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French "hand-stuffed wool" sculptor Caroline Achaintre

Moustache-Eagle, 2008; Insider, 2008; Fevver, 2008

#contemporary art #sculpture #blur those boundaries

An Institutional Critique, or: The funniest thing I've seen all week

#institutional critique

Uk painter Gabriella Boyd

A Room in London, 2011; Blue Room, 2011; Orange Room, 2011

#contemporary art #painting #art

Canadian sculptor David Altmejd

The New North, 2007; The Healers, 2008; detail from The Healers

#contemporary art #sculpture #art

Carroll Dunham's 1980s-Early 90s paintings, which I love way more.

Elm, 1984; Tall Birch, 1983; Mound in a Stained Field, (mound G), 1992; Touching Three Sides, 1992; Two Dimensions, 1985

#contemporary art #80s #painting #dunham

Carroll Dunham's (as in Lena's father) paintings from the 90's.

Next Bathers, four (wash), 2010; Demon Tower, 1997; Five Pieces, ??; Ship, 1999,

#contemporary art #painting #dunham

"You see, whites want black artists to mostly deliver something as if it were an official version of the black experience. But the vocabulary won't hold it, simply. No true account really of black life can be held, can be contained, in the American vocabulary. As it is, the only way that you can deal with it is by doing great violence to the assumptions on which the vocabulary is based. But they won't let you do that. And when you go along, you find yourself very quickly painted into a corner: you've written yourself into a corner."

-James Baldwin, via Glenn Ligon's great text painting