A Life Painted in Memory: The World of Alex Katz Alex Katz (1927-2013) wasn’t a painter who sought to capture the world as it *is*, but rather as it *feels*. His canvases, often dominated by seemingly simple scenes – a couple sitting on a porch, a woman in a fur coat, a solitary figure walking down a street – are imbued with an unsettling stillness, a quiet intensity that draws the viewer into a realm of memory and emotion. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Ukrainian immigrant parents who had lost their factory in Odessa during the Russian Revolution, Katz’s early life was marked by displacem…