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Grey/Gray

by Erik Wenzel
David Schutter at Tony Wight Gallery November 21st, 2008 - January 3rd, 2009
Posted 1/5/09

The condition of the practice has never been so concisely described as when Yves-Alain Bois titled a seminal essay “Painting the Task of Mourning.” (1) First published in the 1980s and then brought out again in the early 2000s for a landmark show at the Walker Art Center, Bois describes Robert Ryman as “the guardian at the tomb of Modernism,” a description that has stuck with me. I thought it might apply to the work of David Schutter, but it does not. For Schutter strad... [more]