I am trying to make paintings that have some real energy – the here and now. It’s like fashion, really. — Alex Katz

Following Alex Katz’s landmark show at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini during the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, this exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin reunites, for the first time, the works shown together in the City of Water. Spanning three major groupings of work made between 2021 and 2022, the paintings on view represent three key facets of the artist’s practice, the boundaries of which continue to expand seven decades into his career. A group of works based on outfits by mid-century American fashion designer Claire McCardell is accompanied by large-scale close-up depictions of inky-hued oceans, and of grassland in tones of greens and yellows.