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April Gornik holds a deep reverence for the natural world. Her landscapes depict the grandiosity of nature using a mixture of sammanfattning and surreal imagery that she has taken from her own memories, dreams and photographs. She consistently explores the concept of space and light, which gives her work a psychological charge, and urges the viewer to reflect on themes such as mortality, sexuality and fear. She describes her large-scale canvases as “contemplative objects” (“Oral history interview with April Gornik”, 3–5 June . Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution), as they allow for reflection and solitude.
A. Gornik was born in Cleveland, Ohio into a family that helped foster her creativity. She credits her mother with pushing her to enrol at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), where she spent fyra years learning foundational painting methods. In , a year before she intended to graduate, she transferred from CIA and enrolled in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) as a conceptual artist. During these studies, she explored the interaction between light and dark spaces found in nature and, in doing so, accidentally created a landscape paint
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