Dana Schutz Quotes

Dana Schutz — American Artist born on December 30, 1976,

Dana Schutz is 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... (wikipedia)

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

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.

I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

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.

Dana Schutz Quotes

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