PURCHASE, NY.- Even before she had reached the age of thirty, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Her imaginative work, filled with inventive stories and hypothetical situations, is strange, humorous, whimsical, disturbing, and oddly compelling, all at the same time. Combining fantasy and reality, humor and horror, her vibrant paintings abound with expressionist energy. From September 25 through December 18, 2011, the Neuberger Museum of Art will present Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, the first ten-year (2001-2011) survey of this extraordinary artist’s paintings and drawings. Featured are thirty paintings and twelve drawings, including work from each of her endlessly fascinating and innovative series — from Frank from Observation (2002), portraying the fictional life of Frank, the last man on earth as depicted by Schutz, the world’s last painter, to recent works from the