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Collection of Irving and Lucy Sandler
"Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s"
Venue: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville (2015)
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
2016
Duesseldorf,
2016
London,
2015
Solo Shows
2017
Schaan / Liechtenstein,
2017
Munich,
2016
Calabasas,
2016
2016
San Francisco,
2016
London,
2016
2016
2015
Schaan / Liechtenstein,
2015
Group Shows
2016
Duesseldorf,
2015
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac,
Paris-Pantin, 2014
