#April Gornik

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April Gornik (American, 1953), Crossing, 1984. Charcoal and pastel on paper, sheet: 38 x 49 1/2 in.

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April Gornik (American, b. 1953)

Big Storm Light, 2016

Oil on linen

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Palatine Shade (2004). April Gornik.

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April Gornik, Virga, 1992, oil on linen, 90 x 76 in. (228.6 x 193.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James F. Dicke Family, 2013.88.4, © 1992, April Gornik April Gornik (#bornonthisday 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. via Wikipedia

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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.”

APRIL GORNIK "Bending Light" 2019 Oil on linen 28 1/4 x 31 in 71.8 x 78.7 cm 

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April Gornik, Sunset

[the-paintrist]

List of women paintrist

This is a project in progress.

Mary Beale (1633-1699), UK

Pauline Auzou (1775–1835), France

Anna Barbara Bansi (1777-1863), France

Constance Mayer (1777-1821), France

Louise-Adéone Drölling (1797-1836), France

Sarah Henrietta Purser (1848-1943), Ireland

Ellen Favorin (1853-1919), Finland

Anna Maria Gardell-Ericson(1853-1939), Sweden

Anna Bilińska(1854-1893), Poland

Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927), Germany

Jenny Zillhardt(1857-1939), France

Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884), Russia

Emmeline Deane (1858–1944), UK

Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938), Austria

Maria Gażycz (1860-1935), Poland

Jacqueline Marval (1866-1932), France

Georgette Agutte (1867-1922), France

Lillian Mathilde Genth (1876–1953), USA

Beryl Fowler (1881-1963), UK

Cecil Jay (1883–1954), UK/USA

Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956), UK

Annie Ovenden (1945-present), UK

April Gornik (1953, present), USA

This is a list in progress

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☝️ when the Astro-Inertial Navigation System (ANS) fails on a training mission and they accidentally fly into Mexican airspace

5 February 1968: Lockheed ordered to destroy A-12, YF-12, and SR-71 tooling

8 March 1968: First SR-71A (AF Ser. No. 61-7978) arrives at Kadena AB, Okinawa to replace A-12s

21 March 1968: First SR-71 (AF Ser. No. 61-7976) operational mission flown from Kadena AB over Vietnam

29 May 1968: CMSgt Bill Gornik begins the tie-cutting tradition of Habu crews' neckties

13 December 1969: Two SR-71s deployed to Taiwan.

1970s–1980s

3 December 1975: First flight of SR-71A (AF Ser. No. 61-7959) in "big tail" configuration

20 April 1976: TDY operations started at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom with SR-71A, AF Ser. No. 61-7972

27–28 July 1976: SR-71A sets speed and altitude records (altitude in horizontal flight: 85,068.997 ft (25,929.030 m) and speed over a straight course: 2,193.167 miles per hour (3,529.560 km/h))

August 1980: Honeywell starts conversion of AFICS to DAFICS

15 January 1982: SR-71B, AF Ser. No. 61-7956, flies its 1,000th sortie

21 April 1989: SR-71, AF Ser. No. 61-7974, is lost due to an engine explosion after taking off from Kadena AB, the last Blackbird to be lost

22 November 1989: USAF SR-71 program officially terminated

Where are the SR 71 today? 61-7950 SR-71A Lost, 10 January 1967

61-7951 SR-71A Pima Air & Space Museum (adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base), Tucson, Arizona. Loaned to NASA as "YF-12C #06937".

61-7952 SR-71A Lost in Mach 3 mid-air breakup near Tucumcari, New Mexico, 25 January 1966

61-7953 SR-71A Lost, 18 December 1969

61-7954 SR-71A Lost, 11 April 1969

61-7955 SR-71A Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, California

61-7956 SR-71B Air Zoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan (ex-NASA831)

61-7957 SR-71B Lost, 11 January 1968

61-7958 SR-71A Museum of Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia

61-7959 SR-71A Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

61-7960 SR-71A Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base, Atwater, California

61-7961 SR-71A Cosmosphere, Hutchinson, Kansas

61-7962 SR-71A American Air Museum in Britain, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England

61-7963 SR-71A Beale Air Force Base, Marysville, California

61-7964 SR-71A Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

61-7965 SR-71A Lost, 25 October 1967

61-7966 SR-71A Lost, 13 April 1967

61-7967 SR-71A Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, Louisiana

61-7968 SR-71A Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

61-7969 SR-71A Lost, 10 May 1970

61-7970 SR-71A Lost, 17 June 1970

61-7971 SR-71A Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon

61-7972 SR-71A Smithsonian Institution Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia

61-7973 SR-71A Blackbird Airpark, Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California

61-7974 SR-71A Lost, 21 April 1989

61-7975 SR-71A March Field Air Museum, March Air Reserve Base (former March AFB), Riverside, California

