Untitled (Poisoned Man)

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Known for originating a kind of new neo-expressionist aesthetic as a painter, Dana Schutz produced this woodblock relief print in collaboration with the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. Skillfully adapting her painterly language to printmaking, Schutz used innovative techniques to create relief in this disarming portrait. Untitled (Poisoned Man) is a commemorative portrait of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, who was allegedly poisoned by fellow government agents. States the artist, "My paintings are loosely based on meta-narratives.... Still lifes 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...."

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