Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Alex Katz, a selection of prints by internationally acclaimed artist Alex Katz. The exhibition spans six decades of Katz’s career and includes exquisitely composed aquatints from his portfolio Small Cuts, a vintage lithograph Dog at Ducktrap, as well as a selection of recent prints. Katz captures his subjects with elegance and subtlety creating a theme that he himself describes as “totally American.” His compositions of color fields create luminous environments that embody leisure and reminisce on a scape of endless summertime.
 
Appearing on the American artistic scene at the end of the 1950’s, Katz’s representational figures and environments became influential to Pop Art and subsequent art movements. Katz’s work has been in nearly 200 solo exhibitions internationally since 1954. Alex Katz’s work can be found in numerous public collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others.

In the project room the gallery is showing a selection of photographs from the series Elderly
Animals by Philadelphia based artist Isa Leshko. These intimate portraits are a thoughtful
testament to survival and endurance, and take an unflinching look at mortality. Elderly Animals was
inspired by the artists own feelings about aging, mortality, and loss, which she was faced with after
caring for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. What started as an exorcism of
grief soon transitioned into a series of dignified portraits which evoke a wide range of emotion.
Since its inception, Elderly Animals has captured the hearts of the press and has been featured in The
New York Times, Harpers, and NPR (to name a few).
Isa Leshko has received the Houston Center for Photography Fellowship and the Silver Eye Center
Photography Keystone award for her Elderly Animals project. Her prints are in numerous private and
public collections including the Boston Public Library, the Harry Ransom Center, Haverford College,
and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.