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Artworks
Allison Katz
Cabbage (and Philip) No. 27, 2020Oil on linen16 3/4 x 14 inches
42.5 x 35.5 cmKatz’s work operates in a poetic space between mirror and mask, between revealing and concealing what is presented, calling attention to the multiple layers of consciousness that reside in a...Katz’s work operates in a poetic space between mirror and mask, between revealing and concealing what is presented, calling attention to the multiple layers of consciousness that reside in a painting’s surface and subject. Cabbage (and Phillip) is a small-scale still life featuring the vegetable and a shadow of a human profile. The cabbage belongs to a series of intentionally open-ended emblems—in addition to monkeys, cocks, noses, elves and fairies, and female figures, among others—that recur throughout the artist’s work and form a personal lexicon.1of 3
