue its spring season with the unveiling of two exhibitions, Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey and Then and Now. On view until July 13, these exhibitions, along with Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke, comprise the last opportunity for the public to view works at the Addison prior to its eighteen-month closure for restoration and expansion. The opening reception for the spring exhibitions and the launch of the museum's building project begins at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 9.
Although best known for his vibrant and provocative paintings, Carroll Dunham's commitment to printmaking has been considerable. Including over 100 prints by one of the most prolific and inventive printmakers of his generation, Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey is the first museum study of the distinguished artist's graphic oeuvre and a celebration of the generous gift of the artist's print archive to the Addison.
Dunham began making prints in 1984 when he was invited to print at Universal Limited Arts Edition (ULAE). Since then, his investigations into printmaking and collaboration with a variety of printers have produced an innovative body of work that is as large as it is varied. Using a wide range of techniques—lithography, etching, drypoint, linocut, wood engraving, screen-printing and most recently monotype—Dunham welcomes the careful analysis required by the graphic process and considers printmaking an integral part of the way he thinks about art making.
In the prints, the tension between instinct and control, so integral to all of Dunham's work is most extreme. Combining the premeditation required of the print medium with the spontaneity and drama of his paintings, Dunham's imagery is transformed, refined and frequently intensified in his graphic work. While his prints share the wickedly cartoonish semi-abstractions of his paintings, they are not merely illustrative, but rather independent works of art that investigate the tactile and visionary possibilities unique to the printmaking process. Polymorphous shapes realized in richly colored inks, velvety surfaces, and crisply carved lines simultaneously suggest the internal meanderings of a body's structure, a topographical landscape or an abstract maze.
The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue raisonne co-published with Yale University Press.
Also opening on May 9 is Then and Now, an exhibition which convenes superlative examples of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and prints from the Addison's expansive collection. Since the museum's opening in 1931, the collection has grown from 400 objects to nearly 16,000. The central gallery will feature master works collected in the museum's early decades, while surrounding galleries underscore the varying paths the collection has taken since its opening in 1931.
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, is open to the public from Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on Monday. Admission to all exhibitions and events is free. The Addison Gallery also offers free education programs for teachers and groups. For more information, call 978-749-4015, or visit the website at www.addisongallery.org
About the Addison Gallery of American Art
Devoted exclusively to American Art, the mission of the Addison Gallery of American Art is to acquire, preserve, interpret and exhibit works of art for the education and enjoyment of all. Opened in 1931, the Gallery has one of the most important collections of American art in the country that includes more than 16,000 works by prominent American artists such as George Bellows, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jackson Pollock, as well as photographers Eadweard Muybridge, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and many more. The Addison Gallery, located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, offers a continually rotating series of exhibitions and programs, all of which are free and open to the public. For more information, call 978-749-4015, or visit the website at www.addisongallery.org.
Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey has been generously supported by the Strypemonde Foundation.
Then and Now is generously supported by the Mollie Bennett Lupe & Garland M. Lasater Exhibitions Fund and the Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Fellowship Fund.
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