ALEX KATZ: THE ‘ARTIST OF THE IMMED’ ON WHY HIS TIME IS NOW “Style and taste are key to Katz – in a subject, he looks at the lipstick, the handbag, the haircut. The smile. The neat black dress. The “artefacts of the culture”, as he puts it. Despite his grumblings, Katz does, in fact, know […]
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Studio Visit with Kenny Scharf
Studio Visit: Painter Kenny Scharf on the Superfood That Fuels His Work, and Why He Can’t Stand Art About the Art World Kenny Scharf discusses life in the studio ahead of the opening of his new exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery in New York. Read more at Artnet News
Read MoreJohn “CRASH” Matos: CELEBRATING 45 YEARS at JoAnne Artman Gallery
“JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present, “JOHN ‘CRASH’ MATOS: CELEBRATING 45 YEARS,” an exclusive online exhibition continuing the conversation of scope, scale, and environment through the spray paint medium. Remaining true to his masterful integration of pop art, pop culture influences, and his accomplished background in street art, CRASH continues to develop on the […]
Read MoreNicole Wittenberg: Sunday Kind of Love at Nina Johnson Gallery 9/10/2020 – 10/10/2020
Nicole Wittenberg: Sunday Kind of Love at Nina Johnson Gallery 9/10/2020 – 10/10/2020 Nina Johnson is proud to present Sunday Kind of Love, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Nicole Wittenberg, on view by appointment from September 10th through October 10th, 2020. The color palette amplifies Wittenberg’s emotive marks, revealing the inherent extravagance […]
Read MoreDEBORAH KASS: Painting And Sculpture at Kavi Gupta Gallery, 09/10/2020 – 12/26/2020
DEBORAH KASS Solo Exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, IL USA “Kavi Gupta proudly presents Deborah Kass: Painting and Sculpture, the gallery’s inaugural solo exhibition with the artist. Pairing a stunning new body of work with select historical pieces, the exhibition creates an unflinching examination of the American condition before and during the Trump […]
Read MoreDon’t miss this Alex Katz exhibition in Shanghai through the summer
Don’t miss this major Alex Katz exhibition in Shanghai through the summer The New York artist’s biggest solo exhibit in China brings 30 of his works to Fosun Foundation “Alex Katz is no stranger to Shanghai. He was first introduced by London-based gallery Timothy Taylor in 2016 at the West Bund Art Fair where only […]
Read MoreDeb Kass at the Cantor Arts Center
Diverse, inclusive, modern: Say ‘YO’ to the new Cantor “Arriving just in time for the turn of the decade, Deborah Kass’ “OY/YO” is a welcome celebration of diversity, openness, communication and interconnectedness that not only represents a new era for the Cantor, but so too reflects current attitudes on campus.” Read the rest of the […]
Read MoreAlex Katz Guggenheim Museum Retrospective Announcement
Alex Katz will be the subject of a career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 2022. via ARTnews
Read MoreThe Originals: Alex Katz | W Magazine
Is there a moment or work in particular you think of as your creative breakthrough? People say it’s when I started to do figures on flat ground. Willem de Kooning liked them. Philip Guston called me up. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns called me up. I was in shock. Poets liked my work too. They […]
Read MoreDonald Sultan and Donald Baechler featured in POP Power at the Taubman Museum of Art
Pop Power from Warhol to Koons: Masterworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation September 28, 2019 – March 8, 2020 From Campbell’s Soup to Mickey Mouse, and from comic strips to balloon dogs, POP Power from Warhol to Koons celebrates the evolution of Pop art, a perennial movement that revels […]
Read MoreKenny Sharf’s Optimistically Melting! at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles
Optimistically Melting! Kenny Scharf September 7 – November 16, 2019 Honor Fraser Gallery Los Angeles, CA “Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to present Optimistically Melting!, an exhibition of new work by Kenny Scharf. Defying expectations has long been a hallmark of the work of Kenny Scharf. Taught to revere Abstract Expressionism in art school […]
Read MoreOld Art, New Art, According to Alex Katz – NAD NOW
