Summary
This is the fourth in a suite of thirteen images in a portfolio entitled Female Portraits. The portraits depict a blonde-haired female character emerging from the lower margin in a series of thirteen profile positions orientated vertically or horizontally. The character has no eyes or nose; her thick lips protrude dramatically baring grimacing teeth that may be clenched together or open wide in the evocation of a yell. As in his earlier print portfolio Shadows, 1989 (Tate P11882-11891) and in various drawing and painting suites of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dunham has used the structure of a series to show a range of moods or states in a single subject. Although the portraits vary in apparently developmental ways – in some of the images a head suggesting a foetus or infant grows from the character’s flesh either inside or outside its body – there is no recognisable narrative structure to the suite… (read more)
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