“Alex Katz: Gathering,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 2021 "Alex Katz: New Paintings," Gladstone Gallery, New York "Alex Katz," TRAMPS, New York "Alex Katz," Gladstone Gallery, Beijing, China "Alex Katz – Floating Worlds," Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France 2020 "...
The large-scale landscape and flower paintings in Alex Katz's recent exhibition are luminous paeans both to painterly gesture and to elementary color and form. A few of the landscapes might even pass for ions: Green Shadows, 2001, is mostly a furious scumble of dark brushwork; a handful of...
Essays by artists, writers and art historians offer fresh, authoritative overviews of the artist's practice alongside more focused considerations of specific facets of his art, including his flower paintings, collages, prints, freestanding "cutouts" and set design collaborations with the Paul Taylor ...