Dana Schutz at Friedrich Petzel
June 23, 2012
NEW YORK CITY— Imagine trying to build a boat while sailing it. Dana Schutz’s show at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery captures several such moments of impossible endeavor. In their energetic contrasts of color and eclectic manipulations of space, Schutz’s paintings engage with viewer preconceptions about both style and subject.
Piano in the Rain depicts a girl sitting both in the rain and in a room— a long green line running the width of the painting declares her indoor location even as a large cloud suggests an open-air venue. Schutz extends these paradoxes of content to the painting’s principles of composition. Though the piano player has been reduced to an almost-flat profile, her instrument angles sharply back in a deeper conception of space. Throughout the series, Schutz uses to paradox to address the daily challenges of urban living—she addresses obstacles at once common and insurmountable.
Schutz’s work has appeared at galleries and museums worldwide, including the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e in Rovereto, Italy, The Rose Museum in Massachusetts, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas. Though her show at Friedrich Petzel closed this Friday, her work will be on display this November at the Denver Museum of Art.
Image via The New Yorker
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