Dana
Schutz
Death Comes To Us All
2003, Oil on Canvas
305 x 198cm |
Death
Comes to Us All is the painting equivalent to a psychotic
episode; Schutz's man and machine meld in convincingly scary
hallucination. Dana Schutz's paintings draw a fine line between
escapism and invasion: her elaborate scenes are not just depictions
of fantasy, but portals to plausible realities where ‘life'
and ‘art' converge. Creating parallel worlds contrived
in their own rules of logic, Schutz paints an interconnectedness
between function and form. Adopting the role of the artist
as a Dr Frankenstein-like power, Dana Schutz consolidates
figuration and abstraction as a monstrous experiment, the
effect of artistic vision spun out of control. |