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Dana Schutz — Reformers
Dana Schutz

Reformers

In *Reformers*, Dana Schutz employs her signature frenetic brushwork and vivid, clashing palette to depict figures caught in a state of urgent, almost convulsive transformation. The human forms appear simultaneously fragmented and interconnected, dissolving into one another as flesh, gesture, and color collapse into a charged, chaotic whole. Schutz's characteristically compressed pictorial space amplifies the sense of collective struggle, suggesting both the violence and the vitality inherent in the act of change.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

May 15, 2014

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Dana Schutz, Reformers

In *Reformers*, Dana Schutz employs her signature frenetic brushwork and vivid, clashing palette to depict figures caught in a state of urgent, almost convulsive transformation. The human forms appear simultaneously fragmented and interconnected, dissolving into one another as flesh, gesture, and color collapse into a charged, chaotic whole. Schutz's characteristically compressed pictorial space amplifies the sense of collective struggle, suggesting both the violence and the vitality inherent in the act of change.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Mixed Forms, Bold Colors, American, Expressionism, Energetic, Social Commentary, Abstract, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary

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