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for Allison Katz: Inner Momentum
Allison Katz: Inner Momentum
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - Sunday, April 26, 2026
Recipient of the 2023 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO, Montreal-born, UK-based artist Allison Katz makes her AGO debut with an intimate presentation of new and recent works on canvas. Defying traditional categorization, her paintings merge realism with the fantastic, incorporating wordplay and literary, historical, and autobiographic details to upend viewers’ expectations.
Truth (2023), a large-scale painting depicting the artist's grandmother Ruth looking at a Giacometti sculpture greets visitors to the space. A nod to the modernist works installed nearby and the artist's own interest in exhibition design, the painting arrests both the eye and the step, installed on a threshold just inside the entrance, asking visitors to negotiate the artwork as both a painting and a sculptural object.
Allison Katz: Inner Momentum
Truth (2023), a large-scale painting depicting the artist's grandmother Ruth looking at a Giacometti sculpture greets visitors to the space. A nod to the modernist works installed nearby and the artist's own interest in exhibition design, the painting arrests both the eye and the step, installed on a threshold just inside the entrance, asking visitors to negotiate the artwork as both a painting and a sculptural object.
Allison Katz: Inner Momentum