Dana Schutz "Imagine Me and You" at PETZEL

[@theviewer5104]

wow! watching this today....two years ago.....people together crowded no masks..heaven :) tnx for the video

[@guzzopinc1646]

The thing I like about Dana Schutz is that she is making monumental figurative paintings that don't feel forced or fake. It's one of the fiercest arenas of competition in the painting world and Schutz is clearly one of the heavyweights. Who else would you say is unquestionably making work this strong in this category?

[@dennisdalesandro6105]

pretty masterful! I'm picking up loads of guston, and michaelangelo of all people especially in that last one... most impressive, great job james. When i watch great openings like this, with all the people i recognize, i feel like I'm watching a home movie of a family party that i'm missing, a family that I've yet to meet in person.

[@Nosbert]

I was waiting for your video on her show James!! Thank you (and Kate!) for posting and sharing NY shows! Hello from Montréal!! 🇨🇦 :D

[@smilevibes]

Thank you so much for these videos. As an artist it means a great deal to me, that you care to take the time to document these beautiful works of art.

[@michaeldesmond6927]

Knock out show! something of an autobiography in the art references included in the paintings and of course in the subject matter. Handled with real originality and with verve! Thanks for posting.

[@johncastle8254]

Great to see her emerge bigger and stronger ,love the use of greys and darker colours ,beautiful use of oil paint and colour .

[@riverlocqa]

Loren, Cindy and I watched this again...amazing coverage...

[@sthings4u]

Great show and always enjoy your comments.Your camera work is so much better these days.

[@chriserskineartist]

Great great great work. Love Dana work, never disappoints. I agreed with your comments on scale, she really makes it work for her. The variety of texture and colour is amazing. There are so many elements from the past, but it seems so fresh and new. The sculptures are good and worth serious attention. I am not a big fan of painters branching out to sculptures, few are successful at it, but Dana really pulls it off. You know you are a good artist when the opening crowd is so diverse in age and experience. It shows you got the respect of both emerging and established artists which is thrilling, how many of us get that! Again, thank you James and Kate for documenting Dana’s development over 10 plus years as an artist. I don’t think anyone has ever done what you have done with your living in the moment documentations. We are all richer for your efforts. Thank You.

[@anawieder5003]

This was I think her best show ever, the paintings are stunning in color and paint handling, they are psychologically darker and I think more moving then anything I’ve seen (and I’ve always been a passionate lover of her work) I think the sculptures are great, of course they’re not going to be as good as the paintings, it’s a newer medium for her and there’s always going to be a learning curve.

[@ziraprod6090]

Better contrast than the lazier shows.

[@superfly2449]

Is that a Klingon princess? I really dig these paintings! Goya meets Bugs Bunny. Sculpture, not so much, but that could change.

[@artbyty]

Love these paintings. Really great comments about the brushwork. I learned something.

[@LockedPig]

I'm feeling Philip Guston vibes!

[@dustyeyer3573]

Im way too poor to ever see any NYC shows, as always thank you so much Sir! Dana is the Millennial Picasso!

[@femkekuiling9972]

I'm here after watching your outsider art report where you referred to her and it's clear why you did. It's interesting to see her development. Yes, something had to change it seems in order for her to not just repeat herself. But, I hope these paintings are just a way to transition to something else....maybe more sculpture? The sculptures are the most interesting in my opinion. Oh, I do like the one with the fingers. It's a bit more complicated than the rest.

[@johnlawson7306]

Twisted Demons A Go Go, Dance Macabre with a side of Bacon, Breakfast of Scorpions, Soutine Crackers topped with Placenta Pate.....Smells like Teen Spirit. Food for Thought

[@lawrencetarpey373]

Super talent. Great show!

[@sonnycorbi1970]

I find I’d hard to watch this - Isn’t Dana Schultz the Artist that painted severed legs - it’s been so long ago I can’t remember what I was looking at? I don’t know I never did know I suppose - Anyway I will google Dana and check out her work - James that piece you pointed out as being “probably” your favorite piece in the show is mine too - Picasso arms and legs. -

[@mrbr0wn215]

thankyou!

[@jeffroysdon]

Undeniably great but I get this weird Hallmark Card Shoebox Greetings thing. If it,s there she wants it there- that,s for sure but I wish it wasn't

[@rlund651]

Thanks for posting, another great post. The paintings are brilliant. Her use of color is amazing. Her paint textures are wonderful. I don't think her sculptures translate well. Another artist making gloppy crude sculptures. This kind of sculptures are so trendy now.

[@sonnycorbi1970]

Richard Lund - The word “trendy” could be? A wrong choice of words - Visual Art is journalism, in real time, both collectively and individually - perhaps ‘emotional’ journalism, if that’s possible - I have been a practicing visual Artist for many many years; I don’t paint or produce Visual Art as much as I use to - I just completed a piece I am happy with - I am just talking to a mirror- I do realize this -

[@guzzopinc1646]

not crazy about the varnish but still one of the best living painters

[@jameskalmroughcut]

I don't think she's using varnish, but maybe some stand oil, or other medium to get that shine...

