ABOUT RAFAEL KATZ
Seven years after his birth in Lecce, Italy, Rafael Katz picked up a pencil and started drawing crude comics. His favorite subjects at the time were his parents and his brothers. Several years later, Rafael picked up his first R. Crumb comic. It was nine years after that that he decided to devote his life to painting. Three years of intensive study of Chinese art in Taiwan and China grounded the inquisitive young Katz in a form of art that was very akin, in spirit, to studying and making music. Rafael rounded out his study of art at such places as Brown University, FIT, Yale, and the Art's Student League. Rafael's current work can be summarized as a melding of Chinese technique with Western themes and ideas.
EXHIBITIONS
May 2000 E Kah Ni Gallery, Wheeler, OR, 2 person show
April 2000 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, 4 person show
August 1997 Project 416 Gallery, Seattle, WA, group show
July, 1996 Gallery 33, Portland, OR, group show
March 1996 OMS Gallery, Portland, OR, 3 person show
Jan. 1992 Benjamin Rosenthal Art Gallery, Queens College, NY, group show
Dec. 1991 Chung Cheng Gallery, St. John's University, NY, group show
Nov. 1990 Travelling Public Library Exhibit, Queens, NY
Feb. 1987 Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, MA, group show
August 1987 Sherkat Gallery, NYC, NY, 2 person show
Jan. 1987 80 Washing Sq. East Galleries, NYC,NY, group show
August 1985 Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO, group show