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Bibliography:
Monograph

Kestutis Zapkus, Painting and Drawing. Laima Kreivyte, editor,
essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Marjorie Welish, Sandra Skurvida, and Kes Zapkus,
Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014

Film

With Paint on Canvas: Kes Zapkus. 16mm documentary film by Jerry Gambone,
42 minutes, color, 1980, The American Federation of Arts Film Program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Selected Bibliography
 

Schulze, Franz. Young Painter Shows Immense Skill. (review) Chicago Daily News,
June 30, 1962
Schulze, Franz. Kestutis Zapkus. Lituanus, Vol. VII, No. 4, Dec. 1962
Kurauskas, Algirdas. Kestutis Zapkus. (catalogue) Ciurlionis Gallery, Chicago, 1962
Mackus, Algimantas. (review) Margutis, Chicago, Vol 35, No. 7, July - Aug. 1962
Kestutis Zapkus. (catalogue) Gres Gallery, Chicago, Sept. 1962
Second Annual Chicago Arts Festival, Awards Winners. (brochure) Jan. 6-Feb. 15, 1964
Schulze, Franz. (review) ARTnews, Jan. 1964
Ragon, Michel. (review) Les Arts, Paris, France, May 1964
Ashberry, John. Herald Tribune International, Paris, France, May 26, 1964
Bouret, Jean. (review) Les Lettres Francaises, May 21-27, 1964
Prapuolenis, B. (review) Draugas, 1964
Karpuszko, Kazmir. Kestutis Zapkus. (catalogue) Kazimir Gallery, Chicago, 1965
Friedlander, Alberta R. (review) Chicago Tribune, May 30, 1965
Haydon, Harold. A Time to be Proud. (review) Chicago Sun-Times, May 30, 1965
Prapuolenis, Bernardas. (review) Draugas, Saturday, June 5, 1965
Bradunas, Kazys. (review) Draugas, Part Two, Nr. 112 (19), May 13, 1967
Dainauskas, J. (review) Draugas, Part Two Nr. 26 (5), Jan. 31, 1970
Ratcliff, Carter. (review) ARTnews, Nov. 1971
New American Abstract Painting. (catalogue) Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1972
New American Abstract Painting. (catalogue) Northern Illinois University Art Gallery,
DeKalb, IL, 1973
Options, 73/30. (catalogue) Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1973
Baro, Gene. The Way of Color, 33rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. (catalogue),
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1973
Gilbert Rolf, Jeremy. (review) Artforum, Jan. 1974
The Stedeliik Museum Collection, 1963-1973, (catalogue). Jan. 1974
Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974. (catalogue) Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1974
Lubell, Ellen. (review) Arts Magazine, March 1975
Frank, Peter. (review) Soho Weekly News, Dec. 6, 1975
A Change of View. (catalogue) The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1975
Ashton, Dore. Painting Endures. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1975
Kaplan, Patricia, Kes Zapkus at Paula Cooper. (review) Art in America, Sept. 1975
Larson, Philip, Kes Zapkus. (review) Arts Magazine, June 1976
Perspective ’76. (catalogue) Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, 1976
Critics' Choice. (catalogue) Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, and Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1977
Fall 1977: Contemporary Collection. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1977
Lubell, Ellen, Kes Zapkus. (review) Arts Magazine, 1977
Russell, John. (review) The New York Times, May 13, 1977
Gleiny, Christine. Kes Zapkus: Des Signes Infinitesmal. (review) Galerie Jardin des Arts,
Arts Lettres, No: 180, Paris, May 1978
Saure, Wolfgang. (review) Das Kunstwerk (The Work of Art), Baden-Baden, Germany,
June, 1978
Stearns, Robert. Kes Zapkus, Paintings 1968-78. (catalogue) The Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH, 1978
Brown, Ellen. (review) Cincinnati Post, Saturday, July 1, 1978
Findsen, Owen. Zapkus Paints Symphonies on Canvas. Cincinnati Enquirer, July 2, 1978
Sawin, Martica. Kes Zapkus. (review) Arts Magazine, June 1979
Frank, Peter. (review) The Village Voice, June 4, 1979
Russell, John. (review) The New York Times, May 25, 1979
Castle, Ted. Kes Zapkus' Modern Warfare. Artforum, March 1981
Lippard, Lucy. Notes on 'With Paint on Canvas', Film Screening Program Notes,
Anthology Film Archives / Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. - March 1981
Kestutis Zapkus. Ateitis, No.3, Chicago, 1981
Baro, Gene, Kes Zapkus: Drawing into Painting. (catalogue) Carnegie Institute, 1981
Glueck, Grace. (review) The New York Times, Friday, Nov. 27, 1981
Lochridge, Katherine. Kes Zapkus: Notation/Progression. (catalogue) Hecksher Museum, 1982
Frank, Peter and Kenneth Freidman. Building a Contemporary Collection. Diversion, May 1982
Castle, Ted. Art Norms in 1982. Journal, Summer 1982
Lippard, Lucy R. Art Tranquil, Art Defiant: Kes Zapkus. Art in America, Summer 1982
