April Harrison

From South Carolina, April Harrison is a self-taught artist who believes is merely a vessel being utilized to instinctively create narrative, sentiment and observation. Harrison paints images primarily in acrylics, powders, watercolors, pencils and collage. “I find that working with this unique palette offers faster drying times, enabling me to overlay color in one painting session, giving the work its tapestry-like background.” She often incorporates found objects into her paintings, such as coins from around the world, specialty papers, and magazine prints. “Even my nearly discarded paintings are given new life and recycled into newer works of art, thus creating texture and dimension.”

Harrison has shown her work at Avisca Fine Art, Marietta , GA, Fine Art Images, Richmond , VA, House of Art=2 0Gallery, Brooklyn , NY, Hampton University Museum, Hampton VA, Morris Museum of Art, GA, Black Fine Art Show, NY, Mint Museum/Knight Gallery-Romare Bearden Juried Invitational, NC, Spartanburg County Museum of Art, SC, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC, Pickens County Museum of Art, SC, Savacou Gallery, New York, NY. Her work is in public collections such as Atlanta Housing Authority, GA, English Department, Vanderbilt University, Erskine University Museum Collection, The Divinity School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and private collection including; Whoopi Goldberg,  Denene Millner/Nick Chiles, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jesse L. Martin, and Shaun Robinson.

show. June 9 – July 11, 2009
opening. Saturday, June 13- 6:30-9pm

Fertile, mixed media, 18x18, 2009

Angels Watching Over Me, mixed media, 36x48, 2009

Close, mixed media, 20x24, 2009

Homegrown, mixed media, 24x36, 2009

Basket Maker, mixed media, 24x48, 2009

Ice Milk, mixed media, 24x36, 2009