Recent Portraits © Ken Aptekar 2010
Recent Portraits documents the backstories behind a series of painted portraitsby Ken Aptekar. In advance of his 2010 solo exhibition at Graham Gallery in NYC,Aptekar interviewed the subjects of his portraits for the show. Instead ofhow the people looked, these portraits show how they looked....at paintings.In museums, mostly, but also in the private collection of two of Aptekar's "sitters." Using their candid responses, Aptekar interpreted the paintings they looked atand wrote texts that came out of the videotaped interviews. Together the textand image constitute a new kind of portrait. The paintings that resulted fromthese interviews can be found here: CLICK