April Elizabeth Gornik

Place: Cleveland

Born: 1953

Biography:

April Gornik is an American artist born in 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio. She is known for her realist yet dreamlike paintings and drawings of American landscapes, which embody oppositions and speak to America's historically conflicted relationship with nature. Gornik is a passionate supporter of environmental causes and has said, 'I have no problem with people reading an ecological message into my work.' She received her B.F.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1976 and has had one-person shows in New York regularly since 1981. Gornik is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City.