Exhibitions

JAMES GRAHAM GALLERY / RECENT PORTRAITS

Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010

Instead of showing the person, my portraits describe how the sitter looks–at paintings. The excitement and challenge for me results from interacting with an individual across paintings from the past, discovering indirectly something essential about that person. The idea comes out of my conviction that a painting really only begins to mean anything when a viewer responds to it, and its meaning changes according to who’s looking.

 

Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010
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Ken Aptekar, Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010

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