ike a camera zooming in, Alex Katz takes viewers high into the branches of a tree. The thick, black boughs of radiant yellow leaves fill our vision, and we are engulfed in the tree’s movement as it shifts in the wind to reveal glimpses of a clear, blue sky. (2020) evokes the vibrant energy of life in present tense, capturing a fleeting instant of beauty with vivid, penetrating sensation. Katz reveals how painting can bring us to a more
