Jackie wullschlager alex katz biography
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Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, and General Publications
2023
Alex Katz. Joe Brainard Flower Journals: Karma Books, 2023
Alex Katz. Cool Paintings. Gunhild Bauer und Klaus Albrecht Schröder, 2023
Alex Katz. Gunhild Bauer: Hatje cantz Verlag Gmbh Mrz, 2023
Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets. GRAY, Chicago, New York 2023
2022
Alex Katz. Dance & Theater: Penguin Random House, 2022
Ada. Brussels: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2022.
Alex Katz: Gathering. Guggenheim Museum, 2022
2021
Alex Katz. New York: Gladstone Gallery, 2021.
Alex Katz: TRAMPS. New York: Gladstone Gallery, 2021.
2020
Ratcliff, Carter, and Vincent Katz, eds. Alex Katz. New York: Rizzoli, 2020.
2019
Alex Katz. New York: Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 2019.
Alex Katz. Daegu: Daegu Museum of Art, 2019. Texts by Haekyung Kim and Jinmyung Lee.
2018
Models and Dancers. Seoul: Lotte Museum of Art, 2018. Interview by Derek Blasberg. Texts by Joo Eun Lee, Yoon Kyung Kwang and Calvin Klein.
Katz X Katz. New Haven: Yale School of Art /Edgewood Gallery, 2018.
Alex Katz Splits. Madrid: Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, 2018. Text by Yague, Christina.
Grass and Trees. New York: Richard Gray Gallery, 2018. Text by John Yau.
Alex Katz: Painting the Now. Munich: Brandhorst Museum of Art, 20
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Alex Katz and Etel Adnan at London’s Serpentine Gallery
by Wullschlager, Jackie
Alex Katz says his subjects are “quick things passing”. For nearly seven decades, this great American painter has stylised the human figure and landscape into big, bright, clean billboard-like compositions that both imitate how we see, and arrest a fleeting moment of time. An exhibition of new and recent work, Alex Katz, Quick Light, launched this week at London’s Serpentine Gallery, includes some of the most memorable works he has ever made, and confirms him as the most persuasive, honest and joyful figurative painter alive.
In the opening gallery, we confront, in just the way the face of a person before us fills our field of vision, a strong, familiar profile. High cheekbones, Roman nose, watchful eyes are outlined in a few careful yet exuberant contours on to a patch of skin tones, offset by a sweep of grey hair, caressed by a warm orange monochrome backdrop. Frontal light eliminates detail and flattens form. Ada, Katz’s 89-year-old wife and muse, is devastatingly glamorous in this simplified 2015 likeness: a contemporary Nefertiti, depicted monumentally but also somehow on our scale.
Katz relates his giant portraits to films: “the movie is life-size, but the faces are actually 20 feet
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Alex Katz: representation ‘artist take off the immediate’ on ground his constantly is now
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