David Zwirner is pleased to present new work by Dana Schutz (b. 1976) at 525 and 533 West 19th Street in New York. This will be Schutz’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and coincides with the major survey Dana Schutz: The Visible World, on view from October 2023 to February 2024 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, where it traveled from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.

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 works convey emotions and psychological states of mind that reveal the complications, tensions, and ambiguities of contemporary life. The exhibition will debut a new body of large-scale paintings that depict post-calamitous scenarios, and will also present new sculptures by the artist. Modeled in malleable clay before being cast in bronze, these works give three-dimensional form to Schutz’s imagined characters and scenes.

On the occasion of the exhibition, David Zwirner Books will publish a catalogue featuring newly commissioned essays on the artist’s work by Jarrett Earnest and Kenneth Silver. Additionally, a new Phaidon monograph on Schutz’s work will be released in the fall that includes contributions from Hamza Walker, Dan Nadel, and Lynne Tillman.

Image: Dana Schutz, The Island, 2023. © Dana Schutz.