“Gatherings,” a retrospective of the work of Jewish American figurative artist Alex Katz, 95, will open in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Oct. 21 and run through Feb. 20, 2023. “Across eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz (b. 1927, Brooklyn, NY) has sought to capture visual experience in the present tense,” the museum said. “Katz has forged a mode of figurative painting that fused the energy of Abstract Expressionist canvases with the American vernaculars of the magazine, billboard, and movie screen.

The retrospective will include paintings, oil sketches, collage, drawings, prints, and freestanding “cutout” works. The exhibition will begin with the artist’s intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway from the late 1940s, and will culminate in the immersive landscapes that have dominated his output in recent years.