Recent Exhibitions and Press:
"Strong Winds Ahead" Francois Ghebaly Los Angeles July 29, 2023-September 9, 2023 Curated by Lekha Jandhyala-Carlos Agredano – Monira Al Qadiri – Farah Al Qasimi – Ragini Bhow – Sayre Gomez – Camille Henrot – Shana Hoehn – iris yirei hu – Rindon Johnson – Maia Ruth Lee – Vijay Masharani – Harold Mendez – Eli Ping – Edgar Ramirez – Molly Segal – Andrew Sendor – April Street –
Gray Wielebinski
"All The Lonely People"Travelling exhibition, Berlin and LAXART Los Angeles-Curated by Nana Bahlmann for Villa Aurora/Thomas Mann House
November 28,, 2020-2021 Kunstmuseum "Art Cabinet Project with Studio K-3 Zurich" Special Event - Artist/Curator Clare Goodwin
July 25, 2020-August 14, 2020 April Street Solo exhibition "Circling the Drain, Works on Paper" at Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects Los Angeles CA. “Circling the Drain” it features 12 watercolors which are related to her recent exhibition at the gallery and translate the artist’s relief-style painting onto a flattened plane. Lines of braids and plump shapes mimic meandering vines and overripe fruit - root vegetables and flowers in vibrant utopian settings appear cracked or bitten. These still-lifes and fanged landscape portals are infused with equal parts dark humor and aesthetic joy. Created over the past several months while in quarantine, this body of work juxtaposes Street’s painterly practice which is influenced by specific art historical contexts with the uncertainty and turbulence of this pandemic.
November 16, 2019 -January 11, 2020 April Street solo exhibition, " The Lady of Shalott" at Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects Los Angeles CA
Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present The Lady of Shalott, April Street's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Comprised of 16 fabric-relief paintings, the works in the exhibition meld landscapes with corporeal elements to create portrait-like vignettes where waterfalls cascade into braids and hair extensions, surreal forms and voluminous lines define space and hyper-sexualized otherworldly elements rise inside and throughout her multi-dimensional surfaces.
Street's paintings are physically topographical, stuffed with fabric, morphing figuration and abstraction into hybrids of body and land. Embracing the material experimentation found in the feminist art practices of the 60s and 70s, Street uses nylon hosiery to push the physical bounds of painting while simultaneously intertwining historical and literary narratives. Street's Lady of Shalott recalls and conflates in imaginative ways the idealized "World Landscapes" of the Flemish Renaissance with the rewrite of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Lady of Shalott," which inspired Pre-Raphaelite painters.
In the poem, Tennyson's Lady is imprisoned on the island of Shalott. Cursed to view the world through a mirror, weaving only what she sees reflected – Lady of Shalott chooses to look out the window at reality, provoked by the beauty of Sir Lancelot in her mirror – which she knows will cause her own death. Street takes the rewrite of the poem as a metaphor to reflect on relationships between nature, feminism, and painting. Ultimately these works are a place for Street to ruminate upon and expose culturally imposed distinctions between the monumental and the intimate, masculine and feminine, convention and inspiration.
April Street lives and works in Los Angeles. She studied bronze casting in central Italy and painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Maccarone, LA; Kinman Gallery, London, UK; Various Small Fires, LA; Carter & Citizen, LA; and The Underground Museum, Los Angeles. She is a grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts. Her solo shows have been reviewed by Artforum, Art in America, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, ArtReview and The Los Angeles Times
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Undertones-Biomorphic Art in Los Angeles Curated by Lindsay Preston Zappas October 3-November 1, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo CA
7 Not-to-Miss Artworks Under $20,000 at the Armory NY 2019
Pussy, King of the Pirates- group show at Maccarone - Los Angeles
July 14 - September 8, 2018
Opening: Saturday, July 14, 4-6PM
Works by: Eleanor Antin, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Sadie Barnette, Vanessa Beecroft, Amy Bessone, Polly Borland, Rebecca Campbell, Gracie DeVito, Trulee Hall, Sharon Lockhart, Monica Majoli, Heather Rasmussen, Alison Saar, Blair Saxon-Hill, Melanie Schiff, Lara Schnitger, Lauren Seiden, April Street, Samantha Thomas, Jennifer West
April Street: The Mariners' Grand Staircase (Armoured Stars and Flying Clouds) Santa Barbara Museum of Art
August 18, 2018 – Feburary 14, 2019
Los Angeles-based artist, April Street kicks off the series with a multi-media installation inspired by the historic voyage of Navigator Eleanor Creesy and Captain Josiah Perkins Creesy in the clipper ship Flying Cloud, which in 1851 set a record by sailing from New York to San Francisco (traveling around Cape Horn in South America) in only 89 days. The installation is comprised of 13 three-dimensional fabric paintings referencing nautical navigation, mythology, and art history installed salon-style on a painted background, and is accompanied by a sound piece depicting a fictional conversation between two fictional Mariners. Street reimagines the Park Project wall as a portrait wall of a grand staircase in the Mariners' home and uses her seafaring couple as stand-ins for the way an artist navigates time through pictures, creating a parallel between artist and place with the characters and their memories.
