Richard Gray Gallery
875 N Michigan Ave
Suite 2503
312.642.8877
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Alex Katz, Peter
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Opens Thursday June 19, 2008 (5–8pm)
June 20, 2008 – Aug 1, 2008
Mondays–Thursdays (10am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10am–4:30pm)
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At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why the artist's profile has risen with a new collection of his wry back-of-head portraits. His flat, colorful style sometimes recalls David Hockney's cool Bigger Splash-era oils and the austerity of an Edward Hopper landscape, but the blend of illustration, figurative painting, and classic framing is singular to Katz's work. And Subject to Reversal — which subverts portraiture's reputation as a form that illuminates an "inner essence" — goes much further conceptually than the later work of many of his Pop Art colleagues.
