“I’m never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture,” the Brooklyn-based artist Dana Schutz has said. “I think that’s really boring. What I’m interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting.” Schutz subverts expectations with her compositions, which teeter between abstraction and figuration. Her portraits often feel like landscapes, and her landscapes can feel like still lifes. Mostly, she’s interested in the interconnectedness between objects, people, and the world we live in. Presenting paintings from the last 20 years, this exhibition showcases Schutz’s narrative power. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
Dana Schutz
Dana Schutz, Swimming, Smoking, Crying, 2009.
When
Feb 9 – June 11, 2023
Where
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Photo: © Dana Schutz