Presented in coincidence with the artist's residency at the Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House apartment, and a series of interactive projects and environment designed by the artist called "Deep Sky Objects made visible for Everyone" outside of the Family Resource Center.
January 20, 2018-Feburary 24, 2018 Shoulder and the Bow April Street- Solo show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist, April Street. Street’s focused presentation at the gallery will include 9 new fabric-relief paintings that use artifacts of body-imprinted nylons that spring forth, in three dimensions, from hand-painted frames or are suspended from bronze nails. Street's new paintings recall and combine the material experimentation of 1960s/70s feminist practices with references to the theatricality, palette, and illusionism of 17th century Dutch still-life painting. April Street continuously repurposes her paintings’ material parts with displaced objects, personal narratives, and art historical references to ignite a conversation between viewer and the works about representation, duration and absence.
Street's relief paintings emphasize an embodied process. Works in this series begin with a sequence of scripted positions for the body: she imprints her hosiery-fabric covered body into pools of acrylic paint. The paint-stained remnants of these choreographed performances are then stuffed, twisted, and re-painted; distilling the large swaths of fabric into three-dimensional paintings in a format many times smaller than their original yardage.
In Street's work, nothing is as it seems. She constructs dialogues within these not-so-still-lifes that simultaneously allude to the human body and celestial bodies. Their material illusionism suggesting first fabric, then food or objects on a table, then a figure in a landscape.
The relief paintings are a direct evolution from Street’s previous series titled Wandering Limbs. Where those previous paintings explored the absence of the body, her new work insists upon physicality and presence; some semblance of its own embodied psychological awareness. Rich color traverses the swelling protuberances of the relief paintings, urging a renewed exploration of painting's physical manifestation in space.
April Street lives and works in Los Angeles. She studied bronze casting in central Italy and painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Kinman Gallery, London, UK; Various Small Fires, LA; Carter & Citizen, LA; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA; Five Car Garage, Santa Monica; Santa Barbara Museum of Art and The Underground Museum, Los Angeles. She is a grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts. Her solo shows have been reviewed by ArtForum, Art in America, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic and The Los Angeles Times. This is her first exhibition at the gallery.
