Expired

Kenneth Zoran Curwood Carol Saft Roxanne Wolanczyk Expired looks at how aging is framed in a culture that often treats relevance as temporary and youth as a requirement for visibility. The title plays on the dual meaning of expired: a Gen Z term for being past one’s prime and a clinical expression for death. The exhibition asks how we confront time, transformation, and the inevitability of mortality. Saft’s intimate paintings depict her wife beneath a red LED skincare mask, a tool marketed for rejuvenation. The glowing portraits convey tenderness while revealing the internalized pressures placed on aging bodies, turning self-care into a ritual shaped by cultural expectations. Curwood contributes multimedia works focused on obsolescence and time’s passage. A mounted leaf slowly decays, and an analog sculpture modeled after an Amazon Echo humorously reflects the disconnect between older generations and rapidly changing technology. Wolanczyk presents text-based ceramic vessels that blend classical form with personal declaration. These works acknowledge both fragility and endurance as time reshapes the body and identity. They assert that relevance does not expire and claim space for continued transformation. Expired was selected through Apexart’s Open Call. Roxanne Wolanczyk is a New York City–based artist raised within a lineage of feminist pedagogy. Her work merges classical form with text-based reflection, creating ceramic artifacts of consci ousness that meditate on endurance, transformation, and the exi stential conditions of contemporary life. Apexart’ s program supporters past and present Affirmation Arts Fund, The Buhl Foundation, the Eisenberg Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The William Talbot Hillman Foundation, Epstein-Teicher Philanthropies, Fifth Floor Found ation, Greenwich Collection Ltd., the Kettering Family Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, LMCC, Mindel Family Cha ritable Annuity Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Counci l on the Arts, and the Puffin Foundation

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