
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Dana Schutz (b. 1976) at its Paris location. In her work, Schutz constructs complex, allegorical visual narratives that engage the capacity of art to represent subjective experience. Often depicting figures in seemingly impossible, enigmatic, or invented situations, her works reveal the deeper complications, tensions, and ambiguities of contemporary life. This is Schutz’s second solo show with the gallery, and her first in Paris since her major survey presentation Dana Schutz: Le Monde Visible (The Visible World) was held at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris in 2023–2024.
Dana Schutz is known for formally inventive canvases that combine figuration and abstraction to construct complex visual narratives that engage the capacity of painting to represent subjective experience. Often depicting figures in seemingly impossible, enigmatic, or invented situations, her expressive canvases convey emotions and psychological states of mind that reveal the complications, tensions, and ambiguities of contemporary life.





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