Allison Katz. Westward Ho!

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Join us for a talk between the artist and art historian Suzanne Hudson at 5 pm on Friday 3 November preceding the opening reception from 6 – 8 pm. Click here to register for the talk.

On 4 November, Hauser & Wirth will open ‘Westward Ho!,’ its first solo exhibition with Allison Katz, whose critically admired work addresses the ways in which aesthetic practices link and absorb autobiography, art history, information systems and commodity culture. On view at Hauser & Wirth’s West Hollywood location in Los Angeles, this presentation will debut new paintings, some of which were completed during her recent residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, alongside site-specific responses to the architecture of the gallery’s 1930s Spanish Colonial Revival building. Katz’s paintings are informed – and united – by her relentless curiosity about the ways in which images perform and construct meaning. The artist skillfully combines surface materiality, word play and humor with literary and cultural references, imagining paintings as interconnected sites of metaphysical transformation.