Damaris Dunham is a North American Artist. She recently earned her MFA from the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis (2020) and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
She constructs three-dimensional paintings that have a strong relation to traditions of abstraction in both painting and sculpture. She explores themes of the unconscious, the uncanny, and the space of dreams. Her work is non-representational and yet it evokes the body as well as landscape. Her paintings are process-based and are visceral in their explicit choice of material and form. They relate to the idea of the feminine and the void or absence of the feminine in the history of psychoanalysis through focusing on texture and surfaces, forming relief-like three dimensionality and void-like spaces.