61-7976 SR-71A National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio,

61-7977 SR-71A Lost, 10 October 1968. Cockpit section survived and located at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

61-7978 SR-71A Nicknamed "Rapid Rabbit" and wearing a Playboy bunny image as tail art. (wearing a "black bunny" logo on its tail). Lost, 20 July 1972[4]

61-7979 SR-71A Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

61-7980 SR-71A Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California

61-7981 SR-71C Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah (formerly YF-12A 60-6934)

How many SR 71 have you seen? Linda Sheffield Miller

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Artist who explore the concept of “The Stranger”

Eric Fischl (1948- Present)

Eric Fischl is an American artist specialising in painting and sculpture. He received a B.F.A (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from the California institute of the Arts and went on to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Where he met his wife April Gornik who is also a painter. Fischl draws inspiration from his upbringing of county club culture and exploring the relationship between lived experiences and cannot be mentioned. During his first solo exhibition he gained attention for depicting the dark side of ordinary American life.      

Tacita Dean      (1965-present)

Tacita Dean is a British artist based in Berlin Germany and Los Angeles California. Her work is mainly focused on conceptual film and photography as well as analog drawing exploring the concept of place and time. Dean graduated from Falmouth University 1988 and went on to gain an MA from

 the Slate School of Fine Art in 1992. She has stated she is inspired my many writers and artists like Marcel Broodthaers and Robert Smithson among others. Tacita Dean’s work is interested in memories and how they relate to loss and time. She uses 16mm and 35mm film to capture a variety of complex narratives and themes.  In her early work she used chalk on blackboard depicting ghost like ships and sea landscapes. She progressed to film and 2011 was asked to fill the turbine hall in Tate Modern using 35mm  film and edited herself. She celebrated this film medium as signified its loss to to digital world. Named “Film” was shown on an 11 metre screen

 

She was also responsible for set design and costumes with the Royal ballet. 

Her exhibition in 2023 in Paris displayed photograph taken in Japan in 2022. She aimed to show the seasons in Japan. 

This shows a large photograph of a Japanese  cherry blossom tree.  Taken in Japan at a historic site in 2022. The trees there are 250 years old 

“Sakura Study”(2022) a photograph print with white pencil. 

Small Sakura Study (2022).  There fragility is demonstrated by the use of supports made of wood. 

“The Wreck of Hope” (2022)

Large scale chalk on blackboard

She uses this thick non fixed medium to demonstrate the fragility of our planet due to climate. 

Film stills from “Paradise”(2021) this  35mm film with vibrant colour.  

She was inspired  from working with a choreographer from a  ballet “ The Dante project” which she designed the set and costumes for. 

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April Gornik (American, 1953), The Delicate Hour (For My Father), 1984. Oil on canvas, 48 1⁄2 x 108 1⁄2 in.

[psikonauti]

April Gornik (American, b. 1953)

Sand, Shadows, Time, 2010

Oil on linen

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Check out April Gornik, Untitled monotype of islands in a bay at dusk (1987), From Alpha 137 Gallery

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April Gornik, Storm and Fires, 1990, charcoal and pastel on paper, sheet: 47 1⁄8x 38 1⁄4 in. (119.7 x 97.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the friends of Philip Desind, 1990.84

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. via Wikipedia

[the-paintrist]

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.”

April Gornik “Blue Horizon“ 2020 Oil on canvas 24x36 in 61 x 81.3 cm.

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Call for Artists- First Street Gallery 2024 National Juried Exhibition

Entries are open for First Street Gallery's 2024 National Juried Exhibition. The exhibition will take place October 30 - November 23, 2024 in the Gallery's exhibition space in the Chelsea Art District in NYC. The Reception is October 31st, 6-8PM. The JUROR: APRIL GORNIK . ENTRY FEE: $40/ 1-3 works, $5 ea. additional work, Max 6 works. (The Gallery does not take a commission on sales in the show) Open to U.S. resident artists 18 yrs. or older. Exception: Artists currently represented by First Street Gallery. ELIGIBLE WORKS: ORIGINAL oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, drawings, prints, photography, mixed media, assemblage and sculpture in any medium. All subjects, styles and genres welcome so long as the medium is eligible. WORK SIZE MAXIMUMS: All Wall-Hung Work - 2D or 3D: No larger than 36"H x 36"W, including frame; No more than 10" deep from wall; 30 lbs. maximum weight. Free-standing or Pedestal Works: Maximum 30" width or depth; NO height limit; maximum footprint: 30:x30"; 50 libs. maximum weight. Entries With Online Entry Form ONLY.

Deadline: August 28, 2024

For more information: https://www.theartlist.com/07082024152209-call-for-artists-first-street-gallery-2024-national-juried-exhibition

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April Gornik (American, 1953), Crossing, 1984. Charcoal and pastel on paper