[@guzzopinc1646]

@@jameskalmroughcut do you think she goes over the finished painting with a stand oil mix or just adds it to all of her paint in a consistent manner? i prefer to see different levels of shine on paintings that help give the piece history --and the paintings you videotaped looked very singular in their gloss... in any event, finish is a small detail when the paintings are great to start out with.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

@@guzzopinc1646 Perhaps I didn't capture the surface character of all the paintings, but there's a lot of variations, so I'd guess that the stand oil (or what ever might be added) is mixed in with the paint, not added over as in a regular varnishing.

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Thank you Kate

[@kellyhiggins4234]

I don't understand why so many people always say they don't go because they can't afford it !! I myself go to lots of exhibits you look for the daily SPEACIALS and go to them during their rides at your local museums there's always a way to see art without a huge cost especially in Boston too boot!! Just Google exhibits in Boston and or search period its great to take your family as well I hope this helps those commenting that they can't afford to go to exhibits art surrounds us remember feeding your soul is important too!! Thank you !! 👒👒🎩🎩🎩👞👟👜👔👠💄

[@jameskalmroughcut]

The commercial galleries here in New York don't charge admission, but you might spend money on transport or food and entertainment afterwords...

[@selwynr]

The Guston influence is overwhelming. Not that that's a bad thing!

[@ziraprod6090]

The "puckering" is from a lot of linseed oil being added but not completely mixed.

[@PumpkinCandleGetLit]

utilizing the bigger is better rule

[@kimwilkie9819]

thank you Kate

[@MikeWitmerNatureJournal]

Balthus + Diego Rivera + David Park + George Tooker + DeKooning sculpture + Guston + self conscious painting disguised as risk taking painting...not that there's anything wrong with it.

[@johncastle8254]

Close up surface looks great .

[@andrewdredge1558]

thanks champ

[@MrRemorseless]

3:40 is he a painter? how do you spell his name?

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Phong Bui, yes he is an artist, and also the publisher of the "Brooklyn Rail" (I've known him for years).

[@Frühobst]

my favorite painting was the lying naked lady with the green eyes. showing the whole human body. the human body always gets me because it always relates to me, because obviously I have one and we all have one. the other paintings really dont affect me too much. too similar to this american painter who painted gods finger and cartoonish style, very famous. but in the finger painting she almost copied his style.

[@johnkesling]

Margaret Glaspy at 10:05?

👌

[@msolbakken]

I can smell the paint!

[@WPyzik]

grande ! très !

[@Art_Travel_and_Hobbys]

Dana Shutz good...👍

[@oleskovgaard7529]

Nice show - but a little too much the eighties. A mix of Die Neue Wilden and street-art. Don’t miss that period.

[@xxxxxx-pv6fs]

So many awkward shots of Avery Singer in here 3:45 😂

[@danyal_lynn]

I hate the surface level discussion around the ethics in subject matter. When you grab the lowest hanging fruit and capitalize on the BLM movement in terms of trolling, controversy- Promotion (you know, the real currency of the 21 century) it just highlights the lack of taste and respect in her creative movements as an artist. I remember reading something about how people need to own their experience And the Emmett Til piece screams of someone who has nothing to say but has to say something. Everything about Dana is immediate. And of course she has the agency to paint whatever her heart desires But I don’t expect her to provide any substance to the discourse. Initially I thought it was a cool shift from the face eating and hazardous lollipops. But then her non-reaction to the criticism of her “work”. The lectures, wet paintings and this recent shift back to the comfort of the box she’s created for herself - is pretty lame for someone who’s “made it” in the art world.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

Thanks for your response Daniel Jones. Although as I state in the video, and having known Dana and her work for about fifteen years, I think she's probably one of the gentlest and most compassionate souls you find out there in the art world. Viciously attacking her as a symbol might not be the most positive way of promoting a cause(?)

[@danyal_lynn]

@@jameskalmroughcut Viciously attacking. That's funny.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

@@danyal_lynn Yeah, publicly demanding that an artist's work be destroyed, is hilarious...

[@danyal_lynn]

@@jameskalmroughcut No, but I wonder what would drive someone to say that about Open Casket. What I do find hilarious is that Dana foresaw the response and your issue is with the people offended(?) There's an elephant in the room James and your 15 year bias is showing.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

@@danyal_lynn NOW I'M OFFENDED, and please, have the conman decency to leave the innocent elephant's out of this (as I'm sure they'll be offended now too). As for the fifteen years bias, yeah, I've been around a while (a lot longer than the fifteen years and over 1,300 KZbin vids you might be referring to), and I've seen stuff like this before. There are plenty of things to resist and protest regarding the establishment art scene, the art market, institutions like the museums and art publications. Dana is not what I'd call an "appropriate target" as a "symbol" to focus your rage on. But, that's the way art history is made... The other part that does offend me is that the "Open Casket" painting ain't that good, as a painting. I was at the press preview of the Biennial, and "Open Casket" didn't compare to Dana's other pieces. I wondered at the time why the curators picked it, and why they hung it away from her other pieces. Nobody's talking about the actual "work of art". The painting "Open Casket" is now more historically significant, worth more on the market. The protesters got plenty of notice in the art press, and have been invited to take part in other ventures. The Whitney Biennial has something like a scandal, which makes it seem edgy. Everybody gets to voice their opinions, and show their virtue. It's all a plus-plus.

[@zazzyman]

Another episode of name the referent...

[@M0D60]

George Condo

[@herminegittleman3076]

Yummy!

[@dario1965]

Amazing work, thanks for sharing it. Would love to see it in person.

[@gogo-word]

Tremendously weird!