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Allison Katz Cocteau , 2021 Oil, acrylic, rice, and sand on linen, 70⅞ × 47¼ in. Courtesy the artist and dépendance, Brussels Collection Y.D.C.
Katz has been making paintings of cockerels—“cock paintings”—since 2011. In Cocteau , a cockerel, painted after one found on a Pompeian wall fres- co, pecks at the ground. Its tail feathers follow the line of a self-portrait of French artist, poet, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, taken from a mural in the Church of Notre Dame de France in London. Cocteau the muralist offers both punning potential and a connection to the theatricality of Roman wall painting. His outline is defined by grains of rice affixed to the canvas, rein - forcing its materiality in the face of painterly illusion. —HJ
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