Dana Schutz
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Dana Schutz (b.1976) is a painter in New York.
She graduated with a BFA the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000 and a MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She grew up in suburban Michigan.
She has a number of paintings at the Saatchi Gallery and a large canvas currently hanging at the MoMA in NY. She exhibits at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York and her first European solo show, Self Eaters and the People Who Love Them, was in Paris's Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Her bright, fantastical works have been compared to Currin, Goya, and Katz.
In Bomb Magazine[1], critic Mei Chin wrote that "dissection and dismemberment abound in Dana Schutz's work, all offset by sunny colors and a pert sense of humor. Among other things, she has created a race of people who eat themselves; a guy called Frank who is the last man on Earth; a gravity-phobic person who has tied herself to the ground; and a variety of characters that are spliced, for different reasons, on operating tables. Schutz loves to give her characters life and then cut them up. Yet hers is a blithe cruelty, the curiousity of a child playing at being a creator. Even when she hates, she does it with whimsy."
[edit] External links
- The Saatchi Gallery; About Dana Schutz and her artAdditional information on Dana Schutz including artworks, text panels, articles, and full biography
- http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/dana_schutz.shtml
- Interview with Mei Chin in Bomb Magazine
- Review in Art in America
