updates from April Banks
Posted on | February 27, 2009 | No Comments
Spring is almost here!
Greetings Everyone,
Here are a few updates for my latest art endeavors. I’m looking forward to a prosperous year full of change and forward momentum.
With peace and prosperity,
April
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Opening this Week. . .
image from Mass Nausea at Headlands Art Center
Mass Nausea:2
Mass Nausea is a series of people “vomiting” M&M chocolate candies as a visual protest of the Mars Corporation’s stake in Cote D’Ivoire’s conflict produced cocoa. The brightly colored, best selling, seemingly innocuous candy comes at the enormous expense of child slave labor and exploitative trading practices.
@ ProArts Gallery
Show: (Project Space) Mass Nausea:2
Location: 550 Second Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Show runs: Feb 26 – April 19, 2009
Opening: Feb 26, 6-8pm
more info: ProArts Gallery
Opening in March. . .
The Hand I Eat With
@ June Steingart Gallery
Show: “Female Focus” Group Photography Exhibition
Location: Laney College, 900 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA
Show runs: March 24 – April 23, 2009
Opening: March 24
more info: June Steingart Gallery
San Francisco International Chocolate Salon
image of cacao pods from my travels to Ghana
The Gift
Art Gallery at the SF International Chocolate Salon
Show: SF International Chocolate Salon
Location: Fort Mason Center, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
Opening: March 21, 10am-6pm
more info: SF International Chocolate Salon
California Visions Award
The month of March, I will be in residence at the 18th St. Art Center in Santa Monica, CA. Unfortunately I will not be in attendence at my Bay Area openings in March.
more info: Visions from the California
Opening in April. . .
Navajos Creep Me in They Teepees* (Collaboration with Amanda Williams)
*image from a photography series about the prevalence of double entendres in rap music/popular culture.
The lyrics “. . .Navajos creep me in they teepees. . .” are from rapper Biggie Smalls’ song, “Give Me One More Chance.”
@ The DePaul Art Museum
Show: “Double Exposure” Traveling Photography Exhibition
Location: 2350 N. Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614
Show runs: April 16 – June 14, 2009
Opening: April 16th, 5-7pm
more info: DePaul Art Museum
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