Dana Schutz review – an orgy of gloop from the painter who outraged New York

<p><strong>Thomas Dane, London</strong> <br>The artist, whose painting of Emmett Till caused a scandal, is back with a grotesque, cartoonish, deeply political commentary on American society</p><p>Dana Schutz cakes her canvases in thick gobs of gooey paint. The American artist’s first proper London exhibition is a splodgy, orgiastic celebration of her material, but there are some big messages smuggled through if you can scratch your way towards them.</p><p>Schutz’s approach – which has seen her lauded as one of the most important figurative artists of her generation – is all about surface, brush strokes, colour and materiality. It’s painting for painters, real high-level art-nerd stuff. If you get your kicks losing yourself in layers of pigment and shadow, there’s enough here to keep you going for a while. But it’s Schutz’s grotesque, surreal, cartoony, metaphorical imagery that really makes the paintings tick.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/15/dana-schutz-one-big-animal-review-thomas-dane-london">Continue reading...</a>