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Allison Katz Crosstalk , 2024 Oil and acrylic on linen, 62½ × 56⅝ in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
One of Katz’s recurring motifs is the open mouth—borrowed from a 1943 woodcut by André Derain—in which the viewer looks outward from behind the teeth. Here, it frames a composition generated by chance when proofs of two existing works were accidentally overlaid as part of a catalogue printing process in 2021. This conflation of images—indebted to the machine’s eye rather than the painter’s hand—creates a new frequency of exchange and static. The mouth appears to blurt out the road like speech and the rooster and chicken are uncannily placed as eyes upon the face. —HJ
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