Moon Bay (1996)
Oil on linen, 72" x 96"
Titled, dated and signed "Moon Bay / 1996 / April Gornik" verso on canvas.
This work is recorded and reproduced on the Artist's website.
Provenance: Private collection, Norwood, NJ.
Edward Snider (1933-2016), Philadelphia, PA & Montecito, CA
Purchased from the Estate of Edward Snider
Exhibited: 1996 "April Gornik Solo Exhibition" at Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (label verso)
1998 "April Gornik: Embodied Landscapes" at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts & Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts
2001 Danese Gallery, New York, NY (label verso)
2005 "April Gornik Paintings and Drawings" traveling exhibition, organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Verso
Titled, dated and signed "Moon Bay 1996 April Gornik" verso.
Danese Label Verso
Edward Thorp Gallery Label Verso
"I’ve always wanted to be able feel the paintings viscerally, experientially, physically – to have a physical relationship with them. The time I first started doing them it had a lot to do with the scale - feeling that you could go into them. Not mural size, where they would extend past your peripheral vision; and not window size where you’d be looking into them. More like the size of an adult human body, where you’d feel yourself – [the paintings] as a reflection of you in some way. That’s also why there are no people in them because I want to be able to go into them and experience them by myself. I don’t want there to be an emotional mediation of a person’s body language or an expression or a gesture or anything like that in the paintings."
– April Gornik
In her mid-career retrospective exhibition Gornik reflects on what her landscape paintings have come to mean to her.
