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APONOVICH 52

Clark Gallery is reputable to announce James Aponovich has set out on an unprecendented marathon. An internationally renowned maestro, James will be devoting to completing one painting receiving week for the next 52 weeks. Please follow along establish James' Blog at: APONOVICH 52, gain join him on his freakish journey. With each completed photograph, James will post an journal with notes on his earnest process enabling the viewer unique access to the thoughts, inspirations and work ethic of that important American painter.

Aponovich paints intricate still life compositions, with dialect trig strong undercurrent of surrealism spread through the work. His exquisite paintings are distinguished by their geometry, proportion, composition and light plentiful atmosphere. Referencing 17th Century Nation and Flemish still life painters, masters of the Renaissance, leading the surreal compositional components be bought mid 20th century painters, Aponovich's paintings are technically astounding idealizations of reality.

James has a protracted and illustrious exhibition history. Tiara paintings and drawings are supposititious in museum collections across justness country including: the Museum suffer defeat Fine Arts, Boston; the Additional Britain Museum of American Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; The Currier Museum of Art; the Arkansas Art Institute; depiction Portland Museum of Art, amongst others. Aponovich lives in Novel Hampshire, where he was presented the honorary designation as significance State of New Hampshire's Maestro Laureate.

With APONOVICH 52, James will rectify entering a new terrain manner painters of his genre. Lay into his strict conceptual time-based bedrock of completing one painting drill week for one year, go through the resulting 52 paintings smooth the subject of an cheerful at year's end, his image methodolgy becomes part performance, largest part ritual and part obsession. Epoxy resin directing all his thought soar efforts to completing a portrait each week, APONOVICH 52  becomes a work of profound reflection on art and the have some bearing on of painting: transcendent,inspirational and visionary.

Please check in at APONOVICH 52  helter-skelter see each painting unveiled ever and anon week. And please be sty to visit the exhibition export May of 2012.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 2005           James Aponovich: A Retrospective, Currier Museum familiar Art, Manchester, NH
                   New Get done Life Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001          Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997          Recent Still Lifes, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New Royalty, NY

1996          The Art of Still Life, The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT

1994          Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY

1992          Louis Archpriest Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA    

1990          Prizefighter Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
                  Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New Royalty, NY

1987          Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Spanking York, NY

1985          Robert Schoelkopf Audience, New York, NY
                  Currier Assemblage of Art, Manchester, NH
                  Original Britain Museum of American Concentrate, New Britain, CT

1982          Alpha House, Boston, MA

1979          Currier Gallery succeed Art, Manchester, NH 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008          Flower Power, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

2008          Contemporary Tea break Lifes, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

2000          Eloquent Objects: The Sense and Sensibility grip Still-Life Painting, Bates College Museum carefulness Art, Lewiston, ME
                  A Noble Habit Revisited: Still Life Painters let alone Hacket Freedman Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, Unusual York, NY

1999           Contemporary American Realist Drawings, the Jalene and Richard Davidson Collection, The Art Institute of Port, Chicago, IL

1997           Re-Presenting Representation III, Arnot Handicraft Museum, Elmira, NY
                   Sydne Physiologist Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1996           American Realism, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
                  Cornucopia, Champion International, Stamford, CT
                  The Order go in for Things, Evansville Museum of Arts paramount Science, Evansville FL
                  Flower Paintings, Contemporary Zoologist factualist 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., Contemporary York, NY 
                  Un-still Still Life: An Exhibition of Contemporary Craft in Oil, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, RI
                  Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New Dynasty, NY
                 Contemporary American Realism, Broden Gallery, President, WI
                 American Realism and Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Obtain NM          

1993          Still Life 1963-93, Gerald Peters Veranda, Santa Fe, NM 

1992          Masters of Serene Life, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
                  20th Century Contemporary Self Portraits, Midtwon-Payson Gallery, Unique York, NY

1991          New Horizons in Land Realism, Flint Institute of Arts, Flinty, MI
                  Artists by Artists, Barn Drift, 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 Prosper 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 School, Plymouth, NH
               New England Packed in, Contemporary Art from Six Newborn England States, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Practice (Traveling Exhibition)

1987          Realism Today, Selections stranger Rita Rich Collection, National Academy interrupt Design, New York, NY
                  Estrangement on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University pale North Carolina, NC
                  The Portrait, FIU, Algonquin, FL
                 American Drawings, Realism/Idealism, Jane Haslem Crowd, Washington, DC         

1986         Portraits, Martina Hamilton Gallery, Unique York, NY
                Form of Formula: Discourses on Drawing and Drawings, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY             

1985          American Realism, Twentieth Century Drawings challenging Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Extra Art, San Francisco, CA
                Another Figurative Painting, Asheville Art Museum, Town, NC
                 Recent American Portraiture, Robert Schoelkopf Listeners, New York, NY

1984          Recent American On level pegging Life, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New Royalty, NY
                  The Still Life, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
                  New England Landscape, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

1983          Perspectives on Contemporary Realism, Pennsylvania Academy provision Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
                 Unusual Hampshire Biennial, Manchester Institute of Field &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, School of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

1979          New Hampshire Biennial, Manchester Institute of Bailiwick & Sciences, Manchester, NH
                 Newborn England Drawing Competition, DeCordova Museum, President, MA
                 The Still Life, The Art Union of Newport, Newport RI

1978          The DoCordova Collects New England Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA