Frieze Los Angeles

David Zwirner is pleased to feature new works by Michaël Borremans and Dana Schutz, as well as a presentation of significant paintings by Lisa Yuskavage from 2005–2015, at this year’s edition of Frieze LA.

Over the last twenty years, Michaël Borremans has gained international recognition for his innovative approach to painting. His new paintings in this presentation are imbued with pending questions and underlying tensions that operate on multiple registers. The artist seemingly revisits subject matter from his own body of work, introducing new and varied meanings in every iteration of his mysterious compositions. Combining technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation, Borremans’s charged canvases address universal themes with a specifically contemporary complexity.

Also on view will be significant new paintings and new works on paper, as well as a bronze sculpture, by Dana Schutz. She is known for formally inventive canvases that combine figuration and abstraction to construct complex visual narratives that engage the capacity of painting to represent subjective experience. Often depicting figures in seemingly impossible, enigmatic, or invented situations, her expressive works convey emotions and psychological states of mind that reveal the complications, tensions, and ambiguities of contemporary life. A major solo exhibition of Schutz’s work spanning her two-decade career recently opened at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and is on view through June 11, 2023.

The selection of paintings by Lisa Yuskavage span a 10-year period in her oeuvre (2005-2015) and demonstrate the artist's highly original approach to the medium that has challenged conventional understandings of figurative painting. Her simultaneously bold, eccentric, exhibitionist, and introspective characters assume dual roles of subject and object, complicating the position of viewership. At times playful and harmonious, and at other times rueful and conflicted, these characters are cast within fantastical compositions in which realistic and abstract elements coexist and color determines meaning.

Image caption: Michaël Borremans, Study for Commuter, 2021 (detail)