I was commissioned to create an audio piece in response to Alex Katz’s work through a collaboration between The Guggenheim Museum and West Channel, that will be part of an audio guide that can be listened to as you walk through and look at the works in the retrospective

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(NEW YORK, NY—July 25, 2022) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Alex Katz: Gathering, a career retrospective staged in the city where Katz has lived and worked his entire life, and prepared with the close collaboration of the artist. On view from October 21, 2022, through February 20, 2023, the exhibition will fill the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda and an adjacent Tower Gallery. Encompassing over 200 paintings, oil sketches, collages, drawings, prints, and freestanding “cutout” works, the show will open with the artist’s intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway from his student days in the 1940s and culminate in the rapturous and immersive landscapes that have dominated his output in recent years….

A series of digital productions will complement the retrospective, including a newly captured and intimate video portrait of the artist at work; an audio guide featuring observations by Guggenheim curators and notable sitters who appear in Katz’s paintings, including Vincent Katz, Bill T. Jones, Meredith Monk, and Anne Waldman; and a collaboration with the music house West Channel featuring original compositions inspired by Katz’s paintings by Rena Anakwe, Peter Bayne, Oli Chang, Elori Saxl, Michael Sempert, and Hoshiko Yamane. MORE