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April Gornik at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

A Cleveland-born landscape painter who has long been a leading member of the lively arts community on the East End of Long Island, April Gornik has been making moving paintings and drawings of the sublime side of nature since the early 1980s. Realistically rendering skies, forests, fields, lakes, oceans and streams without any signs of human or animal life, she creates poetic pictures about the environment, which expose the importance of keeping it pure. Working from memories, dreams and photographs to construct a visionary view of nature in “The Other Side,” Gornik presents 10 new paintings, which range from petite to grand, that capture colorful skies harmoniously meeting pastoral grounds with an incredible sense of lucidity and bliss.

— Paul Laster

The Other Side II, 2022, Oil on linen, 72 x 108 in.

From Jeffrey Gibson’s moving abstractions at Sikkema Jenkins & Co to April Gornik’s luminous landscape paintings at Miles McEnery Gallery, these are the not-to-be-missed shows this month

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Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie kicks off the fall art season with a curated selection of work in a variety of media from five different cities. Ranging from Jeffrey Gibson’s moving abstractions with linguistic references at Sikkema Jenkins & Co and April Gornik’s luminous landscape paintings at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York to Matt Kleberg’s geometric canvases of architectural elements at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco and Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg’s snapshots of famous friends at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, these are the not-to-be-missed shows this month.