Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce an historic solo exhibition by Alex Katz, of the artist's notebook drawings from the 1940s, presented in collaboration with Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York/Rome. This will be the first time these drawings are 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.

Alex Katz Subway Drawings

DACS, London / VAGA, New York Courtesy Timothy Taylor 16×34

27 Apr–30 Jun 2017

Avove : Alex Katz, Crowd on Subway, c. 1940s, Pen, 12.38 x 20 cm

https://www.timothytaylor.com/exhibitions/alex-katz-subway-drawings/