
Golden Hour (Study)
2020
Golden Hour (Study) draws the eye into Kyle Dunn's characteristic world of sensuous, emotionally charged figuration, rendered here in intimate scale on paper. Executed in 2020, this work served as a preparatory study for a larger painting, offering collectors a rare window into the artist's process, where compositional decisions, tonal relationships, and the psychological atmosphere of a scene are worked out with quiet deliberation. At 30.5 by 22.9 centimeters, the piece carries the immediate, unguarded quality that studies so often possess, a directness that finished works can sometimes conceal beneath layers of refinement. Dunn, born in 1990 in Livonia, Michigan and now based in Queens, New York, has developed a distinctive visual language centered on the male body and its emotional interior. His figures are lithe and frankly erotic, yet weighted with interiority and a sense of genuine connection, hovering between communal warmth and solitary longing. The spatial environments he constructs hold as much expressive force as the figures themselves, and even in this compact study that tension between inhabiting a space and being alone within it remains fully present. Dunn is represented by P.P.O.W in New York and has exhibited broadly across the United States. The work is signed by the artist and presented in conservation framing courtesy of Chelsea Frames, measuring 15.125 by 12.125 by 1.25 inches. It is currently offered through the Bailey House Benefit Auction, providing an opportunity to acquire a meaningful piece of Dunn's practice while supporting a significant cause.
- Medium
- Drawing on Paper
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Bailey House Benefit Auction
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