The MAC presents an original exhibition that offers an overview of the work of New York artist Dana Schutz, with particular emphasis on highlights of her recent output. Schutz’s work over the past decade has had a marked influence on contemporary painting. Her paintings are inhabited by strange portraits or group scenes, in which the figures are often stripped naked, carved into silhouettes of raw flesh. In addition to certain traits borrowed from the tradition of Synthetic Cubism, they recall the primitive impulse of German Expressionism.
IMAGE CREDIT: Dana Schutz, ‘Swimming, Smoking, Crying,’ 2009, Oil on canvas, 45 x 48 inches, 114.3 x 121.9 cm, Collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel Gallery, New York.
