Bio:
April received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied the moving image.

Her films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center (Views), Film Anthology Archives in New York, Black Maria Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, and on PBS to name a few. April has taught film production, theory and history at the University level for over 20 years.

Her still images have shown at The Galleries at Cabarrus Arts Council - LIMINAL Group show and the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte NC - Coined in the South.

Work Process:
April started working in Photograhy and Mixed Media in 2022. She collects and stores unrelated images from different modalities and mediums—3D modeling, photographs, paintings even advertisements. She removes the color, texture, and context from which they originate. These elements then form a visual depository or footage bin, from which she uses to create a digital composition.

Once the composition is complete a print is made using archival materials and mounted to board or canvas.

Then the painting begins.

Artist Statement:
My work explores the relationship between the observer and the observed and the blurred boundaries of reality and illusion. I am interested in the convergence of painting, photography and 3D modeling.