"Still lives become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive.. In my work, I imagine a place, a moment, a fictional situation, which meshes the premise of a practical situation with the absurd."
—Dana SchutzDana Schutz’s playful red poppies see the artist bring her distinctive lyrical brushwork and absurdist, multi-focal compositions to a floral array. Red Flowers personifies its titular subjects as the two blossoms seemingly burst from the canvas. Schutz has proved herself to be a generation-defining artist whose work has transformed contemporary painting. Ultra-imaginative and nearly hallucinatory, the present work shakes up the traditional still life in a manner only to be expected of Dana Schutz.
