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Allison Katz Someone else’s dream , 2021 Oil, acrylic, and sand on linen, 59 × 55 in. Collection of the artist
This painting is inspired by a scene in the biblical apocalypse, the book of Daniel, in which Daniel interprets the King of Babylon’s dream, foretelling a period of madness that will force him to graze like an ox for seven years. The figure, crouched down on all fours, is quoted from Edgar Degas’s 1860 painting Young Spartans Exercising , and suggests an animality or childish regression that Katz recognizes in herself, using it as an avatar for the artist’s search for innocence. —HJ
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