George Dunbar Opening Reception

Callan Contemporary is pleased to announce Alluvion, a new exhibition by George Dunbar. Throughout his groundbreaking, seven-decade long career, Dunbar has continually reinvented his style by exploring unconventional techniques and approaches to materials. In so doing, he has recontextualized his aesthetic vocabulary and ideas that have intrigued him since the early stages of his artistic career. A common thread among these diverse practices is his unique deployment of alluvion, or clay. His compositions often begin with multiple layers of fine German clays, meticulously applied to the picture plane, which Dunbar builds up, gilds, distresses, and excavates, imparting dramatically topographical effects that imbue the paintings with sculptural qualities. In bas-relief as well as more traditionally two-dimensional pieces, the artist’s fluency in gestural, Hard Edge, and neo-Baroque idioms is anchored in a distinctive aesthetic thumbprint uniquely his own. callancontemporary.com.