Here's how Canadian painter, AllisonKatz, is quietly making her mark on the international art world.
Allison Katz has always been drawn to the performative. Growing up, she wanted to be an actor, but because of a series of operations on her right arm that began when she was 11 and lasted into her late teens, she spent a lot of time convalescing on her own and was forced to channel her creative energy into a more protracted form of engagement: drawing and, eventually, painting. “I had to retreat into my inner life, which actually suited me quite well,” says Katz.
, was acquired by London’s Tate Modern gallery; and it was announced that Hauser & Wirth—arguably the world’s top gallery, with locations in the U.S., the U.K., Switzerland, Spain, Monaco and Hong Kong—is now representing her. This new partnership joins her pre-existing relationships with galleries in Shanghai , Milan and Brussels .
But Katz’s career didn’t blow up overnight. She has been hard at work for the past two decades, quietly making her mark as part of a new generation of painters who are elevating the art form in interesting ways—and turning heads along the way.In the late 1990s, when Katz was a teenager growing up in Montreal, she took a month-long summer painting class in New York City and stayed in a dorm for the duration. “It was so overwhelming,” says Katz of the coming-of-age trip.
Katz’s painting style makes the viewer think—things are not quite what they seem. Her diverse imagery includes cocks and cabbages, open toothy mouths, fairies, elevators, noses and waterways, and she creates layers and depth in her pieces, both literally and metaphorically. “Painting can be a heavy medium—mentally, traditionally and culturally speaking,” she says.
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