Dena Schutzer “Wash and Fold”

Bowery Gallery

[Image: Dena Schutzer "Laundry– Blue and Yellow" (2017) oil on canvas 24 x 20 in.]

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Dena Schutzer’s third solo show at Bowery includes paintings and etchings that highlight the embrace of life in a Yonkers laundromat – what the artist calls “the intimate displays of the basic struggle to maintain order and dignity.” Other paintings reflect her interest in quiet visual excitements of daily life: a man in a park resting his head on a soda bottle, a mother’s tired, slightly impatient carrying of a child, the rhythmic blue shapes of a group of policemen on break.

In an essay for the exhibition catalog, Simon Carr writes, “The genius of these paintings is their Janus-like ability to face both the seen and the viewer, to bring us close to apparently mundane events, then, turning to us, reveal them as profoundly structured.”