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Allison Katz Eternity , 2023
Oil on canvas, 86⅝ × 78¾ in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth The George Economou Collection
In this painting, two men installing a skylight look down into a room below, their forms starkly outlined against a bright, cloudless sky. Katz appropriated the image from one of her father’s Fine Homebuilding magazines from the 1980s, seeing in it an articulation of her own painterly preoccupations with framing, orientation, and the gaze. This skylight mirrors the pictorial limits of the painting itself, which function both as a boundary and a portal to what lies beyond: a frame that offers a fixed view of infinite change. —HJ
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