Nationality American Name April Gornik | Role Artist | |
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Born April 20, 1953 ( 1953-04-20 ) Cleveland, Ohio Artwork Blue Moonlight, Sun, Storm, Cloud, Storm and Fires Education Cleveland Institute of Art, NSCAD University |
Artist april gornik
April Gornik (born 1953, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American artist who paints American landscapes. Her realist yet dreamlike paintings and drawings embody oppositions and speak to America's historically conflicted relationship with nature. While she doesn't categorize herself as an environmental artist, she is a passionate supporter of environmental causes and has said, "I have no problem with people reading an ecological message into my work." Her husband is painter Eric Fischl. Art dealer Ed Thorp hosted her first solo exhibition in 1981, after having caught sight of her paintings while viewing Fischl's work. She is influenced by the feminist consciousness-raising of the late 20th century and, in speaking about female artists who have worked in the shadows of better known male artists, including Elaine de Kooning and Lee Krasner, she has said, "It's a problem. Women artists still receive lower prices for their art and remain less shown than their male counterparts."
Contents
- Artist april gornik
- Danese corey april gornik
- One person exhibitions
- Selected group exhibitions
- Public collections
- References

Among the public collections in America and Canada that include Gornik's paintings, her Virga (1992) and Storm and Fires (1990) are held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection.

Gornik has received several awards: the Neuberger Museum of Art Annual Honoree (2004), the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Honoree by the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts (2003), and the Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS from the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

In 2007, the Smithsonian Art Collectors Program commissioned Gornik to produce a print to benefit the educational and cultural programs of the Smithsonian Associates in 2007. The lithograph, entitled Blue Moonlight hangs in the ongoing exhibition Graphic Eloquence in the S. Dillon Ripley Center in the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