Old Art, New Art, According to Alex Katz – NAD NOW “The water lilies are on the pond in Maine and I’ve been looking at them for 50 years but I never touched them because of Monet… But I said you’re going to do it, and I just did it,” Alex Katz (ANA 1990; NA […]
Read MoreSculpture Milwaukee: Gild the Lily (Caribbean Hybrid I, II, III) Installationtion
“For Sculpture Milwaukee, Rolón will sheath the outside of the lobby cube of the Chase Bank building with a translucent diorama of tropical flowers, making the “bird cage” lobby the largest sculpture in the region. By turning the transparent lobby into a glowing jewel box Rolón’s installation will be like a flame that attracts us […]
Read MoreDonald Sultan: Dark Objects at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, June 2019
The exhibition will include early, smaller-scale experiments in tar, tile and Masonite from the 1970s, three monumental works from Sultan’s celebrated series ‘Disaster Paintings’ as well as works in charcoal from his series ‘Black Lemons’. Donald Sultan: Dark Objects 5th Jun 2019 – 29th Jun 2019 Huxley-Parlour 3-5 Swallow Street, London, W1B 4DE https://huxleyparlour.com/exhibitions/donald-sultan-dark-objects/
Read MoreDonald Sultan: Mimosa, Paintings and Drawings at Ryan Lee
“Donald Sultan’s new series of images at Ryan Lee is the first exhibition of his Mimosas, inspired by a presentation of the blossoms he received from a friend in the South of France. He began using the structure of the ornamental plant that grows in warm temperate regions of the world to continue his five-decade […]
Read MoreKenny Scharf’s Blue Blood
Kenny Scharf blue blood May 2 – July 28, 2019 TOTAH 183 Stanton St. New York, NY 10002 “The presentation features a dynamic series of paintings made only using three colors: red, blue, and gray. Scharf’s ubiquitous motifs are observed across the works such as “futuristic planets, personified nebulae, and risible vortices transmogrify into alluring […]
Read MoreStill: Peter Halley and Ugo Rondinone
Peter Halley and Ugo Rondinone Still 4 May – 15 June 2019 50 – 58 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ (via FadMagazine) Architectural elements, including windows, doors, walls, conduits, smokestacks and cells, all play a significant part in the works of both Halley and Rondinone. ‘Still’ brings together a number of key motifs within each […]
Read MoreRoss Bleckner on His Comeback
“Ross Bleckner hasn’t had a show in New York in five years, but on April 24 he debuts a suite of more than a dozen canvases at Petzel Gallery in the show “Pharmaceutria.” It furthers Mr. Bleckner’s exploration of modes of perception.” “The large-scale compositions are mostly black-and-white, with flowers, faces and hands emerging out […]
Read MoreFixed Contained: Group exhibition featuring Carlos Rolón
KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to present FIXED CONTAINED, a group exhibition of seven international contemporary artists: Brian Alfred, Firelei Báez, Inka Essenhigh, Nir Hod, Tony Matelli, Tomokazu Matsuyama, and Carlos Rolón. This exhibition is guest curated by Matsuyama, and will be on view from April 20, 2019 through June 29, 2019. Rolón combines flat gold […]
Read MoreSotheby’s: Rediscover Alex Katz
At 91, Alex Katz is one of the most important and oldest living artists in the United States. Born in 1927 in New York to a Russian immigrant family, he has never stopped loving and living art, or paving his way through an art world in a way that kept him from seeming conventional and […]
Read MoreHong Kong Hosts First Major Exhibition by Painter Alex Katz
Hong Kong Hosts First Major Exhibition by Painter Alex Katz “Katz’s seminal minimal figurative aesthetic not only anticipated the Pop Art explosion in New York in the 1960s but also influenced generations of artists around the world,” said Yuki Terase, Head of Contemporary Art, Asia, in a press release. Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery 5/F One Pacific […]
Read MoreAlex Katz interview with Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins
“Only a painter could look at a large-scale architectural project as if it were a canvas. It’s one explanation, at least, as to why Alex Katz isn’t sweating the permanent installation of 17 large-scale paintings across the 400-foot train platform at the 57th Street subway station.” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/alex-katz-looks-at-art-at-92nd-street-y
Read MoreEric Fischl: Octavio Art Gallery
