Alex Katz

Overview

Alex Katz’s (1927–) idiosyncratic painterly style has earned Alex Katz a place as one of the most pre-eminent US artists. Going against the tendency toward abstraction modish at the time, Katz has devoted his career to markedly representational paintings.

Katz’s canvases – large, often multi-paneled – are populated with gestured, controlled lines and forms taken from life. Embracing the flatness of the canvas, filled with pared-down figures taken from the day-to-day, Katz both anticipated and embraced Pop Art motifs, while still carving out an aesthetic completely his own.

With a more recent tendency toward landscape and environmental painting, numerous public commissions, and a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2022, Katz continues to earn his spot at the vanguard of contemporary American painting.

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