For more than a decade, Allison Katz’s (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada) has been exploring painting’s relationship to questions of identity and expression, selfhood and voice. Animated by a restless sense of humor and curiosity, her works articulate a tricksy language of recurring forms—roosters, monkeys, and cabbages, among other things – that are by turns familiar and enigmatic, and through which the artist’s sustained and critical pursuit of “genuine ambiguity” takes shape. The work for Artery was developed over the last two years, in parallel with the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic. The new paintings, posters, and exhibition design are infused with questions of communication and connection, distancing, and intimacy.
