April 5 – 21, 1978
Richard E. Fuller Gallery, Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library
Glenside, Pa. – Alex Katz, well-known artist, will exhibit 35 cut-outs of heads on thin aluminum, entitled Rush (1970) at Beaver College, Easton and Church Rds., Glenside, from April 5 through April 21 in the Richard E. Fuller Art Gallery. A gallery talk by Mr. Katz will be held at 4:30 PM and an opening reception in his honor will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 PM in the Fuller Gallery on April 5. The public is cordially invited to attend these events.
The 16-inch-high heads make an environmental experience of the room since the physical reality of the cut-out pieces seem to dissolve into the walls in such a way as to give the observer the experience of a new reality of the heads. As Alex Katz has said, “You look at the people for a while and after a time the people look at you. It’s sort of a weird experience.”
In exhibiting the pieces the idea of a casual environment quality is emphasized by the arrangement of the heads being variable. Which pieces goes next to which is at the discretion of those hanging the show so that each time they are exhibited there is a new grouping, which helps reinforce the concept of a room full of people.
Alex Katz has been identified with a number of artists who became known for their work with recognizable subject matter in the late 60s. Sometimes these artists are grouped under the term “The New Reality.” He was included in a show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts called “Contemporary Realism” in 1971 and has had over 60 one-artist shows in New York, Los Angeles, California, Helsinki, Paris, Zurich and many other places. His work is currently represented by [Marlborough] Galleries, Inc., 40 West 57th St., New York, N.Y., through whose courtesy this exhibition is shown.
The exhibition [is] supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and by Beaver Association of Fine Arts, the Forum Committee, and the Department of Fine Arts.
