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work in New York galleries and muse-
ums in 1979.
"The first gallery exhibition was by
chance. I was making my living as a
locksmith and installed a lock on a
gallery director's loft. We got to talk-
ing, and she asked to see my slides. A
month later, she said she was interest-
ed in showing my work."
The style that combines writing with
painting came gradually. After New
York galleries would not allow wall
labels, Aptekar incorporated titles in his
paintings. Short phrases came next and
were followed by longer narratives.
Aptekar, the recipient of two
National Endowment for the Arts
Painting Fellowships, is married to a
former art historian who's now a writer,
Eunice Lipton. Her research work as a
professor at the State University of
New York brought them to Paris often,
and they decided to buy an apartment.
"Because she's a writer and I'm an
artist, we don't have to be in any one
place," Aptekar explains. This next
year, I'm going to be doing a fair
amount of work in Europe because I'm
doing an exhibition at the Victoria and
Albert Museum in London. I'll prepare
that exhibition, in part, in Paris."
Lipton's last book, Alias Olympia, is
about her search for the woman who
posed for Manet's famous painting
Olympia. It was planned to read like a
detective story, although it's a mixture
of fiction, nonfiction and art history.
We share our work with each
other a lot," Aptekar, a former
Detroiter and Cooley High School
graduate, says. Her work as a writer
deals with re-envisioning similar to
what I do as a painter."
Reinventing also enters into his
favorite pastime — cooking. The two
enjoy going to restaurants and try re-
creating their favorite dishes from
those experiences. He also has picked
up on his mother's ethnic recipes and
especially enjoys preparing and eating
crisp potato latkes.
"I feel very self-identified as a Jew,
and it's at the heart of my work,"
Aptekar says. "I've exhibited a lot at
the Jewish Museum in New York, and
I'm active in the community of that
museum. I was in their show 'Too
Jewish? Challenging Traditional
Identities.'"
The title of the Detroit show —
"So What Kind of Name Is That?" —
is taken from the text of an Aptekar
work built on an image of
Rembrandt's son. It comes from ques-
tions posed to Aptekar in the '60s,
when he believed people with anti-
Semitic attitudes were trying to find
out if he was Jewish by learning the
origin of his last name.
"I hope people in Michigan will
find my approach to painting an
encouragement to look at painting,
enjoy painting and reflect on their
own experiences with painting," the
artist says.
The work of Ken Aptekar will be
on display Sept. 24-Nov. 19 at the
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, 480 W
Hancock, Detroit. The opening
reception is 5-7 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 23, and the artist's lecture
follows. (313) 993-7813.
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