How Artist-Run Galleries Shaped New York’s Downtown Art Scene
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Signature: Each signed, numbered and dated in pencil and contained in the original aluminum case.
About Alex Katz
New York School painter Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation. His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art. Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum.
American, b. 1927, New York, New York, based in New York, New York
Exhibition Highlights On Artsy
2016
Recent acquisitions Fall 2016, Ludorff, Duesseldorf
2016
East Building Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Washington
2016
Alex Katz, Serpentine Galleries, London
2015
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
2014
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) Saturday, June 21 – Sunday, July 27, Guild Hall, East Hampton
Solo Shows on Artsy
2017
ALEX KATZ - 90 YEARS, Aurifer AG, Schaan / Liechtenstein
2017
HOMMAGE À ALEX KATZ, Galerie Klüser, Munich
2016
Alex Katz: Recent Works, Kenneth A. Friedman & Co., Calabasas
2016
Alex Katz: Ladies & Landscapes, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
2016
Alex Katz: New and Recent works, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco
2016
Alex Katz, Serpentine Galleries, London
2016
Alex Katz: Present Tense (New York), Richard Gray Gallery, New York
2016
Alex Katz: Present Tense (Chicago), Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
2015
Alex Katz Works on paper and recent prints, Aurifer AG, Schaan / Liechtenstein
2015
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
Group Shows on Artsy
2016
Recent acquisitions Fall 2016, Ludorff, Duesseldorf
2016
East Building Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Washington
2015
SPACE AGE - GROUP EXHIBITION, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Pantin
2014
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) Saturday, June 21 – Sunday, July 27, Guild Hall, East Hampton
2012
Galerie Sabine Knust at IFPDA Print Fair 2012, Galerie Sabine Knust
