Alex Katz "Paintings from the 50's - 80's"
Adam Baumgold Gallery (60 E 66th St.)
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Included in the exhibition of twenty paintings are major works that were exhibited in Alex Katz's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1986, as well as in the exhibition "Alex Katz: Small Paintings" at the Addison Gallery of American Art, The Whitney Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001-2002, and the exhibition "Alex Katz Paints Ada" at the Jewish Museum in New York in 2006.
Featured in the exhibition is the iconic painting "Swimmer # 3," 1973, one of the artist's most recognizable images. Dramatically cropped and enlarged, the swimmer's massive head emerges from primary blue water. Simplifying his face, mouth and a splash of water into blocks of solid color, Katz evokes the poetry of a Japanese woodcut. Another major painting, "Bather," 1959, features Katz's enigmatic, constant muse, his wife Ada, who stands front and center in a continuous field of water and sky. This succinct painting is clearly an ode to the sparse, mesmerizing collages of the artist's early work.
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from December 10, 2009 to January 30, 2010