April Gornik

April Gornik

Spinning Sky 2005

Oil on Linen 25" x 30.5"

April Gornik lives and works in New York City and in North Haven, Long Island, NY. She has work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, the Museum of Modern Art NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Museum, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Modern Art Museum of Art Fort Worth, the Orlando Museum of Art, and other major public and private collections. She has shown extensively in the United States and abroad. Aprils most recent one-person show in New York was at the Danese Gallery in Chelsea. She will be representing the gallery at the ADA Armory show in February 2010.

Michael Raedecker

Michael Raedecker

Scene 1997

Acrylic and Thread on Linen

50 x 70 cm

As the sun sets, a shadow of a tree in the front yard cascades along the siding of a ranch house in what appears to be a quiet suburban neighborhood. In "Scene", Michael Raedecker renders the house by using simple shape that follows the roofline, barely indicating when the sky begins or when the grass starts to slope. More importantly, the picture's hyper focus is on what lies behind the sliding glass doors. The blackened interior creates a void of isolated darkness. Through Michael's adept less is more execution the picture's simplicity is its structure. The monotone coloration plants his imagery solidly in the ground. The question that lurks is what is more compelling, the void itself, or the fact that the void makes the viewer becomes the voyeur.