Painter Dana Schutz

Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts

Dana Schutz, whose vibrant, large-scale paintings are collected by many major museums, gives the opening lecture of this year’s CFA School of Visual Arts Contemporary Perspectives Lecture series, which brings professional artists, including painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers, and art educators and critics, to campus to share their experiences.

Schutz, whose work has been described as “humorous, yet grotesque,” says she didn’t always have an artistic direction. She shows work from her first year in graduate school, at Columbia University — monochromatic paintings, thick with texture. “This is what I thought I would be making in graduate school,” she says. “I thought it would be white objects, minimalist objects out of paint. But that didn’t really last.”

Schutz shows some of her other works, featuring subjects such as imaginary partners for her single friends, the mid-sneeze moment, and the last man on Earth. “I eventually thought, who cares? I want to make what I want to see painted,” she says.

November 3, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
CFA Concert Hall

Video length is 01:21:12.

About the speaker:
A young, up-and-coming American painter, Dana Schutz earned a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000 and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2002. Her work can be seen in major museums in North America and Europe, as well as in several important private collections. A number of her works are in the Saatchi Gallery in London, and a large canvas, titled How We Cured the Plague (2007), is on display in the permanent collection of the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Trento e Rovereto in Italy. She exhibits at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York.

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