Peter Blum Gallery: “Alex Katz: Three Paintings” November 16, 2017 through January 13, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 16, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Peter Blum Gallery will present “Alex Katz: Three Paintings,” featuring three significant paintings by the artist.
Featuring three large-scale paintings from 1972, 1990 and 1993, the exhibition will highlight Alex Katz’s cool, representational and reductive style. Blue Umbrella #2, one of Katz’s most important paintings, depicts his wife Ada, clad in a black coat and colorful scarf, standing under a blue umbrella in the rain. Katz’s Black Brook 11, an oil on linen painting from 1990, is a rendering of a dark monochromatic space with white brushstrokes on the bottom half to depict a running stream. The third painting, Gold and Black II from 1993, features a grouping of trees against a monochromatic field of saturated golden color.