Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey

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An abstract ink wash painting in reddish-orange on white paper, featuring thick, vertical strokes and gestural blotches that suggest a dense thicket of trees.

Preparatory drawing featuring delicate arrangement of dogwood flowers sprawling across the page. Thin, rapid, and expressive ink lines define the four-petaled blooms and pointed leaves.

Alex Katz | Out of Sight is curated by Kiko Aebi, Katz Curator at the Colby Museum. A richly illustrated catalogue will be published on the occasion of the show. In addition to newly commissioned texts by Aebi, Isabelle Derveaux, and Ingrid D. Rowland, the publication will feature an interview between the artist, Aebi, and Laura Neufeld, poems by John Godfrey, and a contribution by Rackstraw Downes.

Alex Katz | Out of Sight is generously supported by Sherri and Dean Athanasia, GRAY Chicago | New York, and Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright. Additional support is provided by the museum's 25th Anniversary Fund, Everett and Florence Turner Fund, and Mirken Family Publications Fund.

Travel Details

Hudson River Museum
Yonkers, New York
February 19–July 18, 2027

About Alex Katz

Widely recognized as one of the leading artists of his generation, Alex Katz has developed a distinctive and remarkably influential approach to contemporary representational art, creating a celebrated body of work spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Brooklyn in 1927 and raised in St. Albans, Queens, Katz studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (1946–49). A scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture brought him to Maine for the first time in 1949, initiating a lifelong connection to the state and its distinctive environment. Alongside his landscape practice, Katz has consistently turned to the people and places of New York City as vital sources of inspiration.

Katz has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions, and his work is held in more than two hundred institutional collections around the world. The Colby Museum is home to the largest number of his works in any institution, with nearly nine hundred paintings, drawings, and prints, primarily gifted by the artist. A rotating selection is continuously on view in the Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz at the Colby Museum. Opened in 1995, the wing is one of the only museum spaces in the country devoted solely to the work of a single living artist. In 2004, Katz established the Alex Katz Foundation, which has placed hundreds of artworks—many by contemporary artists—into museum collections across the United States and Europe.