Danese corey april gornik
One person exhibitions
Gornik's work has been showcased in numerous one person exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world.
2014
Danese/Corey, New York, NY2013
Storm: Paintings by April Gornik, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio2012
Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada2011
Danese, New York, NY2010
The Art Show, ADAA Danese Booth, New York, NY2009
The Luminous Landscapes of April Gornik, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY2008
Danese, New York, NY2006
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH2005
Danese, New York, NYArt Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, CanadaSheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE2004
April Gornik: Painting and Drawings, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (exhibition traveled to Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH)2003
Danese Gallery, New York, NY2002
Pace Prints, New York, NYHuntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV2001
Danese, New York, NY2000
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1999
Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NYHarley Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO1998
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PAMuseum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA1997
Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX1996
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1995
Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California1994
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NYGuild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NYOffshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY1993
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CAMary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY1992
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1990
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1988
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CAThe Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada.1987
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1986
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1985
The Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, CanadaGalerie Springer, Berlin, West Germany1984
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NYTexas Gallery, Houston, TX1983
The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OHEdward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY1982
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NYUniversity of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, CO1981
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NYSelected group exhibitions
Gornik's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world.
2014
"The Big Egg Hunt", New York, NY, city-wide display sponsored by Fabergé, April 20142013
"Charcoal!" Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY"To be a Lady: an international celebration of women in the arts", Sundarm Tagore Gallery, Singapore"Common Denominator", The Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT"Woods, Lovely, Dark, and Deep", DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY"April Gornik, Spencer Tunick, Alexis Rockman in "The Beacon," Salomon Contemporary, New York,NY.
2012
"Do Not Destroy Trees, Art, And Jewish Thought", The Dorothy Saxe Invitational, The ContemporaryJewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2011
"Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection", Fisher Landau Center for Art, LIC,NY
"Works on Paper II", Danese, New York, NY"Value of Water", curated by Fredericka Foster, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY"Delinear", Barbara Edwards Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada."Joe Fig: Inside the Painter’s Studio", Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA."In the Presence of Light", Danese Gallery, New York, NY2010
"Dedication", Charles P. Sifton Gallery, Brooklyn, NY"The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression", SOLO :Impression, New York, NY"Works on Paper", Danese, New York, NY2009
"The Tree", James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China"The Print Club of New York: Seventeen Years of :Commissioned Prints", The National Arts Club, NewYork, NY"American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art :Museum", Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,NYForces of Nature, Danese, New York, NYMixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End, :Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYThen & Now: Contemporary Artists Revisit the Past, The :Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NYAmerican Academy Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, : :The American Academy of Arts and Letters,New York, NYLandscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, :Southampton, NY2008
From Here to the Horizon: American Landscape Prints :from :Whistler to Celmins, Jane VoorheesZimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJInspired by the Light: Landscapes by East Maters: Jane :Freilicher, April Gornik and Jane Wilson", Guild Hall, East :Hampton, NY2007
Collector’s Choice III, Audacity in Art: Selected Works :from Central Florida Collections, OrlandoMuseum of Art, Orlando, FLMonoprints, Pace Prints, New :York, NYPaper Trails: A Century of Women’s Prints, Drawings, and :Photographs, Herbert F JohnsonMuseum of Art, Ithaca, NYPicturing Long Island: Abstract, Figurative, and :Historical, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY2006
Five Landscape Painters, The University of Maine, Orono, :MaineNew Old Masters, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Montecito, CATapestries, National Museum of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland2005
Works on Paper, Danese, New York, NYLandscapes and Cityscapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York, :NYDrawn to Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, :OHThe 237th Summer Exhibition, 2005, Royal Academy, London, EnglandArtists and Nature on Eastern Long Island:1940s to the :Present, Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton,NYContemporary Woodblock Prints, Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, :Osaka, Japan2004
A Celebration of the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts, Guild :Hall Museum, East Hampton, NYNorth Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYTemporalscape, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CAImages of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx,NYfrom the Paris Review, Guild Hall Museum, Southampton, NY2003
Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Heckscher Museum ofArt, Huntington, NY (exhibition traveled: Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University,University Park, PA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Frances Lehman Loeb ArtCenter, Poughkeepsie, NY; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND2002
Northern Light, Danese, New York, NYThe Belles of Amherst, Mead Art Museum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MADarkness and Brightness, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY2001
Space: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, MACurious Terrain, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NYUtopia 3, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, ILFollies: Fantasy in the Landscape, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYSummer Group Exhibition, Danese, New York, NYInaugural Exhibition, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CAThe Private Collection of Steve Martin, Bellagio Gallery, Los Vegas, NVPeaks, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NYStormy Weather, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD2000
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NYArt of the 80s, Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NYGroup Landscape Exhibition, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WAWorks on Paper 2000, Residence of the American Ambassador of The Slovak Republic, Bratislava,The Slovak RepublicThe Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, Samuel P. HarnMuseum of Art, Gainesville, FL1999
Water: A Contemporary American View, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston SC (exhibition traveled:Mobil Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI)Why Draw a Landscape? Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA (exhibition traveled: KarenMcCready Gallery, New York, NY)A Place in the Sun, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MDAs Far as the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA1998
Encyclopedia, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TXGifts for a New Century, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYAfter Nature, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MANew Releases: April Gornik, Tom Marioni, Pat Steir, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CACityscape/Landscape, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY80s Artists Then and Now, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York, NYSelections from the Collection: Guild Hall Museum, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NYCleveland Collects, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHThe Joe Wilfer Show: Collaborations in Paper and Printmaking, Plattsburgh Art Museum,Plattsburgh, NYThe Centennial Open, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYNature, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NCPrints by Painters, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaThe Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of His Subjects, Dorfman Projects, NewYork, NYMovements of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NYLandscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA1997
In Plain Sight, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale, NYA Reversal of Scale, Turner and Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TXWoodwork, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NYEight From Ohio: In and Out of Bounds, Hammond Gallery, Lancaster, OH1996
Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Paintings in the Nineties, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,Gainesville, FL20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Chanin Freedman, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Centerfor the Arts, Reading, PAWater, James Graham & Sons, New York, NYMaster Workshop Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery at Southampton College, Southampton, NY1995
Re-Presenting Representation II, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NYElementum, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NYRevisiting Landscape, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA100 Personal Heroes Part 2, Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsAmerican Art Today: Night Paintings, Florida International University, Miami, FL1994
Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NYChanging Views, Feigen Inc., Chicago, ILTimely and Timeless, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CTLandscape Not Landscape, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FLMountains of the Mind: American Mountain Landscape Painting from 1850 to the Present, AspenArt Museum, Aspen, CO1993
Living With Art: The Collection of Ellyn and Saul Dennison, The Morristown Museum, Morristown, NJYears, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OHLandscape as Metaphor, Whitney Museum, Fitchburg, CT1992
Four Friends, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (exhibition traveled: RayburnFoundation, New York, NY; Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK)Selective Vision, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA1991
Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYPresswork: Art of Women Printmakers, The National Museum of Women, Washington, DCLandscapes, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NYLandscape Painting, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY1990
Terra Incognita, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIContemporary American Artists, Residence of the Ambassador, Mexico City, Mexico,The (Un)Making of Nature, Whitney Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY and FairfieldCounty, CTRomance & Irony in Recent American Art, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AustraliaHarmony & Discord: American Landscape Today, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VADidier Nolet: Dreams of a Man Awake, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL1989
10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet & American Painters, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX(exhibition traveled: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright Knox ArtGallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; The Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington DC; Artist's Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, USSR; Central Artists'Hall, Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR)1989
Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NYPainting Horizons: Jane Freilicher, Albert York, April Gornik, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,NYA Decade of Drawings: 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CAA Certain Slant of Light: The Contemporary American Landscape, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton,OHThe 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCNocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art at the EquitableCenter, New York, NYArt of the '80s from the Chemical Bank Collection, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJAmerican Art Today: Contemporary Landscape, The Art Museum at Florida International University,Miami, FL1988
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RIDrawing on the East End, 1940-1988, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NYChanging Perspectives in Contemporary Representations, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NYRealism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection, National Academy of Design, NewYork, NY (exhibition traveled: : Smith College, Northampton, MA; The Arkansas Arts Center, LittleRock, AK; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH)1987
Art of the Twentieth Century, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NHThe New Romantic Landscape, The Whitney Museum of American Art Fairfield County, Stamford,CT1976-1986: Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum,Wellesley, MABoundless Realism: Contemporary Landscape Painting in the West, The Rockwell Museum,Corning, NY1986
New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum,Phoenix, AZA Contemporary View of Nature, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CTArt on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NCSpectrum, Natural Settings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DCStill Life/Life Still, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA24th National Print Exhibition, “Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum,Brooklyn, NYLandscape in the Age of Anxiety, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY1984
American Painting 1975-1985: Selections from the Collection of Aron and Phyllis Katz, The AspenArt Museum, Aspen, CONight Lights, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OHCurrents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MASources of Light, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WAVenice Biennale, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy (exhibition traveled: Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid,Spain; Athens, Greece; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Budapest, Hungary)A Celebration of American Women Artists, Part II: The Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, NewYork, NYThe Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon, New York, NYA Tribute to James and Mari Michener, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Public collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Collection of ART in Embassies, US Chancery in Beijing, China Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY Castellani Museum of Art, Niagara, 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. Cramer Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 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, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC 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, Moscow, Russia University Art Museum, C.S.U., Long Beach, CA University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY William & Florence Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL