Born in Detroit, Michigan, artist Ken Aptekar is best known for works that combine new versions of historical paintings with text. His works have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The New Museum, New York. Aptekar has received two National Endowment in the Arts fellowships, a Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. He lives in Paris and New York.
My Mother Posing for Me is one of a series of photographs that Sultan made of his parents, Irving and Jean, from 1983 to 1992. They were published in his book, Pictures from Home, which explored the…
Based on an earlier (1992) image with soldiers in mixed media, this painting depicts soldiers in a setting that does not suggest a particular place. Instead, the yellow background with various insects…
Can Jews remain in East-Central Europe? That is the question.
Hungary has between eighty and a hundred thousand Jews, Romania about twenty thousand, the rest of the countries a few thousand each. Jews…