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Alex Katz’s BIG LIFESTYLE

Yellow House # 2, 2001, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 in., Courtesy of Pace Wildenstein, NY, in Alex Katz in Maine, at PAFA Alex Katz in Maine, the show of 40-some odd of his Maine paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, has a strange tension between the portraits, which have a coloring-book/billboard quality, and the nature pictures, which mostly–but not exclusively–focus on gesture (well, at least self-conscious, reductive Katzian gesture). The work is mannered, more about style than about the content. (Sorry, but I’m tired of running images of the kid with the fish and the ... More » »

Katz’s pictures of Maine at the PAFA

Cut-out of Vincent, Katz’s son – “Trophy III” This summer the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art features the work of New York-based painter Alex Katz, (b. 1927) in an exhibit that opened June 24th. “Alex Katz in Maine” features nearly 40 paintings completed between 1958 and 2006 while the artist summered in Skowhegan, Maine. Especially attractive were the two cut-outs, which preserve his abstract approach in representing his subject, but remain edgy in lacking right-angles. There were two cut-outs in the exhibit: “Trophy III” (see above), and a cut-out of a cow, which greets you immediately when you enter the ... More » »

Art for sale!

DSCN0998.JPGOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Image is a Stephan Balkenhol carving and a Candida Hofer photograph from Pier 90 at the Armory Show. The small figure seeming to look at the big picture is kind of how I felt when I walked around the huge international show. We went to the Armory Show Thursday afternoon. And for four hours we marched up and down Pier 92 and Pier 90 on the Hudson River looking at work in 154 booths by exhibitors from around the world. What struck me most (apart from the weariness factor of being bombarded visually by all that ... More » »