{"id":272,"date":"2016-12-29T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/?page_id=272"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T03:12:23","slug":"april-gornik-1998-1999","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/april-gornik-1998-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"April Gornik, 1998-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art Department Technical Assistant Mark Zunino (left) assists Julia D\u2019Amario pulling a proof for April Gornik as she and students observe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Julia (left) and April study the first completed proof of the color etching.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April Gornik<\/strong>
\nJulia D\u2019Amario, printer
\n1998-1999<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Workshop: March 2-3, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n

April Gornik received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1976. She is represented in many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art; the National Museum of American Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She has had several major solo exhibitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the 1980s Gornik emerged as a leading painter in New York, along with other artists working in what was dubbed the \u201cNew Romantic\u201d style. Inspired by the Luminist painters of the late nineteenth century, Gornik\u2019s bucolic yet often dramatic images are soft-focused depictions of unpopulated landscapes that sparkle with texture and light. Using a subdued color palette, Gornik seeks to capture the sensual essence of her subject, creating images that are at once inviting and vaguely threatening, combining the contradictory qualities of the sublime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using a digital print of one of her paintings as a guide, Gornik and printer Julia D\u2019Amario, with whom she had worked previously at Pace Editions, created a large three-color etching using a white-ground resist and spitbite etching that fully captured Gornik\u2019s atmospheric painting style.<\/span><\/p>\n

April Gornik. American, 1953 \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

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