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Click HERE to see Aponovich 52 featured in Joyce Kulhawik's online column Joyce's Choices
Click HERE to read Rachel Slade's online post on ROOST, Inspiration and Ideas for your Home, BOSTON Magazine's Boston Home blog
Click HERE to read Charles Giuliano's interview/converstion with James Aponovich in Berkshire Fine Arts
Click HERE to read about James Aponovich as a LIfetime Fellow of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
APONOVICH 52
Clark Gallery is honored to announce James Aponovich has set out on an unprecendented marathon. An internationally renowned painter, James will be devoting himself to completing one painting each week for the next 52 weeks. Please follow along on James' Blog at: APONOVICH 52, and join him on his remarkable journey. With each completed painting, James will post an entry with notes on his painstaking process enabling the viewer unequaled access to the thoughts, inspirations and work ethic of this important American painter.
Aponovich paints complex still life compositions, with a strong undercurrent of surrealism pervading the work. His exquisite paintings are distinguished by their geometry, proportion, composition and light filled atmosphere. Referencing 17th Century Dutch and Flemish still life painters, masters of the Renaissance, and the surreal compositional components of mid 20th century painters, Aponovich's paintings are technically astounding idealizations of reality.
James has a lengthy and illustrious exhibition history. His paintings and drawings are represented in museum collections across the country including: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the New Britain Museum of American Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; The Currier Museum of Art; the Arkansas Art Institute; the Portland Museum of Art, among others. Aponovich lives in New Hampshire, where he was bestowed the honorary designation as the State of New Hampshire's Artist Laureate.
With APONOVICH 52, James will be entering a new terrain for painters of his genre. With his strict conceptual time-based premise of completing one painting each week for one year, with the resulting 52 paintings becoming the subject of an exhibition at year's end, his painting methodolgy becomes part performance, part ritual and part obsession. In directing all his thought and efforts to completing a painting each week, APONOVICH 52 becomes a work of profound contemplation on art and the act of painting: transcendent,inspirational and visionary.
Please check in at APONOVICH 52 to see each painting unveiled every week. And please be sure to visit the exhibition in May of 2012.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 James Aponovich: A Retrospective, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
New Still Life Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Recent Still Lifes, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY
1996 The Art of Still Life, The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
1994 Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY
1992 Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1990 Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1982 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1979 Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Flower Power, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2008 Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2000 Eloquent Objects: The Sense and Sensibility of Still-Life Painting, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
A Noble Tradition Revisited: Still Life Painters from Hacket Freedman Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Contemporary American Realist Drawings, the Jalene and Richard Davidson Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1997 Re-Presenting Representation III, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1996 American Realism, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
Cornucopia, Champion International, Stamford, CT
The Order of Things, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville FL
Flower Paintings, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Realism ’95, Vision and Poetry, Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Summer Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff & Co., New York, NY
1994 Getting Romantic Again, Tatischeff Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
Un-still Still Life: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in Oil, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, RI
Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary American Realism, Broden Gallery, Madison, WI
American Realism and Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1993 Still Life 1963-93, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992 Masters of Still Life, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
20th Century Contemporary Self Portraits, Midtwon-Payson Gallery, New York, NY
1991 New Horizons in American Realism, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Artists by Artists, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Aponovich/Johansson, Works on Paper, Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, MA
The Object Observed, Fitchenburg Art Museum, Flitchenburg, MA
1990 Boston Printmakers Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
20th Century American Flower Paintings, Ft. Lauderdale Museum, Ft Lauderdale, FL
1989 James Aponovich and Elizabeth Johansson, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
1988 A Feast for the Eyes, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Regional Selections, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
New Work, New Hampshire, Thorne Sagendorf Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
Invitational Exhibition, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
New England Now, Contemporary Art from Six New England States, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (Traveling Exhibition)
1987 Realism Today, Selections from Rita Rich Collection, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, NC
The Portrait, FIU, Miami, FL
American Drawings, Realism/Idealism, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Portraits, Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
Form of Formula: Discourses on Drawing and Drawings, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1985 American Realism, Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
New Figurative Painting, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Recent American Portraiture, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Recent American Still Life, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
The Still Life, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
New England Landscape, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1983 Perspectives on Contemporary Realism, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
New Hampshire Biennial, Manchester Institute of Arts &Sciences, Manchester, NH
1982 Group Show, AVA Gallery, Hanover, NH
1981 New Hampshire Biennial, Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences, Manchester, NH
AVA Gallery, Hanover, NH
Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1979 New Hampshire Biennial, Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences, Manchester, NH
New England Drawing Competition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
The Still Life, The Art Association of Newport, Newport RI
1978 The DoCordova Collects New England Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
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