{{Short description|American artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = April Street | birth_date = 1975 | birth_place = Virginia | education = Tennessee University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | known_for = Painting, Installation | website = http://www.aprilstreet.com | movement = Feminist }} '''April Street''' (born 1975) is an American artist acclaimed for painting and installation art. Street is known for her paintings where she begins with a private act of wrapping her body in swathes of fabric, and then choreographing herself dipping into various pools of paint.<ref>{{Cite web |title=April Street: The Shoulder and the Bow at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects |url=https://artreview.com/ar-april-2018-review-april-street/ |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=artreview.com |language=en}}</ref> She then covers her canvases with paint-streaked hosiery fabric, like flesh over bone, that exist in a plane between sculpture and painting, similar to artists Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Carolee Schneemann.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sommer |first=Danielle |date=2012-12-01 |title=April Street |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/april-street-61389/ |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pagel |first=David |date=2014-01-24 |title=Review: April Street conjures gritty romanticism in 'A Vulgar Proof' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-art-review-april-street-a-vulgar-proof-at-carter-citizen-20140118-story.html |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Work == A Los Angeles-based artist, whose work has been exhibited throughout Southern California and internationally. Street studied bronze casting in Cortona, Italy and painting at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web |title=April Street: The Mariners' Grand Staircase (Armoured Stars, Flying Clouds), SBMA |url=https://www.lumartzine.com/articles/april-street-the-mariners-grand-staircase |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=LUM |language=en-US}}</ref> Referencing history, exploration, mythology, and art history, Street's works combine the material experimentation of Second-wave feminism with allusions to the theatricality, illusionism, and palette of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.<ref>{{Cite web |title=April Street: The Mariners' Grand Staircase (Armoured Stars, Flying Clouds) - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/209889/april-streetthe-mariners-grand-staircase-armoured-stars-flying-clouds/ |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=September 2012 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201207 |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=www.artforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Street has had solo exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Underground Museum, and Vielmetter Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=April Street: The Mariners' Grand Staircase (Armoured Stars, Flying Clouds) {{!}} Santa Barbara Museum of Art |url=https://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/aprilstreet |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=www.sbma.net}}</ref>
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