April Kasper
I create art because that’s what I’m on the planet to do; Paint with my body & paint with other people’s bodies. Different is Beautiful
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Who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their artwork at The Art of Elysium's Salon?
Voting opens Monday, May 4th at 10AM PDT
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Learn MoreWhat is your favorite type of art to create?
Painting and performance art. I love sharing this experience with others and showing them how to create or at least prompting them to take the time to be creative and showing them it is accessible to anyone. I enjoy performing along with painting with my body the most, especially my latest work with my Body Prints paintings I’ve found that’s where the painting starts, in the music. The music is also connected to color and movement that I enjoy sharing in a playful and sometimes sexy way.
Where do you find inspiration?
Music inspires me, everyday life stuff like humans and the things we go through and living things, even bugs, plants and landscapes. I love painting about life. Body Prints came to me in a vision and continues to arrive for me in that way. It’s what I’m meant to do here. I don’t find inspiration, it finds me. In fact I’m completely immersed in it like sweet honey that will never leave me completely clean, always a little bit of sweetness left to paint about.
What would you do with $25,000?
Talk to my Financial Advisors and invest in my dream for Body Prints. Bring it to people that are not expecting to create in this way and inspire their journey to propel them forward with a lovely piece of art made by them that may last a season or become an heirloom piece. Art is so meaningful when we are part of making it and I can’t wait to help people leave their mark with Body Prints.
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