TIMOTHY TAYLOR
invites the Peggy Society to a private tour of
Alex Katz: Subway Drawings
Please join the Peggy Society for a private tour of Timothy Taylor's new exhibition, Alex Katz: Subway Drawings.
Hosted by PGC alumna Sonya Tamaddon (2015).
Timothy Taylor
515 W 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
Alex Katz: Subway Drawings is a historic solo exhibition by Alex Katz, of the artist’s notebook drawings from the 1940s, presented in collaboration with Gavin Brown’s enterprise. This is the first time these works have been brought together in an exhibition.
Coming of age as an artist in the 1940s in New York, Katz developed his unique approach to contemporary representational painting in reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, prior to the emergence of Pop Art. Subway Drawings exemplifies the artist’s life-long pursuit to capture the present tense, through a highly accomplished but sparse line that has endured throughout his prolific career. Drawing serves as a crucial facet of the artist’s practice – a tool of immediacy that articulates Katz’s most essential images, across all the processes in which he engages.