Dana Schutz: Jupiter’s Lottery at DAVID ZWIRNER 

Thank you Kate! ❤

Thank you!!! So good to see the impressions here in Germany. Ans special thanks for the close ups

So AWESOME ! Again, thanks for showing!

Thank you Kate !

Thank you Loren. Your video reports make my day!

Oh boy new Dana Schutz.thank you sir.

Thank you!!!!

Thank you James, thanks Kate!

Thank you James

Love these Paintings and sculptures. Yes l can see Guston in her work , but wait ... Picasso and Beckman and Dana Schutz, all of these and more. Love ❤️ her work . Another brilliant presentation THANK YOU KATE and JAMES. Don't stop doing this l will be lost . Michael in Melbourne

So good. Thanks for sharing, James!

You're the best. Didn't get to see it yet

James this was so thrilling with a great Big show by a great painter with the battery dying so exciting! You always look where I want you to look you examine the work as I do when I’m there in person. Thank you so so so much. 🙏 🎨

wowwwww what a wonderful report on one of the leading contemporary figurative painters. Thanks, James! Love from the Philippines.

Thank you for sharing this show. 🙂 Lovely works. Reminds me off some of ken kiff's paintings as well like you said Philip Guston.

In addition to seeing some of Philip Guston’s work here, the Mexican muralists and James Ensor also come to mind. An impressive well painted show. Thanks James and Kate.

Tusen takk kate 🎉

I see some of the gesturing of Philip Guston - great show - monumental

Wow-ee-wow-wow!! ❤

Monumental show! What a treat! Thank you James and Kate!

Do you think the people attending the opening know that there are paintings on the walls?

Thanks heaps for this! Brava to her on a spectacular show! In recent years she's emerged as Guston's most original, surprising and ambitious disciple. Where she breaks away from him, her wriggle room, is in her rich, unexpected palette and a larger cast of characters - more women, Guston rarely painted them. Plus, she's still young and will work through her major influence over time, and I guess the sculptures are a part of this process - looks like she's been looking at de Kooning sculptures as well. The paintings superficially have a 'late paintings' look, but again that's a matter of late Guston informing the work. Another strategy of overcoming her Guston crush is uping the ante - some of these paintings are so spectacularly, apocalyptically, goofily grotesque that you do wonder if they will be of lasting aesthetic value, but what else is one of the most exciting painters in the world to do as we all wobble on the precipice of global collapse and extinction? And no one will look at paintings on a dead planet, so the shrieking, mannered, rambunctious lunacy and gargantuan grotesquerie of these paintings clamor to be looked at NOW - there is no future that these works gesture towards because they're pitched at such a level of comic horror that the next step would be a plunge into collapse, madness, diabolical, cacophonous buffoonery - now there's a thought. Let's she if she dares go there - or retreats to safer ground (I kinda hope not - because our leaders seem hell-bent on charging headlong into the abyss and can you paint a nice still life as the world burns? Well, perhaps THAT would be the ultime middle finger to the psycopaths devouring and waging war on our collective future - not that they're listening - capitalistic and imperialistic psycopaths don't, no matter how loud we scream or paint. Also, I wonder if she's read Nathaniel West? Ralph Ellison? There's something of their nightmarish comic grotesquerie here too.

Thank you for sharing as always James! greetings from up north! (Montreal) btw, was that Jerry @6:09 ? xD two favorites in one video! what a treat! Thank you Kate!

I would say that Dana's influences predate Guston, that she is primarily influenced by Ensor and Soutine.

Guston, Beckman and maybe later Paula Rego? Thanks Kate!

Wonderful show! Thank you for bringing it to us. Thank you James and Kate

Love your vids! Thank you Kate. (Who is Kate?)

Again thank you James (and Kate?) I enjoyed the bravura and physicality of the the paint - clay work. Phillip Guston references indeed - also Tracey Emin’s bronzes - The problem any thinking figurative painter faces is the politics of representation - and ‘Cancel Culture’ these are issues Neo Rauch’s work also faces - whatever’s- Bravo to Jupiter’s triumph of the times - G

big Condo vibes, as if the approach to create was sprung by the motion of the next stroke- How pre conceived are these works from start to finish?

This work captures the anxiety we feel about politics, war and the future of the planet. It is therefore unpleasant for me to view. The sculptures just seem for the most part chaotic and freakish though I agree with James that the smaller sculptures seem more cohesive.

only a supported established artist can confidently invest the time and lot of $s to make this type of monumental art. wonder how much of it has sold and whether the gallery has acquired the works. interesting. thanks J&K

Busy, articulate surface. But that's all I get from it. Though, it is interesting for a moment.

It's always nice when an artist can share her post-traumatic experiences with us. In my opinion, the shitstorm over her 2017 Emmet Till painting was very inappropriate.

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Bad painting became a norm. Exiting times we are living in. Ask yourself a question, do you want to live with these works the rest of your life?!

I get a Condo feeling, perhaps blended with Georg Grosz.

I saw the Guston Show at the National Gallery, It was amazing, I think it was unfair to label him as racist because Guston was Jewish and the KKK went after Jews too, burning synogogues and Jewish owned stores, Maybe not as much as Black people but still significant, The harm they caused to Jews and Asians should not be forgotten, Also in addition to Guston I'm getting Robert Colescott vibes here

Seems to be riffing on George Condo to some extent.

I'd hazard the claim that Schutz is the most important living western painter. Every show contains examples of outright genius. The nihilistic, macabre, and ironic sense of humor and contradicting seriousness of approach produce paintings that accurately document the splintering and schizoid consiousness of the first world. To show these paintings now (even the weak ones) is nauseating. I wonder how she feels. The paintings hardly let on to her inner state they seem more like mirrors or oracles. More Dana give us more!!

The sculptures are more interesting than the paintings. The whole point about Guston's work is that it's beautiful, despite the iconography. There's nothing wilful, strained or grotesque about it.

That list of paintings and sculptures floor plan is not that hard to read. Makes me wonder how complicated your paintings are. And liking specific colors doesn't have to mean she copied Guston. That's not how it works. We just paint how we paint.

That’s one fucked up hematoma… She’s moving to a more Expressionist style like Kokoschka, Nolde and Beckmann. 🙏😄

What a scam. Feels like a twilight zone episode where everyone's pretending this is something important

God, I hate receptions/openings...not many really interested in the art.

The very least you can do when reviewing an artist, especially the incomparable Dana Schutz, is LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEIR NAME!

WOW

Thank you Kate!

Thank you Kate!