Please join us for a walkthrough with artist Allison Katz and Cecilia Alemani Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art.
On the occasion of ‘Allison Katz. Outta the Bag,’ the Montreal-born, London-based artist’s first major solo exhibition in New York, please join us for a walkthrough with artist Allison Katz and Cecilia Alemani Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art.
‘Allison Katz. Outta the Bag,’ extends Katz’s inquiry into the capaciousness of painting—what it can record, absorb and transmit. Wryness and personal memory intersect with art-historical citations, modes of self-portraiture and allusions to the precarity of an image saturated world. Language, too, operates as a structuring device. Through wordplay, expressions and elliptical titles––beginning with the exhibition’s, which reminds us that showing one’s work is a bit like revealing a secret––Katz creates verbal frames elastic enough to hold both the playful and the erudite, allowing meaning to slip, collide and subtly steer the viewer’s path through the work.