Užupis, Vaidotas. (review) Aidai, Brooklyn, NY, No. 2, 1982
Glueck, Grace. (review) The New York Times, Sept. 30, 1983
Raynor, Vivien. (review) The New York Times, Sunday, Nov. 18, 1984
Larson, Kay. (review) New York Magazine, Nov. 26, 1984
Lippard, Lucy R. Battle Cries. The Village Voice, Dec. 4, 1985
Warren, Ron. Kes Zapkus at John Weber. (review) Arts, Jan. 1985
Baker, Kenneth. Kes Zapkus at John Weber (review) Art in America, March 1985
Kavaliauskas, Vilius. (review) Gimtasis kraštas, February 4-10, 1988
Welish, Marjorie. Kes Zapkus at John Weber. (review) ARTnews, April 1988
Kuspit, Donald. Sightings: Drawings in Color. (catalogue) Pratt Institute, New York and
Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain, 1988-1989
Kestutis Zapkus. (catalogue) Lietuvos TSR dailės muziejus, Vilnius, 1989
Kostkevičiūtė, Irena. (review) Kultūros Barai, 1989
Zapkus, Kestutis. (essay) Kultūros Barai, No. 7, 1989
Jurėnaitė, Raminta. (review) Krantai, August 1989
Cyphers, Peggy. Kes Zapkus at John Weber, (review) Arts Magazine, Dec. 1989
The Grid: Organization and Idea. Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College,
Wayne, NJ, 1990
Drawings: An Exhibition of Artists Represented by the John Weber Gallery. (catalogue)
Arco 91, Madrid, Spain, 1991
Art on Paper. (catalogue) The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1991
Welish, Marjorie. The Open Work. (essay) published by John Good Gallery, New York, 1992
Marcinkevičiūtė, Rūta. (review) 7 meno dienos, No. 17, May 1, 1992
Liutkus, Viktoras. (review) Literatura ir Menas, No. 6, June 1992
On European Culture. (interview) Literatura ir Menas, Vilnius, 1992
Wei, Lily. Kes Zapkus at Andre Zarre. (review) Art in America, Sept. 1995
Naujokaitis, Audrius. (essay) Kultūros Barai, No. 10, 1995
Kašubienė, Aleksandra. Kestutis Zapkus Exhibit in New York. (review) Darbininkas,
Nr.12, Brooklyn, March 24,1995
Welish, Marjorie. Indeterminacy Meets Encyclopedia: Kestutis Zapkus. Signifying Art: Essays
on Art After 1960, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Toth, Ferenc. The Bryan Montgomery Collection. (catalogue) Museum of Fine Arts,
Budapest, Hungary, 1999
Martinaitis, Marcelijus. (review) Šiaurės Atėnai, No. 7 (545), February 17, 2001
Wood, Liz. Riffs in Paint. The Suffolk Times, Mattituck, NY, July 5, 2001
Dodge, Norton T. and Alla Rosenfeld. Art of the Baltics. Rutgers University Press, NJ, 2001,
Procuta, Egle. A Painter Who Never Has Enough. Lithuania in the World, Vol. 11,
November 4, 2003
Harrison, Helen. (review) The New York Times, LI Section, Aug. 21, 2005
Zapkus, Kestutis. Aspects of Content and Context. (essay) Lituanus, No.53: 2, Chicago,
Summer 2007
Wood, Liz. Floor Plan for Art. The Suffolk Times, Mattituck, NY, Aug. 16, 2007
Berlind, Robert. Kes Zapkus, OK Harris. (review) Art in America, March 2009
Frank, Peter. Kes Zapkus and Tino Zago. Huffington Post, Haiku Review, Dec. 16, 2011
Sapoka, Kestutis and Vytautas Michelkevicius. (editors) Independent Contemporary Art Histories
1987 - 2014, Vol. 1
. LTMKS, Dec. 30, 2011
Abromavicius, Stanislovas. The Two Lives of Alexandras Zapkus. Morkunas ir Ko, Kaunas, 2012
Abromavicius, Stanislovas. (article) Draugas, Saturday, April 20, 2013
Sapoka, Kestutis. Kestutis Zapkus Retrospective in Vilnius. (review) Kultūros Barai, April 2014
Skurvida, Sandra. A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting by Kestutis Zapkus in the Lithuanian
Context
. Daile, 2014 / 1 (Art Review of Lithuanian Artists Association)
Skurvida, Sandra. Permutations of Information in Painting by Kes Zapkus. Lewben Art
Foundation and The National Gallery of Lithuania, 2014
Sapoka, Kestutis and Vytautas Michelkevicius. (editors) Independent Contemporary Art
Histories, 1987 - 2014, Vol 2
. LTMKS, Vilnius, Dec. 31, 2014
American Abstract Artists. The Onward of Art, AAA 80th Anniversary Exhibition. (catalogue) January 2016
Kes Zapkus: Paintings and Drawings. (catalogue) William Holman Gallery, New York, March 2015
Gostautas, Stasys. (review) Draugas, Sat. May 23, 2015
D'Agostino, Paul. Matter & Conjecture. (review) Brooklyn Magazine.com, June, 16, 2016
Impossible Bloom: Paintings from The New School Art Collection. (catalogue) The New School, New York, 2016
Martinaitytė, Žibuoklė. Kestutis Zapkus. (interview) Literatura ir Menas, Nr. 18, May 2017
Brock, Hovey. Kes Zapkus: New Paintings. (review), The Brooklyn Rail, April 4, 2018
Kes Zapkus. (online catalogue), William Holman Gallery, New York, 2017
Art & Us. Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Contemporary Lithuanian Art. (catalogue) Espace Commines, Paris, Menu Tiltas, 2019




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