Timothy Taylor presents Alex Katz: Spring, an exhibition featuring vibrant new paintings dedicated to the landscape. The presentation will include six large-scale paintings and three studies belonging to the same series featured in Alex Katz: Seasons which only recently closed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Completed in 2023, these evocative compositions of flowers and trees are based on landscapes the artist observed in New York City and Lincolnville, Maine, where he has summered since 1954.
For the past three years, Katz has largely shifted his focus to depictions of blossoms and foliage, highlighting the way light shapes our experience of the natural world. The lush, sun-dappled trees found near his downtown New York studio, where he has worked since 1968, and the crisp, bright climates of coastal Maine lend themselves to his minimalist style of abstraction that distils forms to their essential elements. As he has explained, he seeks to capture “the sensation of seeing,” and his vigorous, airy approach to mark-making brilliantly reflects the ephemerality of his subjects. Katz works from life, photographs, and memory, creating small sketches before moving on to larger scales. He intuitively builds up his compositions with marks of wet-on-wet brushwork until he generates what he describes as a “surface energy” that translates the exact feeling he had when first viewing his subject.
| Duration | 12 September 2024 - 26 October 2024 |
| Times | Tuesday to Friday 10am – 6pm Saturday 11am – 5pm |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | Timothy Taylor |
| Address | 15 Bolton Street, London, W1J 8BG |
| Contact | 442074093344 / mail@timothytaylor.com / www.timothytaylor.com/ |