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April Gornik
1953–

Introduction

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."

Wikidata identifier

Q4782029

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Introduction

Gornik takes the subject matter and style of the American Luminists, but adds strange weather conditions such as cloudbursts and waterspouts.

Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, painter

ULAN identifier

500118770

Names

April Gornik

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