Dana Schutz, The Last Thing You See
20 Nov - 18 Dec 2010
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present the exhibition The Last Thing You See with new works by Dana Schutz (*1976 in Livonia, USA).
For her latest exhibition, The Last Thing You See, Dana Schutz continues to question painting’s ability to represent the impossible. Working from invented hypothetical situations the protagonists of the paintings are depicted in instances, which result from the confrontation with one’s own subconsciousness.
Her recent work deals with two themes, the first is what she labels “Tourette’s Paintings”, “involuntary anti-social images that come to mind without any kind of context or larger narrative”. These paintings disrupt one’s train of thought as someone with Tourette’s syndrome might curse impulsively during polite conversation, releasing unpleasant or awkward images into the minds of others. The second theme involves depicting “the last thing you see before you die”.
Schutz’ intense palette and witty shifts between painterly means and ends provide a comic foil for her otherwise dark, perverse subject matter.
She employs the use of colour in a physical, bodily sense. Topoi such as necessity, self-creation and destruction become characteristics, which are also expressed through her unique way of utilising paint and brush.
Schutz intuitively observes and thereby filters subjective sensitivities. Her paintings depict the experience of a moment in an ambiguous narrative, which shifts between disquiet and humour.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
For her latest exhibition, The Last Thing You See, Dana Schutz continues to question painting’s ability to represent the impossible. Working from invented hypothetical situations the protagonists of the paintings are depicted in instances, which result from the confrontation with one’s own subconsciousness.
Her recent work deals with two themes, the first is what she labels “Tourette’s Paintings”, “involuntary anti-social images that come to mind without any kind of context or larger narrative”. These paintings disrupt one’s train of thought as someone with Tourette’s syndrome might curse impulsively during polite conversation, releasing unpleasant or awkward images into the minds of others. The second theme involves depicting “the last thing you see before you die”.
Schutz’ intense palette and witty shifts between painterly means and ends provide a comic foil for her otherwise dark, perverse subject matter.
She employs the use of colour in a physical, bodily sense. Topoi such as necessity, self-creation and destruction become characteristics, which are also expressed through her unique way of utilising paint and brush.
Schutz intuitively observes and thereby filters subjective sensitivities. Her paintings depict the experience of a moment in an ambiguous narrative, which shifts between disquiet and humour.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.