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White Hat and Sunglasses, 2008 $3,000. |
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Coleman Pond II, 2007
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Coleman Pond III, 2007 $700. |
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Kate, 2006 $4,000. (Call for availability) |
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Mae, 2005 $4,000. |
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Maine Landscape, 1951-2005 No Longer Available |
Alex Katz
Legendary American-born painter Alex Katz is known for painting portraits and landscapes that possess a quality Robert Storr of the Museum of Modern Art defines as the unquantifiable “cool.”
Portraits and landscapes are great subjects of Alex Katz’s paintings and prints. Coleman Pond II and Coleman Pond III are characteristic of his minimalist treatment of the landscape: on a dark blue field or shifting downward from light to dark, a few spare lines define sky from earth and sketch out details of vegetation. The heliorelief (photographic woodcut) was created and printed in the mokuhanga style traditionally used for the famed Japanese ukiyo-e prints of the 17th through 19th centuries. The woodblock is shin-a or basswood veneer, and the ink is nikawa, hand-milled from pigment, fish-glue and water; the Japanese kozo paper is hand-printed with a hon baren.
In Kate, Alex Katz explores the cyanotype technique, a printmaking process first invented in 1841 and commonly used for architectural blueprint drawings. Outlined in vivid blue, the portrait is a bleed, where the print image is extended to the edges of the paper. Kate is a portrait of the American born actress Kate Valk, known for her title role Brutus Jones in the Wooster Group's acclaimed production "The Emperor Jones" by Eugene O'Neill. Alex Katz designed the show's poster featuring Kate Valk, which served as inspiration for the cyanotype print created at Graphicstudio.
Characteristic of Katz’s signature style, Maine Landscape is deceptively simple; its small size and forthright elements immediately poignant and elegant.
After one of the artist’s first prints made by the artist in 1951, Maine Landscape embodies the original version in heliorelief, a woodcut process developed at Graphicstudio in which an image on a translucent material is used to expose a light-sensitized woodblock, which is then cut with sandblasting.
Katz first exhibited in New York City in 1954; recent exhibitions include the USF Contemporary Art Museum, the Albertina Museum Vienna, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
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Alex Katz Catalog
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