Schutz's exhibition "Piano in the Rain" features her signature tropes of excess, taboo and mayhem, yet this time with a layer of sadness underneath. You get the sense her characters, though ultimately grotesque, are trying to connect, to impress, to perform, for you the viewer. Like the persistent piano player, hunched over in the rain, Schutz's characters possess an over-the-top desperation. 

"Building the Boat While Sailing",
2012, oil on canvas



"Piano in the Rain",
2012, oil on canvas


"Ear on Fire",
2012, oil on canvas


"Small Apartment",
2012, oil on canvas


"Hop", 2012, oil on canvas


"Flasher", 2012, oil on canvas


"Heroin in the Wind," 2012, oil on canvas


"Yellow Yawn," 2012, oil on canvas


"Yawn 2," 2012, oil on canvas


"Yawn 3," 2012, oil on canvas


"Yawn 4," 2012, oil on canvas


"Yawn 5," 2012, oil on canvas


"Falling Cat II," 2012, oil on canvas


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