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Alex Katz is best known for his eye-catching, large-scale portraits, figures,
and landscapes, but he has also painted intimate works, and makes small
"sketches" using oil paint on Masonite board, for every large
painting. Although Katz considers the large works to be his major productions,
akin to a public performance "without a net," the small paintings
are rehearsals that reveal not only how he works but more importantly why
he is interested in a particular subject. Co-curated by the Addison Gallery
of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Whitney
Museum of American Art, this exhibition of approximately eighty works focused
on the achievement and significance of Katz's small paintings-the first
American museum exhibition to do so. |
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