"Testing the canvas as an affective space, Schutz's paintings often depict ambiguous scenes of singular, coupled or grouped figures in hypothetical, absurd or impossible situations, or strange narratives where imagined crises and social relations are held in tension. While deeply informed by history painting, her pictures see the specifics of time and place recede to bring forward heightened psychological states, sensations and deeper subjective experiences."
"Built from an alchemy of deftly worked wet-on-wet painting, the dramas on the canvas run the gamut of emotive registers from humour and joy to anxiety and hopelessness, within which the terrible and beautiful collide. The exhibition title, One Big Animal, evokes the sense of a group acting as one organism, working in unison or formation, whether knowingly or blindly."
Thomas Dane Gallery presents new paintings and sculptures by Dana Schutz across two Duke Street spaces in St. James's. The exhibition is the artist's second solo with the gallery, following Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly (2020), and follows major European surveys Between Us at Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk (2023) and Le monde visible at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (2023–2024). Schutz tests the canvas as an affective space, depicting ambiguous, hypothetical and absurd scenes of singular, coupled or grouped figures. Her work prioritizes heightened psychological states and sensations through wet-on-wet painting, blending humour, joy, anxiety and hopelessness. The title One Big Animal evokes collective movement and unity, exemplified in the painting Walking Boat, where Cyclopes and figures undertake individual endeavours within a shared vessel.
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