Presenting the first of 12 prints in our Print of the month Suite: July, 2020 by artist April Bey. Entitled “The Dj’s Still Gay, My Love” this print measures 10 inches square (every print in this suite measures 10”x10”. Like every print in this suite, this print is numbered in an edition of 40 and signed by the artist.
“The Dj’s Still Gay, My Love” was printed by master printer Abel Alejandre on June 23-26, 2020 on a Griffin Etching Press and signed by the artist. This relief print is black ink on 100% cotton fluorescent white 110 Lb paper and proudly published as part of our “Print of the Month” suite by Coagula Editions.
This is the first of twelve prints from our “Print of the Month” suite – Buy your suite now just CLICK HERE for secure payment.
About the Artist
April Bey grew up in the Caribbean (New Providence, The Bahamas) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA as a contemporary visual artist and art educator. Bey’s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, contemporary pop culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within white supremacist systems.
Proud of where she was able to afford an education, Bey received her BFA in drawing in 2009 from Ball State University and her MFA in painting in 2014 at California State University, Northridge.
Bey is in the permanent collection of The California African American Museum, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and The Current, Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas. Bey has exhibited internationally in biennials NE7, NE8 and NE9 in The Bahamas. Bey has also exhibited internationally in Italy, Spain and Accra Ghana, West Africa.
Bey has launched 4 solo exhibitions: Picky Head at Liquid Courage Gallery in Nassau, Bahamas, COMPLY at Coagula Curatorial in Chinatown, Los Angeles, MADE IN SPACE at Band of Vices Gallery in West Adams and most recently a large survey of work spanning several years, Welcome to Atlantica at Fullerton College Art gallery.
Bey travels extensively to collect data for her work having traveled to Canada, Iceland, London, Bali, Dubai, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana, West Africa. 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 Beyoncé hashtag faux feminism. Bey is currently a tenured professor at Glendale College.
