James Aponovich
Artist Works
40 x 44 inches Oil on liinen
Artist Bio
Aponovich is an internationally renowned artist. His paintings range from distinctive still life compositions, to sweeping landscapes, to more recent paintings filled with a sensual array of flowers and domestic objects set before an Italianate landscape. Inspired by ancient and Renaissance art as well as Dutch seventeenth-century painting, his work is represented in numerous museum collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fiine Arts in Boston, the Portland Art Museum, the Decordova Museum and others. Mr. Aponovich resides in New Hampshire where he has received the prestigiojus honor of being the state's distinguished Artist Laureate.
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