Alex Katz: Gathering
Alex Katz: Gathering The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper and sculptureAcross eight decades of intense…
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Alex Katz: Gathering
The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper and sculptureAcross eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz has sought to capture a state of "absolute awareness" in paint. Published on the occasion of the artist's first US career retrospective in more than 30 years, Alex Katz: Gathering offers a definitive account of Katz's artistic project, demonstrating both its marked coherence and restless evolution. Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of "quick things passing," compressing the flux of everyday life into a condensed burst of optical perception.
Generously illustrated, the book features the full breadth of the artist's work across mediums and formats, from intimate