Alex Katz – Gathering, at the Guggenheim

Across eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz (b. 1927 Brooklyn, New York) has sought to capture visual experience in the present tense. “Eternity exists in minutes of absolute awareness.” Katz stated in 1961. “Painting, when successful, seems to be a synthetic reflection of this condition.” Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of “quick things passing,” compressing the flux of everyday life into a vivid burst of optical perception. Katz is known as “a painter’s painter.” This retrospective—including his early experimental work—shows why.

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Sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Library.