Ken Aptekar

Minutes Later, 2006

37" x 74" (94cm x 188cm),
diptych, oil on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts
After Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

Some nice trees, 2003

70" x 70" (178 cm x 178 cm),
Four panels, oil/wood, sandblasted glass, bolts
After Meyndert Hobbema, Road on a Dyke, 1663

Text: I'm an artist. I wanted to paint some nice trees.
Nature, you know. Can't anything just be what it is?

Angels?, 2000

30" x 30" (76.5cm x 76.5cm)
sandblasted glass, bolts

Text: Angels? Who's ever seen one!
Gustave Courbet (1819 1877), French realist painter

THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND, 2008

60 " x 60" (153cm x 153cm),
oil on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts
After Eugene Verboeckhoven, A Panoramic Summer Landscape with Cattle Grazing in a Meadow, 1864

Text: The answer is blowing in the wind

Portrait of GLW, 2008

70 " x 70" (178cm x 178cm), four panels
oil on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts
After George Stubbs, The Prince of Wales' Phaeton, 1793

Text: NOT ENGLISH NOT GOYISHE NOT ROYAL NOT ALLOWED NOT
RESTRAINED NOT THEN NOT NOW NOT HERE NOT THERE NOT DONE
NOT ALONE

Ken Aptekar is a painter who mixes traditional paintings with his own insight. He combines paintings with an overlay of text. His goal in his work is to bring a contemporary view to the history of art. His texts are the things that one is not supposed to say about art but what everyone is thinking or whispers to their friend while looking at a piece in a museum.