Dana Schutz Drawings. Schutzs paintings pose pictorial questions with humor and imagination while nodding toward the art historical precedents of Max Beckmann and Maria Lassnig. Her work frequently depicts scenarios that cannot be viewed in reality with figures participating in violent or creative activities or in impossible or contradictory situations.
An art star before she was 30 Dana Schutz is well known for her 2005 work The Presentation a large-scale James Ensor -like painting of spectators at a surgery that is in the Museum of Modern Art MoMAs permanent collection. Her work frequently depicts scenarios that cannot be viewed in reality with figures participating in violent or creative activities or in impossible or contradictory situations. Dana Schutz is a contemporary American artist known for her painterly translations of intangible concepts into dynamic compositions.
This online presentation debuts five new paintings also on view at Frieze New York and brings you inside the artists studio process.
How do you begin to depict a feeling wonders Dana Schutz articulating a central problem that drives her artistic practice. An art star before she was 30 Dana Schutz is well known for her 2005 work The Presentation a large-scale James Ensor -like painting of spectators at a surgery that is in the Museum of Modern Art MoMAs permanent collection. Dana Schutzs The Visible World left and The. Her distinctive visual style is characterized by.
