Orange Interior

Orange Interior
Alex Katz

Artist Biography
Acquisition Number: 84.52
Medium: Serigraph on paper
Size: 16 3/8" x 21 1/2"
Date: 1968
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. O'Sickey

With flat planes of rich, bold color, Katz's work evokes the smooth aesthetics of advertising billboards and film. He describes his prints as "a final distillation of an image," or breaking down an image into its most important, basic components. His works emphasize the flatness of the plane while remaining realistic, resulting in highly stylized images that are simultaneously specific and generic.