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 galleri, 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 bygd 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.
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Alex Katz: the ‘artist of the immediate’ on why his time is now
“Painting is going very well. And outside of that, it’s all pretty crappy,” says Alex Katz, over the phone from New York. The indefatigable 93-year-old artist has just released a new book with Rizzoli, another monograph. This one is larger and fuller than previous publications – there are more than 250 paintings, alongside photographs, sketches and ephemera; works by other artists, which give insight into Katz’s process and ethos; and an enjoyably thorough essay by the art critic Carter Ratcliff.
The book is square and enormous. This heft suits Katz’s current mood as he focuses – sometimes angrily, sometimes humorously – on declaring that he is a brilliant painter who has been underappreciated and largely misunderstood. It’s true that Katz, while popular in Europe – “people wait outside my hotel for autographs” – and liked by the young, is not so adored in his home city of New York, where he has not had a major sur
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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