The New Gotham Ballroom: One night only! June 8th
Join us for our annual spring gala, The New Gotham Ballroom, a pop-up 1930s era night-club at the Stan Mansion with dinner by Chef Jared Wentworth and Longman & Eagle. Tickets on sale now!
the archives
April Childers
March 1 - 25, 2012
"Parakeet", 2011
Navigating a space between the concepts of the visible and invisible, I experiment with
relationships that revolve around human expectancy and animal intuitives. The idea of existing in
such a melancholic emotional state has always been in question for me. I am consistently rolling
around ideas of existence and non-existence, loss and the possibility of it. I have a tendency to
develop unconditional relationships with ideas and objects; this is seen as evidence of a need or
longing for something that is absent. This need or focus is pleasurable and is used as a sort of
non-physical bloodletting. I work to develop my content through awareness of social relations
and choices in materials, adapting a visual overabundance of fallibility, alienation, and artistic
content.
April was born in 1979 in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. She received a BFA from the
University of Tennessee and a MFA from the University of South Florida where she was
awarded the Nancy and William Oliver Fellowship. Her exhibition record includes The Beijing
Natural Culture Center, Beijing P.R. China; Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Paul
Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, Newark, NJ; The Front, New Orleans, LA; Grace Exhibition Space,
Brooklyn, NY and New Capital Projects, Chicago, IL. April currently lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.
There, There: Everything Has Just Been A Lot
threewalls, Friday, March 23, 2012, 6:00 - 8:00pm