Saturday, January 20, 2018

Two Paintings



A recent notice for Oakville Galleries' upcoming Allison Katz exhibition carried with it a familiar image. Not that I had seen Katz's Giant (2013-2016) before, but I had seen something like it. Then it dawned on me -- Is this an homage to John Gast's Manifest Destiny (1872)? A response to it?

Unfortunately there was not enough information on Katz's painting, as both Oakville (who provide a cropped view of it) and Canadian Art spoke less of the painting than of its installation, which, given the subject of Gast's canvas (the unidirectional passage of "Progress" westward), has Katz's presented amongst others "in the round."



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