APRIL VOLLMER
174 Eldridge Street, #5
New York, NY 10002
212-677-5691
e-mail: april@aprilvollmer.com
website: www.aprilvollmer.com
EDUCATION
Hunter College of the City University of New York, B.A. 1975; M.F.A. 1983
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2010
Sicevo Art Colony Residency, Nis, Serbia, 2008
13 th Annual Fine Arts Assembly, Visegrad, Bosnia, 2006
Nagasawa Art Park Pilot Project Residency, Japan, 2004
Saint Mary s College Residency, 2004
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder, 1999-2001
The Japan America Women of Kansai Prize, 1999
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia, 1993, 94, 95, 96, 98, 2006
Women s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York, 1995
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1993
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Japanese Woodblock Exhibition, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
2008 April Vollmer Woodcuts, Akademija FLU Centre for Graphic Art &Visual Research, Belgrade, Serbia
Voyage to Italy, Architecture and Objects: Large format Digital Prints, Square One Gallery, NYC
April Vollmer, Doing what comes Naturally, Siren’s Song Gallery, NY
2007
Hana to Mushi , Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
2006
Japanese Woodblock Exhibition , Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
Bites and Kisses, Fairleigh Dickinson University College Gallery, NJ
2005
Nature Patterns
, with Sarah Hauser, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
2003
Inside Out
, Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, Philadelphia, PA
Nature Expanded,
with David Lantow, Independence Community Gallery, Brooklyn
Transmutations
, Westchester Gallery, Peekskill, NY
Transmutations: Mind, Body, Pixel, Paper,
The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, PA.
2002
Iteration, Woodcuts from Digital Plans
, Square One Gallery, NYC
2001
Eco Echoes, April Vollmer and Jean Gumppers Prints
, Western Wyoming Community College, WY
Plans and Levitations, Large Format Digital Prints
, Ceres Project Room, NYC
2000
Patterned Behavior, with Sarah Hauser, Organization of Independent Artists, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Radial Patterns, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC
Geometric Themes and Variations, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC
Echoes, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
New Prints 2010: Winter Show, International Print Center New York, NYC
New Prints 2010: Winter Show, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2009
Natural History, Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
Spineless Wonders: Inspiring Invertebrates, Atrium Gallery, Lewiston-Auburn College, ME
2009 The Relief Print: Contrasting Surfaces, The Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
Busy Bees, Exchange project
Man Overboard, An International Portfolio Exhibition, Studio 101, Chicago, IL 2008
Footprint International, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT (Honorable Mention Award) 2007
2008 Black+White = Grey, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY
Microspace, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY
5th Lessedra World Art Print Annual
, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Exchange International NY/Belfast
, Northern Bank Building, Belfast, Ireland
Art from the 13 th Annual Fine Arts Assembly
, Visegrad City Gallery, Bosnia
Japanese Woodcuts
, Centre International d Art Contemporain de Pont-Aven, France
2005
Hand Pulled
, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Friends
, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Moku hanga at Union, an Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts
, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2004
Japanese and World Moku Hanga
, Hyogo Prefecture Museum, Kobe, Japan
Superheroines
, Gallery 128, NYC
Paint by Numbers,
Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Day Job: Work Influencing Work,
Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Through Our Eyes,
Artists Response to our Complex Times, Art In General, NYC
The Body Virtual, An Exhibition of Digital Prints,
Western Wyoming Community College, WY
The New Hybrid, Hand Pulled Digital Prints,
Resnick Gallery, LIU, Brooklyn, NY
Jugalbandi,
Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC
Tunnel of Love,
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Out from Japan: A Show of Japanese Watercolor Woodblocks,
55Mercer Gallery, NYC
Ink from Wood: Two Traditions
, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Change,
Ceres Gallery, NYC
Rivington Beach,
Gallery Onetwentyeight NYC
New York Cross-Cut,
Kunstverein Firma Paradigma, Linz, Austria
Flag Project,
Henry Street Settlement, NYC and One Station Space, Peekskill, NY
2002
Benefit Print Portfolio,
Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
Matt Brown and Friends: Hanga Color Wood prints,
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Rebound,
Ceres Gallery, NYC
2001
Birds, Bugs and Beasts,
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery
,
Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Insects and Architecture,
Digital Dumbo, Skizum Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Annual Print and Book Show,
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Changing the Image,
Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
International Miniature Print Exhibition,
Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT
2000
Mandala 2000,
Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Faculty Exhibition,
University of South Dakota Gallery, Vermillion, SD
Red/Desert,
Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Graphic Language
, Marymount Manhattan Gallery, NYC
Elements 2000,
Silicon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Millennium Bug
, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Intersections of East and West, Contemporary Printmakers in Japan,
Contemporary Impressions, Spring 2005.