Octavia Art Gallery New Orleans December 1, 2018 – January 26, 2019 https://www.octaviaartgallery.com/exhibitions/eric-fischl Eric Fischl perfectly captures ‘unsettling human quirks’ “…but the mostly collage-like works here and in other recent shows reflect a tersely fluid, near finger-painterly quality of gesture appropriate to figures who […] inhabit a familiar world that seems to be shifting under […]
Read MoreJoe Andoe: Timeless Calamity
Andoe’s paintings have always been minimal. He distills the essence of figures and objects from memory onto dreamlike fields of monochrome. Many of his landscapes are angled as if the viewer is glancing out the window of a moving car. Done in color or black and white, they resemble the outskirts of Tulsa as seen […]
Read MoreARoS Aarhus Art Museum: 40 gigantic works by Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel: Aktion Paintings 1985-2017 12 October – 3 March 2019 ARoS is presenting the largest Julian Schnabel-exhibition to date in the Scandinavian countries. Many of the artworks are from Schnabel’s own collection and have never been exhibited publicly. Julian Schnabel is seen as one of the leading protagonists of painting in the last half […]
Read MoreALEX KATZ’S: LIFE IN ART
ALEX KATZ’S LIFE IN ART His paintings make us see the world the way he sees it, clear and up close, with all but the most essential details pared away. By Calvin Tomkins “At Cooper, I went from someone who was basically incompetent to being the best painter in the school,” -Alex Katz It took […]
Read MoreKENNY SCHARF: INNER AND OUTER SPACE
KENNY SCHARF: INNER AND OUTER SPACE Leila Heller Gallery: Dubai March 19 – August 31, 2018 “Leila Heller Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the UAE by Kenny Scharf. His new body of work is a reaction to what he perceives as our ‘increasingly out-of-control situation’, depicted by the melting faces […]
Read MoreThe Neuberger Museum of Art Presents Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s – July 1st through October 14th, 2018. The largest museum exhibition to showcase the artist’s work from his pioneering period in the 1950s — will be on view for the first time in the New York metro area at the Neuberger Museum of Art on the campus […]
Read MoreMeet Carlos Rolón, the OG visionary changing the art game with urban artifacts
Date Published: June 1, 2018
Read MoreAlex Katz “Cut Outs” Exhibition
Date Published Mar. 7, 2018 Click image to view article
Read MoreAlex Katz Sticks to His Artistic Convictions
Date Published: Feb. 8, 2018 Click image to view article
Read MoreGolden Eyes: Alex Katz at Ninety
Date Published: Dec. 13, 2017
Read MoreSnapchat Debuts Six New Augmented Reality Artworks at Art Basel Miami
Date Published: Dec. 6, 2017
Read MoreSeen on the street in Williamsburg, plus a shoreline sight or two
Date Published: Nov. 15, 2017
Read MoreEric Fischl: “I don’t think of my work as erotic, I think of it as sexual.”
Date Published: Nov. 14, 2017
Read MoreWe’re All Jealous of Alex Katz’s Undeniably Chic Subjects
Date Published: Nov. 10, 2017
Read MoreDocumentary ‘Everybody Knows … Elizabeth Murray’ brings the artist’s work boldly to life
Date Published: Nov. 2, 2017
Read MoreAt 90, Still Raising the Bar for Himself — and the Other Guys
Date Published: Oct. 31, 2017
Read MoreTHE JUBILANCE OF JULIAN — THE FENG SHUI OF SCHNABEL
Date Published: Oct. 25, 2017
Read MoreAlex Katz exhibition shares upbeat artist’s mood of ‘Endless Summer’
Date Published: Oct. 15, 2017
Read MoreLayers: Donald Baechler at Cheim & Read, New York
Date Published: Oct. 10, 2017
Read MoreAlex Katz, On the Cover: New York Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Issue
Date Published: Oct. 15, 2017
Read MoreJames hd Brown: Life and Work in Mexico
Sep. 19 thru Dec. 2, 2017
Read MoreDesert scenes awash with colour in painter Enoc Perez’s first Dubai show
Date Published: Oct. 9, 2017
Read More‘We’re Stripping Away All the Noise’: The Great Julian Schnabel Reboot Continues at Frieze Masters
Date Published: Oct. 6, 2017
Read MoreAlex Katz at Timothy Taylor Gallery
Oct. 3 thru Nov. 18, 2017
Read MoreThe Desert Bloom by Enoc Perez
Sep. 21 thru Nov. 4, 2017
Read MoreDisaster was his message, but then catastrophes became commonplace
Date Published: Jul. 13, 2017
Read MoreVisionary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz
Jun. 1 thru Aug. 27, 2017
Read MoreNationally touring exhibition is the first to focus on Donald Sultan’s The Disaster Paintings
May 26 thru Sep. 4, 2017
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