Ken Aptekar Charlotte's Charlotte
A contemporary reinterpretation of Allan Ramsay's Coronation Portrait of Queen Charlotte
Commissioned for the Mint Museum Uptown
- the artist's website
- Aptekar's blog
- The Mint Museum and the Digital Filmmaking and Video Production program at The Art Institute of Charlotte partnered to create an educational video that is part of the permanent collection. The video was produced by Charles Easley, directed and edited by Rusty Sheridan and with visual effects by Lea Anderson. View the video here.
- images from the 2010 exhibition at James Graham & Sons Gallery featuring Charlotte's Charlotte
- selected print resources
- Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures, Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997.
- Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the LInes 1990-2000, Kansas City, MO: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, 2001.
- Many reviews and essays on Aptekar's work may be found at his website.
- interviews
- selected museum collections
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
"Using the history of art as his playground, Aptekar toys with paintings from the past,
and he connects them to the present. His work implies that paintings are nothing on their own,
that they start to mean something only when you start talking back to them." from the artist's website
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edited by Laura Brown, intern
