Alex Katz: Various Trees

Timothy Taylor presents Various Trees, an exhibition of new paintings and studies by Alex Katz, bringing together a focused group of intimate works made from 2023 and 2025. The exhibition offers insight into the artist’s ongoing working process, foregrounding his sustained engagement with form, colour, and perception. Seventeen works capture with vivid clarity what Katz has described as “quick things passing,” affirming the continued immediacy and vitality of his practice.

Beginning in 2021, Katz increasingly turned his attention to painting his experiences of the natural world, capturing the ephemeral qualities of light on trees and the fleeting impression of drifting clouds over blossoms. At ninety-eight, the artist continues to pursue his desire to portray the phenomenological experience of such natural encounters—the sensations they evoke, rather than to gesture toward “realism.” Here, fourteen small-scale oil paintings on board are presented alongside three larger works on linen; all but one feature a cropped image of a tree—we see meandering limbs, stately trunks, and fragile twigs, all differently dappled with light and foliage. These scenes are fragments of landscapes the artist observed in New York City, near the studio where he has worked since 1968, and in Lincolnville, Maine, where he has summered since 1954. One painting from 2024, Study for Yellow Flowers (3), depicts yellow blooms suspended against a field of muted blue, as though flung skyward and pictured from below.

Free

Tuesday to Friday 10am – 6pm
Saturday 11am – 5pm