Dana Schutz had an opening on May Second it was her first
Exhibition at Friedrich Petzel.
Her paintings are often filled with a level of grotesque hummer but not
so in this show. I found a more tamer Schutz a bit strange but not off putting
for neither her or the gallery, one in which I feel pushes the limit more so then
others in Chelsea. Petzel's shows are often the best in the west 20's. Schutz is helping to define what painting is in our present moment and pushing what figure painting can be. Although the room of Yawn paintings may be some kind of acknowledgement
of the show itself. The work is both comfortable and a bit sleepy, but not boring. I like yawning and I guess art doesn't all need to be super flashy, slick, or grotesque in its jokes. Building the Boat While Sailing the
largest work in the show is way too much in a conversation with the Murals of
Diego Rivera so recently after the fantastic show at the MoMA however I like
the painting.
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