Alex Katz @ Gavin Brown's enterprise

July 26, 2019 

2-TIMES • Art
Alex Katz @
Gavin Brown's
enterprise
— 

‘The sun breaks
orange against
spruce; day falls
out of a thicket
of trees; and
a nocturnal
sky emerges
from nothing
but irrepressible
moves of black
and gray, wet into
wet, as painters
say...’ 

Born: 
1927 – Brooklyn,
New York, USA. 

The exhibition: 
Is American-born
Alex Katz's sixth
solo with Gavin
Brown's enterprise,
telling the story of
a year in the artist's
painted-life — In
these new works,
Katz’s hand is
bluntly material & 
inextricably sublime. 

“There are really 
two kinds of life in
these paintings: the
one the paintings 
embody, the one 
we believe we are 
observing, and then 
there is the other. 
It is this other which 
causes the trouble, 
this other we long 
to see.” 

2-TIMES' highlights: 
· Twilight, 2018 
· Dancer 4 (Outline), 2019 

On view at: 
Gavin Brown's enterprise 
—
439 W 127th St,
New York, NY 10027,
United States. 

Closes: 
August 3, 2019.