The perennial and unstoppable artist Alex Katz brings his most reductive, most sublime, most aggressive work yet. 10 epically scaled paintings that demonstrate the artist’s superhuman longevity and ambition. The first work seen in this group was included in The Bitch, a two-artist pairing at O’Flaherty’s last year in December. Katz and Matthew Barney made an unprecedented and perfectly enmeshed coupling, with Barney’s dramatic and forensic study of Katz at 97 traversing this enormous orange landscape. All made in 2024 and drawing inspiration and a starting point from Matisse’s The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), all the paintings, painted in a single bright orange, exist as stand ins for that famous after image on the back of the closed eye. They are simple in the extreme, they beg the question: what are these? Drawings? Prints? Huge studies? For Katz the questions are unimportant as he once again dances the tightrope—these Paintings are uncompromising and completely themselves.
