Alex Katz: Grass and Trees
Richard Gray Gallery is pleased to announce Grass and Trees, a solo presentation of recent landscape paintings by Alex Katz.
The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 12 from 6 - 8 PM at Gray Warehouse, and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by poet and critic John Yau. A gallery talk with John Yau and literary critic and historian Ivy Wilson will take place at Gray Warehouse on Saturday, April 14 at 12 PM. Grass and Trees is the artist鈥檚 sixth exhibition with Richard Gray Gallery.
Alex Katz was approaching his 90th birthday when he began a new series of landscapes radically different from his earlier work. More loosely painted and expressively realized than any work to date, Grass and Trees debuts large-scale paintings which draw inspiration from three motifs 鈥� grasses, roads, and trees. Prompted by the immediacy of nature outside his studio in Maine, these landscapes, like vignettes, are swift, evocative, and specific. While the 鈥淩oad鈥� and 鈥淭rees鈥� paintings veer toward his signature graphic style, Katz鈥檚 鈥淕rass鈥� compositions are freely gestural, offering an engulfing sense of space. As one example: Grass 5, depicts nothing more than sunspots and flecks of light on the grass yet measures a heroic 9 x 18 feet. As Yau notes in his catalogue essay, "... the size of these paintings is immersive. They recall Pollock鈥檚 panoramic drip paintings, which ignored the canvas鈥檚 physical edges and seemed to extend beyond the painting鈥檚 actual limits. You are not looking at a landscape; you are in it.鈥�
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Richard Gray Gallery is pleased to announce Grass and Trees, a solo presentation of recent landscape paintings by Alex Katz.
The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 12 from 6 - 8 PM at Gray Warehouse, and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by poet and critic John Yau. A gallery talk with John Yau and literary critic and historian Ivy Wilson will take place at Gray Warehouse on Saturday, April 14 at 12 PM. Grass and Trees is the artist鈥檚 sixth exhibition with Richard Gray Gallery.
Alex Katz was approaching his 90th birthday when he began a new series of landscapes radically different from his earlier work. More loosely painted and expressively realized than any work to date, Grass and Trees debuts large-scale paintings which draw inspiration from three motifs 鈥� grasses, roads, and trees. Prompted by the immediacy of nature outside his studio in Maine, these landscapes, like vignettes, are swift, evocative, and specific. While the 鈥淩oad鈥� and 鈥淭rees鈥� paintings veer toward his signature graphic style, Katz鈥檚 鈥淕rass鈥� compositions are freely gestural, offering an engulfing sense of space. As one example: Grass 5, depicts nothing more than sunspots and flecks of light on the grass yet measures a heroic 9 x 18 feet. As Yau notes in his catalogue essay, "... the size of these paintings is immersive. They recall Pollock鈥檚 panoramic drip paintings, which ignored the canvas鈥檚 physical edges and seemed to extend beyond the painting鈥檚 actual limits. You are not looking at a landscape; you are in it.鈥�
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