Fern T. Apfel, "Blue on Blue (Infant’s Jacket)"
$1800. Acrylic on wood panel, 24” x 20, 2020-22
Price does not include shipping. Email info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist statement
I’m a grandmother now; but balancing art, children and jobs as a young mother was not easy. I woke up at 4:30 am to have time alone in my studio. I remember finishing drawings with a child on my lap. Just to keep me going while preparing for a solo show, I imagined a sign that said this would have been a better show but Fern cleaned the bathroom, did the dishes, and took the kids to the movies.
This infant's garment invokes the memories embedded in textile; the distance between a garment’s active life and its afterlife and the way some children’s clothing carries multigenerational histories, recalled by touch, color, or smell, not needing to name what, in a given moment, pulls at the heart.
Artist bio
Fern T. Apfel has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Region of New York where she lives. Apfel is a two-time recipient of the Individual Artists Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a four-time recipient of a Mohawk Hudson Regional Purchase Award. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of The Hyde Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Albany Institute of History & Art, SUNY Albany Museum, The Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon, The Columbia County Historical Society and Museum and The Art Students League of NY. In March 2022, Apfel had a solo exhibition at The Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, NY and her work was included in InstaSelect2 at the Mark Borghi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY. In 2023, Apfel will have a solo exhibition in the Main Gallery at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Apfel has been featured on WMHT/PBS’s A House for Arts.
$1800. Acrylic on wood panel, 24” x 20, 2020-22
Price does not include shipping. Email info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist statement
I’m a grandmother now; but balancing art, children and jobs as a young mother was not easy. I woke up at 4:30 am to have time alone in my studio. I remember finishing drawings with a child on my lap. Just to keep me going while preparing for a solo show, I imagined a sign that said this would have been a better show but Fern cleaned the bathroom, did the dishes, and took the kids to the movies.
This infant's garment invokes the memories embedded in textile; the distance between a garment’s active life and its afterlife and the way some children’s clothing carries multigenerational histories, recalled by touch, color, or smell, not needing to name what, in a given moment, pulls at the heart.
Artist bio
Fern T. Apfel has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Region of New York where she lives. Apfel is a two-time recipient of the Individual Artists Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a four-time recipient of a Mohawk Hudson Regional Purchase Award. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of The Hyde Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Albany Institute of History & Art, SUNY Albany Museum, The Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon, The Columbia County Historical Society and Museum and The Art Students League of NY. In March 2022, Apfel had a solo exhibition at The Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, NY and her work was included in InstaSelect2 at the Mark Borghi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY. In 2023, Apfel will have a solo exhibition in the Main Gallery at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Apfel has been featured on WMHT/PBS’s A House for Arts.
$1800. Acrylic on wood panel, 24” x 20, 2020-22
Price does not include shipping. Email info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist statement
I’m a grandmother now; but balancing art, children and jobs as a young mother was not easy. I woke up at 4:30 am to have time alone in my studio. I remember finishing drawings with a child on my lap. Just to keep me going while preparing for a solo show, I imagined a sign that said this would have been a better show but Fern cleaned the bathroom, did the dishes, and took the kids to the movies.
This infant's garment invokes the memories embedded in textile; the distance between a garment’s active life and its afterlife and the way some children’s clothing carries multigenerational histories, recalled by touch, color, or smell, not needing to name what, in a given moment, pulls at the heart.
Artist bio
Fern T. Apfel has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Region of New York where she lives. Apfel is a two-time recipient of the Individual Artists Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a four-time recipient of a Mohawk Hudson Regional Purchase Award. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of The Hyde Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Albany Institute of History & Art, SUNY Albany Museum, The Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon, The Columbia County Historical Society and Museum and The Art Students League of NY. In March 2022, Apfel had a solo exhibition at The Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, NY and her work was included in InstaSelect2 at the Mark Borghi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY. In 2023, Apfel will have a solo exhibition in the Main Gallery at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Apfel has been featured on WMHT/PBS’s A House for Arts.