Alex Katz is renowned for his large-scale paintings and prints of landscapes, flowers, and portraits of people, most notably his wife Ada. Bold color, flat surfaces, and dramatic cropping are hallmarks of his practice. As a printmaker, he investigates three-dimensional space through sculptural cutouts—a technique he established in 1959. His work in the 1980s and 1990s centered around large “environmental” landscape paintings with loosened edges and painterly details intended to place the viewer within the scene. “I always try to paint in the present tense. If you paint stories, you’re painting in the past tense.”
A native of New York, Katz studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Since 2022, he has focused on chronicling seasonal changes and landscapes observed from his studios Maine and New York, while exhibiting his work around the world.
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