I was holed up in Burgundy as Covid began to rage. In a corner of the vaultedfurnace room of my house, I began working with gouache, tiny brushes, goldleaf, and calligraphy pens, standing in my own scriptorium in a little village inthe Morvan forest. This is my first foray into the world of illuminated manuscripts….
“Ken Aptekar: Twenty-two Carrots,” January 20–March 9, Wasserman Projects. tel 313.818.3550 info@wassermanprojects.com 3434 Russell Street, #502, Detroit, Michigan 48207 https://wassermanprojects.com/winter-2024/ “Ken Aptekar: Says me. Says you?” January 26–March 2, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, tel 212.262.5050, info@tibordenagy.com 11 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002 https://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions And in Lucerne, Switzerland, Ken Aptekar’s “Breaking News/Flash Info” suite of…
11/2022 Ken Aptekar’s 1995 painting, “Goldfinch. Used to be Goldfarb.”, is on view in a new exhibition at the Judisches Museum Wien (Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria) entitled “100 Misunderstandings about and among Jews.” https://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/exhibition_detail?j-cc-id=1664868231106&j-cc-node=ausstellung&j-cc-name=hybrid-content
July 16, 2021 – August 1, 2021, Autun, France https://www.biennale-autun.com/les-plasticiens/ken-aptekar See installation views and opening ceremony: CLICK HERE
Watch the Live Ceremony and Performance at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall HERE Read the Press Release HERE
A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA (2003), six archival inkjet prints 57cm x 76.5cm, is inspired by Madame de Pompadour. Although Pompadour managed to convince Louis XV to support the publication of the Encyclopédie, the knowledge it offered the French did not include answers to questions that Aptekar thought might be central to her life. So he created a kind…
READ ARTICLE IN University of Michigan STAMPS SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN NEWSLETTER SEE BREAKING NEWS/FLASH INFO PRINT PORTFOLIO IN EXHIBITION SEE VIDEO IN EXHIBITION SEE A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA PRINT PORTFOLIO IN EXHIBITION SEE VIEWS OF THE EXHIBITION IN AUTUN L’Encyclopédie et nous? Oeuvres et vidéo de Ken Aptekar (The Encyclopedia and Us ? Digital…