{"id":3684,"date":"2021-02-26T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T01:24:22","slug":"april-bey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/april-bey\/","title":{"rendered":"April Bey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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

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

Bey has launched 5 solo exhibitions:\u00a0<\/span>Picky Head <\/span><\/i>at Liquid Courage Gallery in Nassau, Bahamas,\u00a0<\/span>COMPLY <\/span><\/i>at Coagula Curatorial in Chinatown, Los Angeles, <\/span>MADE IN SPACE <\/span><\/i>at Band of Vices Gallery in West Adams, a large survey of work spanning several years, <\/span>Welcome to Atlantica<\/span><\/i> at Fullerton College Art gallery and most recently a solo presentation with UPFOR Gallery at UNTITLED ART ONLINE Art Fair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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And I’m Calm, Calculated and Perfectly Aligned aprilbey@gmail.com Watercolor drawing, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, hand-sewn “African” fabric, oil impasto 40 x 30 in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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COLONIAL SWAG: First Edition Atlanticans aprilbey@gmail.com Digital print stapled into eco fur on panel 30 x 24 in 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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April 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, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within supremacist systems. \u00a0 Bey\u2019s work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}