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STUDIOS: Dana Schutz’s Weird Thoughts While Painting
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“So if [the situation] is ‘How do you eat your own face?’ You need a face – to be eaten. There are certain thoughts that come to mind, unwanted thoughts… Sometimes they happen when you’re in the shower.” —Dana Schutz
Born in Livonia, Michigan – a suburb of Detroit – Dana Schutz is one of the most celebrated – and controversial – painters of her generation. Visited by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in her Brooklyn studio, Dana Schutz imagines the moment when a painting becomes “more than just material, and more than just a picture.” She describes how her paintings begin as absurd moments and evolve as bodies with their own logic.