Alex Katz, Contemporary Prints at Kass/Meridian

Alex Katz (American, 1927)
Being a maverick from the beginning, Katz came of age when Abstract Expressionism still reigned, yet he turned to painting flat one dimensional representational landscapes and human figures. His flat, bright figures have an everyday quality that links them to commercial art and popular culture and his portraits betray an obsession with style and surface. Taking cues from billboards his highly stylized artworks anticipated Pop Art. Although his works seem simple Katz claims they are reductive.

In 1974 The Whitney Museum of American Art showed Alex Katz Prints, followed by a traveling retrospective exhibition Alex Katz in 1986.

His works are in the collections of Tate Modern, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alex Katz is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.