Dana Schutz
Dana Schutz
Dana Schutzis an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her humorous, gestural paintings that take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a point of departure. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
mostly narratives
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
creates feeling knowing performing watching
I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
art flooded
I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
bed bedroom clip great house leave maria performed saw special strange supposedly takes
I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
almost angles artists certain intense looks scale subway visual vocabulary
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.