James Kalm visits an exhibition of new paintings by Carroll Dunham at Gladstone Gallery, New York, on view through January 19, 2013.

Kalm writes that in this new work, Dunham "takes up the female nude for investigation These beach-side scenes are less Pierre-Auguste Renoir and more Hanna-Barbera with their cartoonesque cavorting and goof-ball vegetation. A series of tree paintings provide Dunham with a context to delve into draftsmanly abstraction."