Coming of age as an artist in 1950s New York, Katz developed his unique approach to contemporary representational painting at the height of Abstract Expressionism. Through the late 1980s and 1990s, he focused much of his attention on largescale landscape paintings that he characterises as ‘environmental’, the evolution of which can be seen in the new closely cropped, all-encompassing landscapes and waterscapes on view in the exhibition. As the artist says of these new paintings: ‘The closeup gives the painting much more power and energy. With the close-ups, I could make a realistic painting that could compete with a de Kooning or a Pollock.’ It was not until the 2010s that Katz began painting multiple tightly cropped portraits sequenced across the canvas as if in a strip of film, combining a variety of angles to create the impression of an ‘environmental’ portrait. For this exhibition, he has renewed this 1cinematic compositional logic by applying it to Claire McCardell’s celebrated designs, which are represented in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.