Alex Katz: Repetitions
Alex Katz (b. 1927) transforms the people and places that comprise his two homes鈥擭ew York City and Lincolnville, Maine鈥攊nto powerful images that reflect his enchantment with modern life and his dedication to painting. He makes landscapes representing his everyday surroundings, portraits of close friends and family, and genre scenes featuring members of his creative circles.
This installation of the Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz highlights different strategies of repetition in Katz鈥檚 art, focusing on four words that describe this defining aspect of his artistic practice: reflection, recurrence, reduplication, and re-creation. Each captures a different, yet overlapping, meaning that emphasizes how repetition鈥攆or Katz, and for us鈥攐ffers a set of creative tools for observing the world and connecting to it intentionally.
Over seventy-plus years, Katz鈥檚 bold and rigorous experiments with light, composition, scale, and collaboration have captured his commitment to present-tense experience. These same experiments constitute an expansive record of his intergenerational artistic community.
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Alex Katz (b. 1927) transforms the people and places that comprise his two homes鈥擭ew York City and Lincolnville, Maine鈥攊nto powerful images that reflect his enchantment with modern life and his dedication to painting. He makes landscapes representing his everyday surroundings, portraits of close friends and family, and genre scenes featuring members of his creative circles.
This installation of the Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz highlights different strategies of repetition in Katz鈥檚 art, focusing on four words that describe this defining aspect of his artistic practice: reflection, recurrence, reduplication, and re-creation. Each captures a different, yet overlapping, meaning that emphasizes how repetition鈥攆or Katz, and for us鈥攐ffers a set of creative tools for observing the world and connecting to it intentionally.
Over seventy-plus years, Katz鈥檚 bold and rigorous experiments with light, composition, scale, and collaboration have captured his commitment to present-tense experience. These same experiments constitute an expansive record of his intergenerational artistic community.
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