April Hammock
Patterns of Visions
jul 1 - 27, 2025
FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING: jul 2, FROM 6 - 9PM
ARTICULATE ARTIST TALK: SUNDAY, jul 6, AT 4PM.
NORMAL GALLERY HOURS: TUE - SUN, 12PM - 6PM
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April Hammock's work consists of acrylic paintings focusing on form and spaces intertwining, breaking apart, and building. The work is influenced by both metaphysics and a perceived ambiguity between exterior and interior spaces.
“Quasi-archetypes and primordial images have been constants with my recent works. I contemplate on how I can create forms that can create more complex ones. This process helps me express my interpretation of the inner self in the evolutionary sense.
Recent works have focused on the idea of ethereal matter ensnared in the unstoppable march of time and the weblike networks merging to block yet guard, thus protecting entities behind it but also restricting them; systems that trick the eye and mind into ongoing contemplations.
The cycles of life and death through the use of repeated patterns and rhythmic repetitions of forms in environments like floating vortexes and other bodies of elements in space.” - Hammock
April received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. She is a member of Baton Rouge Gallery, Silvermine Art Guild, New Canaan, CT, and an Art File Member of The Painting Center, NYC. Her works have been exhibited internationally, nationally, and throughout her home state of Louisiana.
A strong advocate for the Visual and Performing Arts in Education, April has taught at Louisiana State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Southeastern Louisiana University. She is an Instructor for The Gifted and Talented Program for exceptionally advanced visual arts students where she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with her husband who is a writer.
This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from Marcus McAllister, Hye Yeon Nam, & Nonney Oddlokken. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during regular gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from July 1 - 27, 2025.