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… aimed to synthesize an intellectual approach to painting with his own emotional experience. This exhibition, featuring a 1950 pictograph by the artist given to the Colby Museum by the Alex Katz Foundation, brings together 50 early prints and paintings, which demonstrate Gottlieb’s significant contribution to the changing face of American art at mid-century.

A visual artist and writer closely associated with the New York School of the 1960s and ’70s, Joe Brainard invented variations on commercial images and artifacts that have become icons of Pop art. This exhibition presents 20 mixed-media works from Brainard’s provocative If Nancy Was series, a recent gift of the Alex Katz …

A recent purchase and partial gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, Hannah Collins’ Beshencevo: A Current History is a highly evocative retelling of one day in the life of a family in a remote village in central Russia. Through a series of interwoven visual fragments including stark landscapes and contemplative domestic scenes, striking contrasts emerge …

… Samten will create a sand mandala, which will be ritualistically dismantled at a closing ceremony.  Related events:
Lecture: Wednesday, April 7, 6 p.m., Given Auditorium
Meditation: Saturday, April 10, 12 p.m., Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz
Dismantling Ceremony: Tuesday, April 13, 3:30 p.m., Lower Jetté Gallery

On view this summer is a dynamic group of new acquisitions in a wide range of media, including paintings by Bob Thompson, David Salle, Helmut Federle, and Nicole Wittenberg, all gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation; print purchases by Julie Mehretu, Vija Celmins, and Lee Bontecou made possible by Lindsay Leard Coolidge ’78; sculptures by …