The great American painter Alex Katz turns 98 today
See our posting (from back in 2014) – here – and (from 2023) – here
Many Happy Returns, Alex!
Currently on show at the Colby Museum of Art, Maine (repository of well over 900 of his works) (and on show through to next March) – “Repetitions” -which includes this great work (from 1985):
and at the (Richard) Gray Gallery, Chicago, “White Lotus” a selection of relatively recent paintings (that show runs through to September 20)
“The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper and sculpture.”
The catalog and the title of the show takes its name from poet James Schuyler‘s signature poem “Salute” (We’ll be featuring Schuyler in a forthcoming posting) – “Past is past, and if one/ remembers what one meant/ to do and never did, is/not to have thought to do enough? Like that gather-/ing of one of each I/ planned to gather one/ of each kind of clover/daisy, paintbrush that/grew in that field/ the cabin stood in and/study them one afternoon/before they wilted. Past /is past. I salute/that various field”)
Some Reviews of the ’22 Guggenheim show:
Amanda Fortini in the New York Times (preview)
Linda Yablonsky in Artforum (at the opening) (& Jill Krementz – here)
“Four Painters on Alex Katz” (Artforum)
Roberta Smith in the New York Times
Andrew I Shea in the Wall Street Journal
David Carrier for Hyperallergic
Saul Ostrow in The Brooklyn Rail
Tom McGlynn in The Brooklyn Rail
Barry Schwabsky for Burlington Contemporary
Gabe Hirscowitz for Vogue
