{"id":12761,"date":"2025-11-19T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:03:00","slug":"alex-katz-at-gladstone-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/alex-katz-at-gladstone-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Katz at Gladstone Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early in his ninth decade, iconic painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexkatz.com\">Alex Katz<\/a> commented that he was streamlining his schedule to channel his efforts into painting.\u00a0 The energy expressed by the huge, vividly colored paintings in his solo show at <a href=\"https:\/\/gladstonegallery.com\/en\/exhibit\/alex-katz-gg25\/\">Gladstone Gallery<\/a> suggests that the strategy continues to be effective at age 98.\u00a0 Ten-foot-tall paintings feature patterns of dappled light expressed in orange paint on white canvas &#8211; a recreation of the optical effects of moving from bright sun outdoors into a darkened interior.\u00a0 Accompanied by a video by Matthew Barney of Katz alone in his studio climbing a ladder, painting or standing in contemplation, the show demonstrates Katz\u2019s vigor and his appreciation of the possibility of intense visual experience in the natural world.\u00a0 (On view through Dec 20<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/e535f057-c3a2-6026-af85-16efc4821d55.jpg\" alt=\"A doorway through which you can see 3 abstract orange and white paintings.  Above the doorway is a screen with a man on a ladder painting the orange paintings.\" width=\"3800\" height=\"5205\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Katz, installation view at Gladstone Gallery, November 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in his ninth decade, iconic painter Alex Katz commented that he was streamlining his schedule to channel his efforts into painting.\u00a0 The energy expressed by the huge, vividly colored paintings in his solo show at Gladstone Gallery suggests that the strategy continues to be effective at age 98.\u00a0 Ten-foot-tall paintings feature patterns of dappled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/alex-katz-at-gladstone-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alex Katz at Gladstone Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[6278,117,722,1338,5382,856,33],"class_list":["post-12761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-alex-katz","tag-chelsea","tag-gladstone-gallery","tag-landscape","tag-orange","tag-painter","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3jP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}