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Gestures
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Alex Katz and Julian Opie
Distillations of Contemporary Life 28 Feb - 15 May 2022 This Online Viewing Room presents the first juxtaposition between the works of Alex Katz (b. 1927) and Julian Opie (b. 1958). While from different artistic generations, both utilize individual reductive artistic languages reflective of our contemporary world in their figurative works; as a result, viewing their portraits, landscapes, and works depicting nature in juxtaposition is a most enriching experience. Both artists look at their surroundings and translate them in ways meant to be both pleasing to behold and subjectively relatable to all through their distilled style and everyday subject matter. As Opie says, “Art is a shared language and an amazing rich resource that allows us to understand the world and ourselves, in fact allows us to see and navigate the world.” Read more
