Carroll Dunham: A Painter of Quiet Intensity Carroll Dunham (born November 5, 1949) is an American painter whose distinctive style—characterized by vibrant colors, biomorphic forms, and a preoccupation with the human body—has cemented his place as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. Working since the late 1970s, Dunham’s career reached critical renown in the 1980s when he first exhibited with Baskerville + Watson,…