Charlotte Dumas, Erie, Kolmarden, Sweden, 2005.
Chromogenic color (Type-C) print, 29 x 37 2/5 inches.
Collection Julie Saul Gallery, New York.
Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam/Julie Saul Gallery, New York. © Charlotte Dumas.
Charlotte Dumas: Anima – Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents ‘Charlotte Dumas: Anima’, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Dutch artist Charlotte Dumas. July 14– October 28, 2012.]]>
Source: Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
A rising international contemporary artist, Dumas recently received widespread acclaim for herphotographs of the surviving search and recovery dogs of 9/11. “Dumas’ photographs are intended to provoke akind of interaction, one that is focused and intense, between her viewers and her subjects,” said Paul Roth, the Corcoran’s senior curator and directorof photography and media arts. “Her goal isto engender a visual relationship, so that the portrait makes us more conscious of how we look at animals in oureveryday lives.”
Dumas, who travels the world making evocative formal portraits of animals, typically works in series,portraying animals characterized by their utility, social function, or by the way they relate to people. Drawinginspiration from classical portrait painting of the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age to explore the relationshipbetween her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle ofsorts against their marginalization or confinement, and against the spatial and psychological encroachment ofpeople.
“The bond between mankind and animals, and the extensive history that it accompanies, is my greatinterest,” said the artist. “I investigate how we tend to use and regard animals for our own purposes, both literally and symbolically and the characteristics that we like to take to heart from them, and the ones we attribute to them.”
About the artist
Charlotte Dumas was born in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands, in 1977. She graduated from the Gerrit RietveldAcademie in Amsterdam in 2000 and continued her education at the Rijksakademie from 2001 to 2002. Her workhas been included in many group exhibitions and in solo shows in the Netherlands, Italy, France, and the UnitedStates. Dumas has published several books, including “Retrieved” (2011), “Repose” (2010), and “Paradis” (2009), eachdedicated to her portrait series. Charlotte Dumas lives and works in both Amsterdam and New York City. She isrepresented by Julie Saul Gallery in New York and by Galerie Paul Andriesse in Amsterdam.
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