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-April 5, 2016-- The Good the bad and the ugly part 3 curated by Andreas Reiter Raabe at Gesso Artspace
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1210 Vienna Austria
-October 30th-December 12, 2015| Jesper Just | April Street | -Various Small Fires, Los Angeles CA
-Contemporary Arts Review LA review by Catherine Wagley
April Street - Lay Down Your Arms Oct. 30-Dec. 12 2015
April Street – Wandering Limb 14 (2015), acrylic on hosiery, 68 x 92 inches
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June 4, 2015 Alternative Models-April Street and Julie Joyce in conversation UCSB Santa Barbara CA 
recent:
January 24 2015- March 12, 2015 Nothing Lasts Forever Project by April Street at Emma Gray's 5 Car Garage opening reception4-6pm on Saturday January 24th-RSVP Emma for location info@emmagrayhq.com
-----October 4-November 22 2014- My Self is An Other Kendell Carter, Alexandra Grant, Rives Granade, Dennis Koch, April Street -curated by Claressinka Anderson and Sonny Ruscha Granade at The Underground Museum 3508 W. Washington Blvd Los Angeles, CA
----Artillery Review- by Carol Cheh http://artillerymag.com/april-street/
Los Angeles, CA - Carter & Citizen is proud to present A Vulgar Proof, April Street's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition opens January 11th and closes February 15, 2014. The gallery will host a reception for the artists on Saturday, January 11, from 6 to 9pm
At first glance, the paintings and objects included in A Vulgar Proof, are like elements out of a science fiction novel. The black nylon paintings with puncture holes that cover layers of painted hosiery appear to be portraits of stars in a night sky. The Bronze Elizabethan collars protruding from the wall are like futuristic weapons, and a graceful floor-to-ceiling installation of 100 cast bronze birthday candles suspended by polished soap stones, bronze meat hooks and waxed silk seems like the curious device that holds the key to saving the hero's world at the end of that novel. Like Street's previous work, here there is a tension where things are not always what they seem. For this body of work Street punctures holes revealing the gestures' capability to adapt to and manipulate to our interpretation, folding the suspension of disbelief back on itself while opening up the surface of painting to reveal its inner workings.
The Black Hole Paintings are named after stars whose names have frequently appeared in fiction; they are fantastic, psychedelic time capsules holding clues to the history of painting and the personal movements of the artist. Each painting is wrapped in black nylon with holes cut or punched through revealing layers of painted hosiery. These hosiery layers are artifacts of a private performative act in which the artist wraps herself in hosiery material to enact a series of precise body positions (which she recorded while sleeping) into pools of acrylic paint on a canvas. The impression made by this act creates a positive and a negative and her mark making appears photographic. The negative on the hosiery is then reassembled onto stretchers and the artist considers them to be portraits of the paintings themselves. Street's gravitational configurations of painted hosiery inside black veils of nylon evoke ideas of masking, deception, sexuality, duration, and adaptation, but these objects of action also point to the act of peering through a camera's eye piece—cropping and editing out the unnecessary to get to the heart of being a maker.
The bronze Collars hinge on the ability of the same exact object to transform human interpretation with the slightest altering of a gesture. When tilted up at the height of the viewer, the collar acts as a stand in for the power of a leader when unaltered and flat the collar is clown- like. The installation, Carving 100 now 6 in my bed, with all of its tension and emotional bravado is a risky and tenuous sculpture that points to the duration of painting. The soapstone rocks that hold 100 bronze candles have a history of form and function; they were once used to carve jewelry and weapons by the Cherokee Indians in the Appalachian Mountains where the artist grew up.
A Vulgar Proof in Elizabethan English means a common experience. All the objects in the show are filled with the gestures of making, masking and revealing. We, as the audience, feel familiarity— even in the strangest moments. The work ignites a conversation with eccentric abstraction, feminism, the performative and the informel, while occupying a new space. These paintings and sculptures are psychologically charged vestiges of personal narratives and painting tricks that create a visceral empathy where the tension between object, narrative, and illusion come together in a cohesive, yet mysterious experience for Streets audience.
April Street lives and works in Los Angeles. She studied traditional bronze casting in central Italy and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions have been at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica and Carter & Citizen in Los Angeles CA, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and (upcoming) at Various Small Fires Los Angeles. She received an NEA Project Grant for her video collaboration, Imaging Appalachia. Selected Press includes reviews and articles in Art Forum, Art in America,Los Angeles TImes, the Huffington Post, and LA Weekly.
October 16-November 16 2013. Catherine Czacki / April Street, Emerson Dorsch Gallery Miami FL-----
October 19- November 20, 2013. Heroes. Group show-Curated by David Mcdonald and Whitney Carter. Carter & Citizen Los Angeles CA John Byam, Patricia Fernandez, Joanne Greenbaum, Julia Haft-Candell, David Ireland, Kelly Kleinschrodt, David McDonald, Jessica Rath, Steve Roden, April Street, Bill Walton, Philadelphia Wirema, Bari Zipperstein.-Opening reception: 6-9pm-October 19, 2013
September 8, 2012 through October 20, 2012 at Carter & Citizen Los Angeles CA. April Street. Portraits and Ropes.
