Dana Schutz valuation
Paints crowded, awkward, invented scenes of people doing impossible things.
Dana Schutz was born in Livonia, Michigan, in 1976 and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and at Columbia University.
What a work by Dana Schutz is worth
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Bio
Dana Schutz was born in Livonia, Michigan, in 1976 and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and at Columbia University. Her paintings are dense, brightly coloured, expressionist compositions of invented situations — people eating themselves, swimming, sneezing, fighting, building — in which bodies and objects collide in cramped space. She has had museum surveys in the United States and Europe, and has more recently made sculpture as well.
Paintings dominate, with drawings, works on paper and a limited number of prints and editions. Title, date and dimensions matched to the gallery's records identify a painting, and provenance through the artist's galleries is the norm for significant works. The paintings are thickly worked in places, so impasto, cracking and any surface damage need checking, and works on paper need the usual care with light.
Frank from Observation, Petzel and Open Casket
Schutz first came to attention with Frank from Observation, at LFL gallery, later Zach Feuer, in New York in 2002, which imagined her as the last painter with a single last subject, a man called Frank. Piano in the Rain, at Petzel in 2012, was praised by Roberta Smith in the New York Times, and in 2019 she showed sculptures at Petzel, modelled in clay and cast in bronze.
Open Casket, her 2016 painting after the photograph of Emmett Till in his coffin, drew protests at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, with demands that it be removed. Her work was in Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2022.
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