Allison Katz: Diary w/o Dates

Allison Katz’s work is driven by a curiosity for the everyday, language, oral and written history, and her own experience. Primarily a painter, Katz refuses formal or thematic coherence across her work opting instead for a non-hierarchical approach generated by humor and observation. While consistently figurative, her work spans a wide spectrum of subject, scale, technique, and style. A constellation of ideas and associations—functioning like a notebook, at times unpredictable or contradictory—her paintings always consider larger existential concerns. Her List Center exhibition Diary w/o Dates centers around a new series of twelve paintings that take their point of departure from the French Revolutionary Calendar, a 12-year experiment in restructuring time.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.