Allison Katz: Outta the Bag marks Katz's first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth New York, extending her inquiry into what painting can record, absorb, and transmit. Framing devices operate throughout as both motif and structure: a MoMA interior viewed through a wide-open mouth, a rooster balanced atop a submerged self-portrait. Wordplay, art-historical citation, and personal archive assemble through association rather than chronology. The exhibition proposes painting as uniquely capable of holding disparate registers in a single shifting field — where looking is inseparable from the frame that enables it.
