Alex Katz, Subway Drawings
Publication
Timothy Taylor, New York, 2017
Spiral bound, 108 pp., 214 × 133 mm

Coming of age as an artist in the 1940s in New York, Alex Katz developed his unique approach to contemporary representational painting in reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, prior to the emergence of Pop Art. Subway Drawings exemplifies the artist's life-long pursuit to capture the present tense, through a highly accomplished but sparse line that has endured throughout his prolific career. Drawing serves as a crucial facet of the artist's practice – a tool of immediacy that articulates Katz's most essential images, across all the processes in which he engages.