Asa Shatkin 2021-06-01T14:22:26-04:00 September 3rd, 2019|
At 92, Katz is still climbing up onto scaffolds to paint enormous landscapes and, of course, portraits of Ada, his muse and wife of sixty-one years. Alex Katz met Ada at a the opening of his two-person show at the Tanager Gallery in New York in October 1957. They were married four months later. One of the first paintings that he created of her was Ada in Black Sweater, in 1957.
Asa Shatkin 2021-06-01T13:28:36-04:00 November 13th, 2018|
Alex Katz works out every morning before he paints. This has been his routine, seven days a week, for decades, and his body of work is prolific. Not only has Katz not slowed down at age 91, he somehow managed to write a book...in his spare time.
Asa Shatkin 2021-06-01T15:16:42-04:00 October 24th, 2018|
Alex Katz works out first thing every morning before he begins to paint. “I used to do two hundred sit-ups, three hundred pushups, and a hundred chins,” he said in a recent interview in The New Yorker.“I can’t do as many now.” Katz turned ninety-one in July. Lotte Museum of ART : Alex Katz Photo: Aaron Yoo [...]
Asa Shatkin 2018-04-02T11:00:29-04:00 March 29th, 2018|
At age 90, Alex Katz still jogs, works out, and draws or paints every day, even when he has to climb a ladder to reach the top of one of his massive canvasses. Katz still works in the SoHo studio where he lives with Ada, wife and muse of sixty years.
Asa Shatkin 2021-05-28T08:40:03-04:00 June 12th, 2016|
Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927, raised in Queens, and has lived in his SoHo loft since 1968. His parents, who emigrated from Russia, encouraged Katz’s interest in the arts. He attended Woodrow Wilson High School, whose curriculum allowed him to study academic subjects in the morning and arts in the afternoon.