Printmaking as Alchemy: Etching, woodcut and digital printing as tools of transformation
,
Contemporary Impressions, Spring 2003.
Cover: SCIENCE -
J. Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science,
Vol.297, No.5585, 23 Aug 2002
Roman Fugu DNA Edition:
hanga woodcut
Into Digital, Printmaking TodayWinter 2001, Vol. 10, No. 4
Hanga Woodcut Prints, illustrated.
OIA Newsletter
, Summer 2000.
Digital Printing on Kozo Paper, World of Washi
,
Summer 2000, Vol. 6, No. 3
Moku Hanga: Traditional Japanese Woodcut, Printmaking TodayWinter 1998, Vol. 7, No. 4
BOOK CITATIONS
Diehn, Gwen.
Simple Printmaking,
Lark Books, 2000. Photo:
Attractor
.
Tiernan, Michelle.
Dictionary of Printmaking Terms,
A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd, London, 2002.
Salter, Rebecca.
Japanese Woodblock Printing.
Printmaking Handbooks, London, 2001.
SELECTED REVIEWS AND CATALOGUES
Ayres,Julia.
Establishing a Baby-Safe Studio
Watercolor Magazine, fall 2000. Photo:
Ancient History,
p. 78.
Fleminger, Susan.
In-Sites II
.
Artscape
, Winter issue, 1996. Photo:
A New Approach.
Goddard Riverside Community Center
. Animal Stories,
catalogue, NYC, 1994.
Gordon, Alistair.
A Vivid View of Man and Animal
.
Newsday,
April 6, 1990. Photo:
Deuce of Worms
.
Harrison, Helen A.
Drawing Moral Lessons from Nature
.
New York Times
, April 1, 1990.
Meade, Bruce.
April Vollmer Gives Talk on Hanga,
World of Washi, Spring 2001. Vol. 7, No.2
Salter, Rebecca.
Japan Times,
Reinventing Tradition, Woodblock art comes of age, Jan. 30, 2002
WORKSHOPS/TEACHING
Lecture Demonstrations: Hunter College, School of Visual Art, Union College, Fairleigh Dickinson College
Lower East Side Printshop, yearly workshops in Japanese woodblock, NYC
Japan Society, NYC;
Druckstelle
Printshop, Berlin; Mix-It Studios, Boston; Josephine Press, Los Angeles, CA;
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA;Frogman's Print and Paper, University of South Dakota; Dieu Donn Papermill, NYC;
Horizons Craft Program, Sunderland, MA; Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT;Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD;
The Artist as Curator,
WCA panel, moderated by Sharon Vatsky, Queens Museum, 1996
Sakura Matsuri, Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival
, Brooklyn Botanic Garden annual hanga woodcut demonstrations
COLLECTIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC
City of Tsuna, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Dieu Donn Papermill, NYC
Emily Mason & Wolf Kahn, NYC
Equitable Corp. Collection (now Axa), NYC
James Schutz, M.D., NYC
Jersey City Museum, NJ
Kathy Caraccio Editions, NYC
Keiko Kadota Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Spencer Museum (Univ. Kansas) National Association of Women Artists, NYC The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center of the Portland Art Museum, OR KIWA Kyoto International Woodcut Association, Japan
The Population Council, NYC
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Visegrad City Gallery, Visegrad, Bosnia
