--- title: 2015_Van Aken_Observer date: 2017-10-10T13:09:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-observer" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) Artist Made a Frankentree That Bears 40 Different Fruits Observer Jul 22, 2015 "Syracuse University professor and artist Sam Van Aken grew up on a farm, but he never thought he’d become the agricultural equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein. “I hadn’t really thought about farming for twenty years,” said Mr. Van Aken in his [Tedx Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9EuJ9QlikY) from last year. That is until he picked up the lease on a 200-year-old stone fruit orchard in Geneva, N.Y. The orchard was one of the last growers of stone fruit trees in New York State, and it became a great opportunity for Mr. Van Aken to preserve a wide variety of ancient and lesser known species of fruit trees" **[Read more here](http://observer.com/2015/07/artist-made-a-frankentree-that-bears-40-different-fruits/)** Related News & Press Jul 30, 2017 [ ![Reusable Universes Progress64 2017 06 22](/assets/exhibition_images/Huang/ReusableUniverses_Progress64_2017-06-22.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-huang-artnet-news) Jul 30, 2017 ArtNet News [Shih Chieh Huang](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/shih-chieh-huang) [Shih Chieh Huang on Using New Technology to Bring Trash to Life](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-huang-artnet-news) Jan 13, 2015 [ ![Fantasia](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken/Fantasia.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-smithsonian) Jan 13, 2015 The Smithsonian [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [A Tree Grows 40 Different Types of Fruit](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-smithsonian) Apr 27, 2017 [ ![Van Aken Tree Of 40 Fruit](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken/Van-Aken-Tree-of-40-Fruit.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-van-aken-observer-dispatch) Apr 27, 2017 The Observer-Dispatch [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [A Tree Grows in Utica - with 40 Different Fruits](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-van-aken-observer-dispatch) Jul 23, 2014 [ ![Early Gold Plum](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken/Early-Gold-Plum.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-van-aken-huffington-post) Jul 23, 2014 Huffington Post [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [Tree Grows 40 Different Types Of Fruit, Probably From The Future](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-van-aken-huffington-post) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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