BATHERS, TREES by Carroll Dunham

Walther König, 2014, First edition, 96 pp., 8 3/4" X 11 1/2", Hardcover

As new (still in publisher's shrink wrap)

First recognized for his wood veneer paintings in the 1980s, New York–based artist Carroll Dunham (born 1949) has gone on to explore a diverse range of subjects that test the boundaries of representational imagery and abstraction. This volume serves as a comprehensive survey of Dunham’s Bathers and Trees paintings from 2009–2012, and documents an exhibition at New York’s Gladstone Gallery. Mixing organic forms with unusual geometries, Dunham’s Trees paintings portray fallen or limbless trees in a style incorporating elements of Pop art, Surrealism and Expressionism. The pale, faceless and grotesque nudes of his Bathers series provide a contemporary context for the traditional bather motif.