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Artist Exhibitions:
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Upcoming Exhibitions 2009
Florence Biennale (Invited by
the selection committee)
Florence, Italy December
5-13, 2009
Previous Fairs
Affordable Art Fair NYC
New York City, USA
The Armory Show at Bridge Art
New York City, USA
Art Basel Miami at Bridge Art
Miami, USA
Art Forum at ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Milan, Italy Ars
Italica Galleria d’Arte
Ferrara, Italy
Trevisan Arte Contemporanea
New York City, USA Monkdogz
Urban Art
New Orleans, USA Carol
Robinson Gallery
Victoria, Canada Sooke
Harbour House Gallery
Cayman Islands The
Kennedy Gallery. Pure Art
Gallery
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Artist Reviews:
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ARTnews Top
Collectors issue summer 2009
Studio & Gallery
Feb/March 2009 page 12
NYarts Magazine March
2009
ARTnews March
2009
Modern Painters March
2009
Cayman Net Newspaper January
2 2009 page 18
Modern Painters Dec/Jan
2009
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Collections:
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1- National Gallery of the
Cayman Islands.
2- Eight paintings were
featured in Orlando Bloom's
movie "Haven".
3- Paintings from the "Sails"
series were chosen for banners
for National Heroes Day 2008
in Cayman.
4- Andreas Ugland Collection
5- Private collections in
Italy, Japan, USA,
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for April Bending
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Please go to You Tube and type in April Bending to view a video discussion on my work.Or www.aprilbending.com
Statement for recent solo show in NYC
Limiting the palette allows the viewer to focus on the image rather than be distracted by a myriad of colours; much as a black and white photograph requires a different mind set to view than a colour photograph does. But colours do envoke emotions, so I use simple monochromatic schemes to set the moods of the paintings. The black under painting provides a backdrop that can become somber or serene.
Texture is also important. It allows me to use the surface of the canvas to diffuse light and create vagaries and ambiguities as additional layers of paint are applied. Those ambiguities require the viewer to participate in deciphering the piece through personal interpretation.
Often viewers see different meanings in my paintings. This pleases me because it means that people are referring to their own unique experiences to understand my work. And, even though one painting can be interpreted in many ways, those ways are limited to our communal experiences which are all part of the human condition.
One might expect to see paintings of people in a show that is focusing on the human condition but in this show there are also images of fish and fossils. Because, having been in existence since early times, I see a connection to them and the human desire for immortality.
The juxtaposition of the fragile lives of fish, with the sculpture-like remains which become fossils, emphasizes mortality and immortality.
APRIL BENDING
BIOGRAPHY
2009 - INVITATION TO FLORENCE BIENNALE
Bending continues to show internationally and is invited by The Selection Committee of the FLorence Biennale to participate in 2009.
2008 – INTERNATIONAL SHOWS
April Bending is continuing with a full schedule of international shows, from NYC, Milan, Beijing, Berlin to the Cayman Islands. (Please see Exhibitions)
2005 – EXHIBITING AGAIN
Refocusing on her own artwork after many years of working with others, Bending, a prolific artist, began exhibiting widely again.
2001 – MOVE TO GRAND CAYMAN.
As well as teaching at the University College of the Cayman Islands, she founded art classes at the prisons and developed classes for troubled teens. Influenced by the tropical surroundings, her abstracted works became more representational.
1990 – FIRST SOLO SHOW - TOKYO AND YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.
Her abstract landscapes, with their subtle layers of texture, appealed to the Japanese sensibility.
1978 – MOVE TO VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Active in promoting the arts, she served on the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Island Illustrators' Society and the Community Arts Council of Victoria, chairing the Awards and Grants Committee for the latter. Her work continued to explore abstract expression.
1970 – BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE
Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1948, Bending, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta, on the Canadian prairies. The curriculum emphasised many traditional, classical art forms with emphasis on realism. When abstraction was encouraged she developed what would be a life long passion for texturing paint.
AWARDS AND CREDITS
2008 – BANNER AND FLAG IMAGE AWARD for Hero’s Day display, Cayman Islands.
2007 – FRONT COVER BOOK AWARD
Bending's painting, "Sunset on an Era", won the cover award for "New Art International”, a compendium of contemporary art. Inside are six pages of her images with critiques.
2006 - ORLANDO BLOOM'S MOVIE HAVEN
Bloom Eight of Bending's paintings were chosen for the sets of “Haven”, a movie filmed in the Cayman Islands starring Orlando Bloom.
COLLECTIONS
April Bending's work is in the collections of both the National Gallery and the National Museum of the Cayman Islands as well as in private collections in Japan, Great Britain, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Switzerland, Canada and the United States of America.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Milan, Italy New Ars Italica Galleria d’Arte Milan
New York City, USA Monkdogz Urban Art
Montreal, Canada Galerie Gora
Cayman Islands The Kennedy Gallery,Pure Art Gallery
The Morgan Gallery
New Orleans, USA Carol Robinson Gallery
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