WASSERMAN PROJECTS, Detroit, Michigan / TWENTY-TWO CARROTS: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Age of Social Media & Texting, January 20-March 9, 2024
Photos ©PD Rearick and Wasserman Projects
Category: Paintings
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Age of Social Media and Texting
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 in 2021 Biennale Internationale Autun d’Art Sacré Contemporaine
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
2020
2020-2029
A SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA
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…
Nachbarn Review in Kunstforum International (German)
CLICK TO READ Kunstforum International Review of Nachbarn
Nachbarn/Neighbors in MyHeimat.de (and on a bus stop!)
Click to read on MyHeimat.de (in German): In der Lübecker Kunsthalle: Bemerkenswerte und beeindruckende Werke des Künstlers Ken Aptekar
I LEARNED ABOUT GREAT MEALS WHEN…. Digital Print, 2011
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…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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…