Alex Katz: What about Style?
presented by Nassau County Museum of Art
June 29 through October 13, 2013 Daily showings at 11AM,12PM, 1PM & 3PM
Free with admission
Alex Katz, 2004. Photograph by Vivien Bittencourt.
(b.1927) is one of the most important American artists alive today. For more than 50 years, painter Alex Katz has resisted trends in modern art to pioneer and refine his own style of flat, elegant, and realistic figure painting. What About Style? offers an uncluttered view of this American maverick. Filmmaker and art critic Heinz Peter Schwerfel captures the elusive Katz working in his Maine studio and his Soho flat, laboring over a 32-foot painting called The Black Brook. Interviews, archival footage, images of his subjects, and a virtual tour of 20 Katz paintings are combined to convey his unique style of art. Free with museum admission, No reservations. First come, first seated.
Nassau County Museum of Art is offering several programs in conjunction with this solo exhibition:
Also free with admission are the daily 2 p.m. exhibition tours as well as lunchtime lectures on Katz’s work offered on July 25, August 22 and September 26.
On October 12, the influential art critic Bill Berkson offers insights on Katz’s painting. For details on these and other events, visit .
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to12). Members are admitted free.