Contemporary art’s preeminent painter of ladies discusses his “canon of sad guys” and his first museum show in 15 years.
, and their two sons and daughter. The studio is a cavernous space that could easily house a three-bedroom apartment, but Currin—imposingly tall, affable, and prone to boyish bouts of physical comedy at 56—keeps it open and airy. There’s a big wall of windows and a skylight overhead. When I visit, it’s raining and the light reflecting off the gray painted floor feels straight-up Vermeer.
We sit at a table in the center of the space to talk, not about the work on the walls, but about the paintings that have already been shipped to Texas for Currin’s first museum show in 15 years, which opened last weekend at Dallas Contemporary., a title taken from a Philip Roth novel, assembles the lesser known side of the painter’s oeuvre, what curator Alison Gingeras calls his “canon of sad guys.
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