Upon entering Gray Gallery to view Alex Katz’s exhibit, White Lotus, my gaze is parted by a blue sea of large horizontal paintings and two sections of folding chairs, set up church-like, that merge into a small distant painting hung in an alcove due north of the entrance. This double framed painting, Study for White Lotus, provides a snapshot to a doubling of two subjects—a couple rendered twice—a white skinned, brown-haired man and woman. He is bearded and balding in a white t-shirt. S...
