Renowned for her re-invention of landscape, April Gornik’s paintings and drawings border between mimesis and invention. Responding to both observed reality and imaginative perception, she presents a unique interpretation of the psychologically embedded landscape.  

Gornik speaks of an "intimate immensity" that allows the viewer to enter the work and expand or contract within themselves in accordance with the relative vastness of the space. Her work is experiential; to feel the anxious turbulence in the air before a storm, or the solitary calmness of the forest at dusk. 

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1953, Gornik completed her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1976 and currently works and lives in New York City. She has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States including the Edward Thorp Gallery, Danese, Mary Ryan Gallery (New York, NY); Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA); The New Gallery of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, OH) and internationally at The Sable-Castelli Gallery (Toronto, Canada) and Galerie Springer (Berlin, Germany).

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum among others.

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