{"id":11094,"date":"2021-02-26T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:53:40","slug":"april-bey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/april-bey\/","title":{"rendered":"April Bey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2675\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11094-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AprilBey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AprilBey.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AprilBey.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11096 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Credit_April_Bey1.jpeg?resize=291%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Credit_April_Bey1.jpeg?resize=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Credit_April_Bey1.jpeg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.april-bey.com\/\">April Bey<\/a> grew\u00a0up in The Bahamas (New Providence) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA as a visual artist and art educator.\u00a0Bey\u2019s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within supremacist systems. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bey\u2019s work is in the collection of The California African American Museum, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, and more. Bey has exhibited in biennials NE7, NE8 and NE9 in The Bahamas. Bey has also exhibited internationally in Italy, Spain and Accra Ghana, West Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bey has launched 5 solo exhibitions:\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Picky Head <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Liquid Courage Gallery in Nassau, Bahamas,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COMPLY <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Coagula Curatorial in Chinatown, Los Angeles, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MADE IN SPACE <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Band of Vices Gallery in West Adams, a large survey of work spanning several years, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to Atlantica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Fullerton College Art gallery and most recently a solo presentation with UPFOR Gallery at UNTITLED ART ONLINE Art Fair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bey is both a practicing contemporary artist and art educator having taught a controversial course at Art Center College of Design called Pretty Hurts analyzing process-based art and Beyonc\u00e9 hashtag faux feminism.\u00a0 Bey is currently a tenured professor at Glendale College.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11113\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?resize=640%2C826&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?resize=793%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 793w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?resize=768%2C991&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?resize=696%2C899&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?resize=325%2C420&amp;ssl=1 325w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gavlak_2-12_010_erkeeb.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And I&#8217;m Calm, Calculated and Perfectly Aligned aprilbey@gmail.com Watercolor drawing, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, hand-sewn &#8220;African&#8221; fabric, oil impasto 40 x 30 in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11114\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11114 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=640%2C789&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=831%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 831w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1 244w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=768%2C946&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=324%2C400&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=696%2C857&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?resize=341%2C420&amp;ssl=1 341w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COLONIAL SWAG: First Edition Atlanticans aprilbey@gmail.com Digital print stapled into eco fur on panel 30 x 24 in 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AprilBey.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listApril Bey grew\u00a0up in The Bahamas (New Providence) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA as a visual artist and art educator.\u00a0Bey\u2019s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, feminism, generational theory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_0294_vtwyax.png?fit=1000%2C1232&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-2SW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11117,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions\/11117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}