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Art

Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal

When

Opens Thursday June 19, 2008 (5–8pm)

June 20, 2008 – Aug 1, 2008

Mondays–Thursdays (10am–5:30pm)

Fridays (10am–4:30pm)

Where

Richard Gray Gallery

875 N Michigan Ave

Suite 2503

312.642.8877

Price

Free

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Richard Gray Gallery says…

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.