ALEX KATZ : Quick Light (SERPENTINE GALLERY)

8 Jun-11 Sep 2016

Overview

Alex Katz (b. 1927, USA) came of age as an artist at the height of Abstract Expressionism. Early studies at the modernist-based Cooper Union in New York City and plein air painting at the Skowhegan School in Maine were fundamental experiences for Katz. Influenced by films, television, and billboard advertising, Katz began exhibiting his work in 1954 and has produced a celebrated body of work that includes paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints. Over the past five and a half decades, he has established himself as a pre-eminent painter of modern life, whose distinctive portraits and landscapes reinvent both genres within the context of abstract painting and contemporary image-making. The Serpentine exhibition will bring together Katz’s extraordinarily productive output of recent years alongside works from across his career in an installation that responds and relates to the unique context of the Serpentine Gallery.