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Alex Katz
Education
1950 Skohigan School of Painting and Sculpture
1949 Cooper Union University
Solo
2022 Alex Katz, Galeria Monica de Cardenas Zuoz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Alex Katz Flowers, Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul, Korea
2021 Alex Katz, Tramps, New Yor
Alex Katz New Paintings, Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21st St
The White Coat, Richard Gray Gallery, Gray Warehouse, Chicag
Alex Katz - Floating Worlds curated by Eric de Chassey, Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France
Alex Katz Trees, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome
Alex Katz, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China. Etc.
Group
2021 30 Years in Paris Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris
2020 rawing 2020 Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21st Street, New York, NY
2019 Slab City Rendevous Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France. Etc.
Introduction
Alex Katz (1927~) is primarily a painter of portraits and landscapes. His works are characterized by simple and bold compositions, daring use of color, and restrained atmosphere, showcasing a modern realism that combines elements of abstraction and figuration, tradition and avant-garde. His pieces are part of collections in over 100 institutions worldwide, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Modern.
Artist's Note
‘Flowers are actually some of the most difficult forms to paint, because you have to capture the spatial aspect, their physicality, the surface of the flowers and the colours. You hope the whole painting will give the sensation of seeing a flower – the brilliance of that experience.’ ‘It was raining, and I cut flowers and put them in a vase and started painting them. Years later it’s the same process, but this time around, I was more interested in the flowers rather than the vase.’