Dana Schutz

Viscerally evocative, Dana Schutz's newest paintings and sculptures depict allegorical scenes in which often grotesque characters negotiate their subjecthood. Schutz's large-scale paintings and sculptures portray tragicomic situations populated by characters preoccupied with self-preservation as they tilt towards oblivion. With mask-like features—all jaws and noses—they emerge, in groups and pairs, out of the painterly atmosphere. Enormous, vibrant, and enigmatic, her works...