LAKE GEORGE — The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents “Games of Chance,” a solo exhibition of work by Fern T. Apfel. The exhibition runs from March 16 – April 16.
Abstraction and narration fold together in Fern Apfel’s acrylic paintings. Her images contain memorabilia she has collected over many years. Playing cards, letters, handwritten notes and other various ephemera are placed on top, or layered above, colored backgrounds in an intentionally considered minimal composition. In our contemporary time, where so much communication is digital, and emails are often deleted, these painted objects can center and ground us in the physical world, reminding us of our connections and threads of discourse through time, triggering memory, as well as recording our lives. Intricate and intimate, all the lettering is done freehand.
Apfel earned her BA at the State University of NY at New Paltz, and also studied at The Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Region of New York where she lives. Currently her work is included in a show titled Pieced Together, at Pine Bush Library in Albany, and a solo exhibition of her work will take place in early 2023 (date TBA) in the Main Gallery of The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 p.m., Saturday noon – 4 p.m.
There will be a live online talk with the artist at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 19. A direct link to the talk can be found at www.lakegeorgearts.org
