Dana Schutz
Frank as a Proboscis Monkey, 2002
Oil on canvas
36 x 32 inches
Collection of the Artist
© Dana Schutz
Dana Schutz’s grotesque and often humorous paintings, with fictional adventures of people cannibalizing their own bodies, scientists using sharks to cure the plague, and Michael Jackson’s corpse.
Recognizing Schutzʼs inventive first decade, the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, N.Y., recently granted her the Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Award, given to an artist to mount an early career exhibition with an accompanying catalogue. “Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels” opened at the Neuberger on Sept. 25 and travels to Miami and Denver in 2012. Curator Helaine Posner worked closely with the artist, selecting around 30 paintings created between 2001 and 2010. Having left her longtime dealer Zach Feuer last summer, Schutz will have her first solo show at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York in May. As time has passed, Schutz has increasingly situated herself in the forefront of experimental painting, combining the semantics of figuration and illusionistic space with abstract pattern and gesture. Her tone has become more subdued and introspective, in a departure from the provocative pictures that first brought her fame. (via: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/transformer-dana-schutz/)
Schutz told her Miami Art Museum audience that her paintings come from asking the wildest questions, then trying to paint the possibility onto the canvas. The imagery has been some of the more imaginative and bold painting of the day.
Dana Schutz
Swimming, Smoking, Crying, 2009
Oil on canvas
45 x 48 inches
Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art,
Johnson County Community College, Overand Park, Kansas,
Gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation
© Dana Schutz
She challenges herself to come up with subjects that are “too awkward, gross, impractical or invisible to paint.”
Miami Art Museum Audio Tour (scroll down their exhibition page)
Interviews with Dana Schutz reveal the artist’s insight into ten selected works in the exhibition Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, on view January 15 – February 26, 2012. Click on the thumbnails below to hear the artist speak about featured works of art.
Audio Tour content created by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase.
“Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels”
January 15 – February 26, 2012
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
T. 305 375 4633
www.miamiartmuseum.org