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In 'Standing Ada,' Alex Katz portrays his wife, who has posed for her husband regularly since 1957. Katz depicts Ada in his characteristic austere style as a hybrid print/sculpture. The artist refers to his two-sided images screen-printed on freestanding aluminum plates as “cut-outs.” Katz made his first painted flat sculpture in 1959 after he removed individual figures from the background of a painting he found unsatisfactory. When artist Robert Rauschenberg suggested Katz display the cut-out figures on their own, he mounted them on plywood and stood them upright. 'Standing Ada' is Katz’s first printed cutout; his earlier sculptures were in oil paint on aluminum.
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