Artist | April Gornik (*1953)
https://www.artist-info.com/artist/April-Gornik
Biography
Biography
Born in April 20, 1953, in Cleveland, Ohio
Lives in New York, NY
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, B.F.A., 1976
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2014 Danese/Corey, New York 2013 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio 2012 Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada 2011 Danese Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY 2008 Danese Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH 2005 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada 2005 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2005 Danese Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY 2003 Danese Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV 2001 Danese Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY 1999 Harley Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 1998 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1998 Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1997 Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX 1996 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1994 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY 1994 Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY 1993 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 1993 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1988 University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1988 The Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 1987 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1985 The Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1985 Galerie Springer, Berlin, West Germany 1984 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1984 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 1983 The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 1983 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1982 University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, CO 1981 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions (selection)
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2013 Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY. “The Beacon” RH Gallery, New York, NY. “A Discourse on Plants” 2011 Barbara Edwards Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada. “Bon a Tirer” Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, NY. “The Value of Water” Danese Gallery, New York, NY. "Works on Paper"' Barbara Edwards Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada. “Delinear” Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. “Joe Fig: Inside the Painter's Studio” Danese Gallery, New York, NY. "In the Presence of Light"' 2010 Danese Gallery, New York, NY. "Works on Paper"' Charles P. Sifton Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. “Gallery Dedication Group Show” 2009 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. "Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts" The National Arts Club, New York, NY. “The Print Club of New York: Seventeen Years of Commissioned Prints” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. "Mixed Greens" Arkell Museum, Canajahorie, NY. "Then & Now: Contemporary Artists Revisit the Past" Danese Gallery, New York, NY. "Forces of Nature" James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China. “The Tree” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. "American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum" 2008 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY. “Inspired by the Light: Landscapes by East End Masters” Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ. "From Here to the Horizon: American Landscape Prints from Whistler to Celmins" 2007 Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL. “Collector's Choice: Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections” Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY. “Paper Trails: A Century of Women’s Prints, Drawings, and Photographs” Pace Prints, NY, NY. "Monoprints" Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. "Picturing Long Island" 2006 National Museum of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland. "New Old Masters" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Montecito, CA. "Tapestries" 2005 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY. "Landscapes and Cityscapes" Royal Academy, London, England. “The 237th Summer Exhibition, 2005” Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY. “Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present”” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan. "Contemporary Woodblock Prints" Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. "Drawn to Cleveland" 2004 Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, "Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape" Guild Hall Museum, Southampton, NY. "A Celebration of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Honorees in the Visual Arts" Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. "North Fork/South Fork" Guild Hall Museum, Southampton, NY. "Art from the Paris Review" Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. “Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN. “Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. “Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. “Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. “temporalscape” 2003 Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, “Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” 2002 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, "Curious Terrain" Danese Gallery, New York, NY, "Northern Light" Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY, "Darkness and Brightness" 2001 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Inaugural Exhibition" Bellagio Gallery, Los Vegas, NV, "The Private Collection of Steve Martin" Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, "Follies" Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY, "peaks" Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD. "Stormy Weather" 2000 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, "Drawings 2000" Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY, "Art of the 80s" Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle WA, "Group Landscape Exhibition" Residence of the American Ambassador of The Slovak Republic, Bratislava, The Slovak Republic, "Works on Paper 2000" Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, "The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum" Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL. "water: A Contemporary American View", travelling to: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Public Collections
Public Collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY Castellani Museum of Art, Niagra, NY Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH City College of New York, New York, NY Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Douglas S. Cranmer Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ The Jewish Museum, New York City, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, NY National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Snite Museum, Notre Dame, IN Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA United States Embassy, Beijing, China United States Embassy, Moscow, Russia University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA University Art Museum, C.S.U., Long Beach, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, NY William & Florence Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL
About the work (english)
About the work (english)
I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful. -April Gornik
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Exhibition History

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Exhibitions in artist-info | 32 (S 13/ G 19) |
Did show together with - Top 5 of 259 artists (no. of shows) - all shows - Top 100
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Exhibitions by type | 32: 20 / 7 / 5 / 0 | |||||||||||
Venues by type | 18: 8 / 7 / 3 / 0 | |||||||||||
Curators | 7 | |||||||||||
artist-info records | Jun 1984 - Feb 2021 | |||||||||||
Countries - Top 4 of 4 United States (16) Canada (4) Italy (1) China (1) |
Cities - Top 5 of 12 New York (16) San Francisco (3) Toronto (3) Philadelphia (2) Sag Harbor (1) |
Venues (no. of shows )
Top 5 of 18
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Curators (no. of shows)
Top 5 of 7
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Crown Point Press | G | Jan 2021 - Feb 2021 | San Francisco | (14) | +0 | |
Sag Harbor Whaling Museum | G | May 2014 - Jun 2014 | Sag Harbor | (2) | +0 | |
Rizzie, Dan (Curator) | +0 | |||||
Marcelle, Peter J. (Curator) | +0 | |||||
Danese/Corey | S | Apr 2014 - May 2014 | New York | (127) | +0 | |
The Dayton Art Institute | S | Feb 2013 - May 2013 | Dayton | (13) | +0 | |
Barbara Edwards Contemporary | S | Apr 2012 - Jun 2012 | Toronto, ON | (15) | +0 | |
Barbara Edwards Contemporary | G | Nov 2011 - Jan 2012 | Toronto, ON | (15) | +0 | |
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