Creativity in motion: How painter Alex Katz partners with performers
by Jennifer Wolcott
Jan 24, 2023
4 minutes
Since first putting paintbrush to canvas almost eight decades ago, American artist Alex Katz has been featured in nearly 500 group exhibitions and headlined more than 250 solo shows around the world. His depictions of joyful family celebrations and pleasant social gatherings, often rendered in flat forms, vivid colors, and on a large scale, are now iconic.
In fact, his portraits of people mixing and mingling are such trademarks that a current retrospective devoted to the still-prolific painter at New York’s Guggenheim Museum is aptly titled “Alex Katz: Gathering.”
Also widely shown and highly recognizable are his numerous paintings of Ada, his wife of 64
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