Sarah Schumann: Shock and Beauty

‘Women, in more or less abstract landscapes, are the subject of many of my works,’ Schumann noted in 1975. ‘There are biographical reasons for this - but I am also of the opinion that under today’s production conditions, no female artist can spare herself the discussion about the relationship between her art and her gender, it is a necessary part of her work.’

A solo exhibition of collages, photographs, and paintings by Sarah Schumann (GER, 1933-2019), a Surrealist feminist artist who was based in Berlin until her death in 2019. This presentation of significant works from 1959-1998 is Sarah Schumann’s inaugural exhibition in Los Angeles. A figurative painter and collagist, Schumann drew on her personal life as a queer artist to create heroic depictions of women in post-war Europe.