Fern Apfel
www.fernapfel.com
@fernapfel
Fern Apfel is a Hudson Valley artist who specializes in making paintings with hand written text. Apfel’s work explores memory, language, and the passage of time through meticulously rendered compositions that reference letters, stamps, and printed ephemera.
Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including presentations at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Troutbeck Gallery, the Woodstock Art Association & Museum, and the Arts Center of the Capital Region. Apfel’s paintings are held in numerous public collections, including The Hyde Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, The Albany Institute of History & Art, SUNY Albany Museum, and The Art Students League of New York. Capital Group Corporate Collection, London, UK, Yangdeng Art Museum, Guizhou Province, China.
In September 2026, Apfel will be having a solo show at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in NY.