Alex Katz: The White Coat

Published for the artist’s 2021 show at Gray Chicago, this title debuts the latest series from Alex Katz, titled Vivien in White Coat: 11 large-scale portraits depicting Vivien Bittencourt, the painter’s daughter-in-law, wearing a radiant white coat. Using a palette dominated by white, black and pale blue, Katz radically crops and magnifies the figure from an array of dynamic perspectives within the picture plane. The volume features an essay by renowned curator and writer Jan Verwoert.Balancing the specific and the abstract, the intimate and the remote, the geometric and the gestural, Katz positions the figure in space with deftness, brevity and sartorial elegance. Notwithstanding Katz’s seriality, the white coat appears mysterious and enigmatic within each composition.
ISBN 9780996454094. Gray Chicago/New York. hb. 80 pages. 42 colour ills. 18 x 22 cm.
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