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APRIL GORNIK
Light Bending the World, 2022
Oil on linen
72 x 122 inches
182.9 x 309.9 cm
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"Light Bending the World (2022) features a marshy inlet in the gloaming. A gauzy mauve and ochre sky is mirrored in a crescent-shaped basin to form an elliptical image. Frothy clouds activate the scene from above and, in their reflection, from below. The horizon tapers to a narrow suggestion of a faraway landform; it’s a delicate strip that reads almost like a seam, where the universe might fold in half."
- Annie Godfrey Larmon in "In the Distance: April Gornik's Recent Landscapes"
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APRIL GORNIKThe Falcon's Eye, 2022Oil on linen72 x 96 inches
182.9 x 243.8 cm -
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APRIL GORNIKStudy for Storm Suspended by Light, 2022Oil on canvas24 x 24.5 inches
61 x 62.2 cm -
APRIL GORNIKStorm Suspended by Light, 2022Oil on linen78 x 104 inches
198.1 x 264.2 cm -
APRIL GORNIK
The Other Side II, 2022
Oil on linen
72 x 108 inches
182.9 x 274.3 cm
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APRIL GORNIKJust Before I Left the Ground, 2023Oil on linen74 x 100 inches
188 x 254 cm"We might think of Gornik’s paintings, then, as images of the landscape as it is internalized. When she paints the glint of sun on water, she translates a feeling stored in memory about the sun hitting water, about being within and of the environment."
- Annie Godfrey Larmon in "In the Distance: April Gornik's Recent Landscapes"
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APRIL GORNIKThe Unbroken World, 2023Oil on linen70 x 115 inches
177.8 x 292.1 cm -
April Gornik in her studio, Sag Harbor, NY.
April Gornik (b. 1953 in Cleveland, OH) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. Since then, Gornik has gone on to become one of the foremost figures of contemporary American landscape painting, having exhibited at the 1989 Whitney Biennial and both the 41st and 56th editions of the Venice Biennale. In 2021, she cofounded The Church, an innovative artist residency and exhibition space in Sag Harbor, NY.
Gornik has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Danese/Corey Gallery, New York, NY; Pace Prints, New York, NY; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Canada; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Gornik’s work may be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.
The artist lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY.
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APRIL GORNIKLight Bending the World, 2022Oil on linen72 x 122 inches
182.9 x 309.9 cm -
APRIL GORNIKLight Held by Trees, 2022Oil on linen27 x 25 inches
68.6 x 63.5 cm -
APRIL GORNIKThe Falcon's Eye, 2022Oil on linen72 x 96 inches
182.9 x 243.8 cm -
APRIL GORNIKStudy for Storm Suspended by Light, 2022Oil on canvas24 x 24.5 inches
61 x 62.2 cm
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APRIL GORNIKStorm Suspended by Light, 2022Oil on linen78 x 104 inches
198.1 x 264.2 cm -
APRIL GORNIKThe Other Side II, 2022Oil on linen72 x 108 inches
182.9 x 274.3 cm -
APRIL GORNIKJust Before I Left the Ground, 2023Oil on linen74 x 100 inches
188 x 254 cm -
APRIL GORNIKThe Unbroken World, 2023Oil on linen70 x 115 inches
177.8 x 292.1 cm
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