Ken Aptekar’s video Round Trip asks what happens when you turn the corner in New York and Paris, and find yourself in Paris and New York. Living in these two great cities, Aptekar uses his experience of walking the streets and rounding corners in both places to get at what it means to make something not…
The Jewish Museum, New York, presents Ken Aptekar discussing his work on view in the Permanent Collection: I Hate the Name Kenneth (1996) in a video produced for the museum in 2008. In this work Ken Aptekar juxtaposes text and images to explore aspects of his own family, identity, and personal beliefs. According to the museum’s statement, “his complex work…
Ken Aptekar, I hear an echo, 2020 Nine panels, oil on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 96″ x 96″, [after Orazio Gentileschi’s Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecelia) (1612), Collection: Detroit Institute of Art] Collection of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Detroit, MI TEXT ON GLASS: 1959. I sit spellbound next to my parents…