Name: Alex Katz - Portraits and Landscapes: Through the Seasons
Start: 2025-03-19T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens

Curated by Sponder Gallery, ALEX KATZ: Portraits and Landscapes – Through the Seasons will celebrate Alex Katz as a pioneering figure in contemporary art. This thoughtfully curated collection of silkscreens, pigment prints, and linocuts highlights Katz’s masterful ability to distill form and color into a dialogue of flatness, simplicity, and precision, bridging the boundaries between narrative clarity and modernist abstraction.
Katz’s work emerged as a counterpoint to the gestural intensity of Abstract Expressionism, embracing a minimalist visual language that combines intimacy and modernity. Through works like Large Black Hat (Ada) and Ariel (B&W), Katz refines his subjects into their most essential visual components, balancing bold, unmodulated color planes with subtle compositional rigor. His recurring muse and wife, Ada Katz, anchors many portraits, transforming personal themes of identity and presence into universal meditations on human expression.
The exhibition will highlight Katz’s engagement with seasonal transitions and natural forms, as seen in the Autumn and Spring series. These works abstract leaves and branches into rhythmic patterns, inviting viewers to experience the passage of time as both a visual and emotional journey. Similarly, his floral pieces, such as Purple Irises on Red and Yellow Flags on White, juxtapose the fleeting beauty of nature with the permanence of printmaking, bridging analog techniques and digital precision.
Through Katz’s reductive approach and deliberate compositional choices, the everyday is transformed into the monumental, revealing a profound interplay of form, color, and identity. ALEX KATZ: Portraits and Landscapes – Through the Seasons reaffirms Katz’s enduring legacy as one of contemporary art’s most incisive and influential voices, inviting audiences to reflect on the profound simplicity and poetic resonance of his work.