World of Light (for GMH), 2026, Oil on linen,
75 1/4 x 94 inches, 191.8 x 243.8 cm, MMG#38170
Schiele Winter Light, 2025, Oil on linen,
22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, MMG#37874
Shredding Light, 2025, Oil on linen,
26 x 35 inches, 66 x 88.9 cm, MMG#37876
The Return, 2025, Oil on linen,
28 x 32 inches, 71.1 x 81.3 cm, MMG#38169
Spirit Clouds, 2024, Oil on linen,
74 x 103 inches, 188 x 261.6 cm, MMG#38172
White Sky 1, 2024, Oil on linen,
24 x 36 inches, 61 x 91.4 cm, MMG#37878
The Light of World Rising, 2024, Oil on linen, 75 x 95 inches, 190.5 x 241.3 cm, MMG#37299
The Unbroken World, 2023, Oil on linen, 70 x 115 inches, 177.8 x 292.1 cm, MMG#35701
Light Bending the World, 2022, Oil on linen, 72 x 122 inches, 182.9 x 309.9 cm, MMG#34889
Study for Storm Suspended by Light, 2022, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 1/2 inches, 61 x 62.2 cm, MMG#34339
The Other Side II, 2022, Oil on linen, 72 x 108 inches, 182.9 x 274.3 cm, MMG#18829
Blue Horizon, 2020, Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, 61 x 81.3 cm, MMG#32157
Bending Light, 2019, Oil on linen, 28 1/4 x 31 inches, 71.8 x 78.7 cm, MMG#31880
Field, 2019, Oil on linen, 75 x 100 inches, 190.5 x 254 cm, MMG#31250
Gloria Mundi, 2019, Charcoal on paper, 37 1/2 x 50 inches, 95.3 x 127 cm, MMG#31977
Light Wheel, 2019, Oil on linen, 80 1/2 x 62 inches, 204.5 x 157.5 cm, MMG#31067
Moonlight, 2019, Oil on linen, 65 x 91 inches, 165.1 x 231.1 cm, MMG#31793
Sea of Light and Dark, 2019, Oil on linen, 75 x 105 inches, 190.5 x 266.7 cm, MMG#31794
Storm Sweep, 2019, Oil on linen, 64 x 80 inches, 162.6 x 203.2 cm, MMG#31796
Tropical Drift, 2019, Oil on linen, 75 x 100 inches, 190.5 x 254 cm, MMG#31795
Horizon Bent By Light, 2018, Charcoal and pastel on paper, 44 1/8 x 37 7/8 inches, 112.1 x 96.2 cm, MMG#30804
Slow Time, 2018, Oil on linen, 32 x 24 inches, 81.3 x 61 cm, MMG#30803
Sunset, 2018, Oil on linen, 72 x 108 inches, 182.9 x 274.3 cm, MMG#31251
Traveling Shadowed Light, 2018, Charcoal on paper, 41 3/4 x 46 inches, 106 x 116.8 cm, MMG#30805
Weighing the Ocean, 2018, Charcoal on paper, 37 1/2 x 50 inches, 95.3 x 127 cm, MMG#30827
Creation Storm, 2017, Oil on linen, 32 x 24 inches, 81.3 x 61 cm, MMG#30412
Moon Behind Clouds, 2017, Oil on linen, 23 x 32 inches, 58.4 x 81.3 cm, MMG#31878
Big Storm Light, 2016, Oil on linen, 70 x 77 inches, 177.8 x 195.6 cm, MMG#30409
Spring Light and Still Water, 2016, Oil on linen, 72 x 108 inches, 182.9 x 274.3 cm, MMG#30407
Cloud Bringing Night, 2015, Oil on linen,72 x 108 inches,182.9 x 274.3 cm, MMG#30406
Fall Forest Light, 2015, Oil on linen,21 x 26 inches, 53.3 x 66 cm, MMG#30411
Storm, Light, Ocean, 2014, Oil on linen, 74 x 98.5 inches, 188 x 250.2 cm, MMG#30408
The Horizon, 2008, Oil on linen, 76 x 76.25 inches, 193 x 193.7 cm, MMG#30410
April Gornik in her studio, Sag Harbor, NY, 2025.
April Gornik (b. 1953 in Cleveland, OH) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. Since then, Gornik has gone on to become one of the foremost figures of contemporary American landscape painting, having exhibited at the 1989 Whitney Biennial and both the 41st and 56th editions of the Venice Biennale. In 2021, she cofounded The Church, an innovative artist residency and exhibition space in Sag Harbor, NY.
Gornik has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Canada; Danese/Corey Gallery, New York, NY; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Pace Prints, New York, NY; and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Gornik’s work may be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.
The artist lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY.
Aprik Gornik and her husband Eric Fischl are featured in Cultured Magazine.
Inka Essenhigh and April Gornik are included in the exhibition "Empire of Water" at The Church in Sag Harbor, NY.
April Gornik interviewed by Alex Zoppa and Robyn Rosenfeld on the podcast ARTLAWS.
Building a New Sanctuary on Long Island for Culture Lovers
In Sag Harbor, April Gornik and Eric Fischl are converting a former church into a community arts center.
We are delighted to share two additional reviews of April Gornik's current solo exhibition in Painters on Painting and Chelsea News.
April Gornik’s Sunset, 2018—one among the twelve new landscape paintings in her current exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery—appears as though it might be plugged into an electrical socket. Along the horizon, halfway between a malevolent sky and an inky sea, a stripe of brilliant incandescence worthy of Vermeer lights up storm clouds, choppy waters, and, one would imagine, the entire gallery if it were darkened. Symbolism, Romanticism, Luminism, and feminism have all been cited in regard to Gornik’s work. Indeed, her reimagined versions of natural phenomena are as rich a field for interpretation as the writings of Herman Melville or Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl team up with architect Lee Skolnick to create an incubator for artists in Sag Harbor.
Artist Eric Fischl is standing under the eaves of Sag Harbor’s deconsecrated First Methodist Church, currently a construction site he visits almost daily. More than a year ago, Fischl and his wife, artist April Gornik, purchased the building to return it to its original intent as a community gathering place.
Featuring works by gallery artists Inka Essenhigh, April Gornik, Amy Bennett, and Isca Greenfield-Sanders, new book Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism presents a global survey of landscape painting in the 21st century. Including work by more than 80 outstanding artists, the book highlights the thriving genre of landscape painting in the contemporary world, while also reflecting upon its origins.
Nassau County Museum of Art is pleased to present group exhibition That 80s Show, curated by Eric Fischl.
Opening Saturday, 16 March, 2019.
Featuring works by Fischl, April Gornik, Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Ross Bleckner, Bryan Hunt, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Jenny Holzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Lemieux, Charlie Clough, Tseng Kwong Chi, Jonathan Lasker and others.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is pleased to announce its representation of April Gornik.
April Gornik’s masterfully rendered paintings depict radiant and atmospheric scenes of the land, sea, and sky. Working in oil paint, Gornik captures the subtle nature of light with its capacity to simultaneously illuminate and obscure. By combining the literal with the imagined, her paintings possess an intimate, ethereal quality that invites personal contemplation by the viewer. As Gornik expresses, “I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.”
