Dana Schutz

Dana Schutz (b. 1976) is an exciting and original young artist who was born in Livonia, Michigan and now lives and works in New York. Her work has been described as "teetering on the edge of tradition and innovation." (see link below for more.)


Death Comes to Us All, oil on canvas, 2003
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Death Comes to Us All is the painting equivalent to a psychotic episode; Schutz's man and machine meld in convincingly scary hallucination. Dana Schutz's paintings draw a fine line between escapism and invasion: her elaborate scenes are not just depictions of fantasy, but portals to plausible realities where ‘life' and ‘art' converge. Creating parallel worlds contrived in their own rules of logic, Schutz paints an interconnectedness between function and form. Adopting the role of the artist as a Dr Frankenstein-like power, Dana Schutz consolidates figuration and abstraction as a monstrous experiment, the effect of artistic vision spun out of control. (from the Saatchi Gallery website-- click here)


Reformers, oil on canvas, 2004
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Reformers-- what's going on in this picture? It has a lot of bright colors, but......