I learned about great meals when…, 2011 24″ x 44″ (image size 20″ x 40″), digital print on archival bamboo paper, Edition of 42 with 3 AP/s, printed by Ken Allen Studio, NY after Jean-Baptiste Chardin, La Brioche, 1763, Louvre, Paris TEXT: I learned about great meals one Saturday night before Rosh Hashonah. The bakery opened after…
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 “Says Me. Says You?” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2024 “Twenty-two Carrots: lluminated Manuscripts in the Age of Social Media and Texting,” Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI 2021 “Nachbarn – Voisin.e.s,” Biennale Internationale d’Autun, Chapelle Saint-Aubin, Cour de la Maîtrise, Autun, France (catalogue) 2019 “L’Encyclopédie et Nous ? Oeuvres et Vidéo…
Ken Aptekar is an artist who combines painting with text. He paints new versions of historical paintings and frames, bolting glass with sandblasted words to his painted panels. Aptekar’s work belongs to the tradition of painting, yet he brings to that tradition a recognition that paintings produce meaning only through their interaction with viewers. He…