Thank you for passing this along. I do not think this is one for us. Maybe in the future we can do something with the kemper. Liz
>>> dana self <[log in to unmask]> 01/30/01 02:45AM >>>
Exhibition available of the ten-year retrospective of the work of Ken Aptekar. There is a slot available in the summer of 2002.
Please contact me if you are interested.
Thank you for your attention.
Dana Self, Curator
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64111
816-753-5784
Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the Lines, 1990*2000
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Traveling Exhibition Prospectus
New York and Paris-based artist Ken Aptekar has been incorporating text on glass in his work since 1990. He began with a series of silverpoint drawings of medieval armor with small beveled glass "labels" bolted onto the surface of the drawings. For Aptekar, the armor was a pretext for mocking men*s fear of vulnerability.
Having run its course, Aptekar*s next path was to more fully adapt the glass to his painting. He first placed an entire sheet of glass over his image. That process evolved into panels of beveled glass with sandblasted text corresponding to the painted wood panels that comprise his paintings*several panels often "read" as one painting. Over the past 10 years Aptekar*s text has changed from a single word or short phrases to narratives exploring the myriad guises that constitute a complex individual. Histories of his family*sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic*Jewishness, masculinity, and ambition combine with the narratives embedded in the art historical images Aptekar uses as source paintings for his works.
The exhibition will examine this mid-career artist*s work for the past 10 years, unraveling the stories*often autobiographical*that comprise the narrative character of Aptekar*s work. By combining both compelling and often startling text with sometimes seemingly incongruous imagery borrowed from art history*s most-established and often revered figures: El Greco, Boucher, Rembrandt, to name a few, Aptekar sustains emotionally intimate, yet broadly accessible narratives.
Aptekar has exhibited his work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL; and many others. He will have a solo exhibition of his work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, in January 2001. His work is in the collections of the Corcoran Museum of Art, National Museum of Art, Washington, DC; Jewish Museum, NY, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; among others. He is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL.
The exhibition will premiere at the Kemper Museum, September 15*December 2, 2001 (11 weeks), and will be available for travel thereafter.
Rental Fee: $15,000 Shipping one way: prorated, yet to be determined
Required space: 4,000 square feet or about 150 linear feet of paintings (without spaces) Number of works: approximately 30*32
Catalogue: full-color catalogue written by Dana Self, curator, Kemper Museum, Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and Harold Veeser, associate professor of English, The City College of New York, CUNY. Each venue will receive 20 catalogues at no charge.
Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the Lines, 1990*2000
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
The catalogue will be distributed by The University of Washington Press, Seattle
Proposed tour dates
September 15*December 2, 2001*Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
January 14*March 8, 2002*The College of Wooster Art Museum, Sussel and Morgan Galleries, Ebert Art Center, Wooster, OH
May 2002*July 2002
Mid-August 2002*October 2002*Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
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