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April Werle
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What if we were just our hands?
Current — Montana Museum of Art & Culture
Upcoming — solo Chase Gallery
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Heavy on the metaphors here 🕯️🪞👻

Candle Study V, 2025, 14 x 11 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

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April 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Playing around with mirrors 🪞

Candle Study IV, 2025, 12 x 12 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#contemporarypainting #surrealism
April 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Officially up at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture 🫣
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today in studio
March 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Candle Study III is from a series of small works exploring magical objects, the candle and mirror.

I love the mirror as a metaphor. I am intrigued by our ability to see past reflections and visualize versions of ourselves that are based on the biases of others.

#contemporaryart #painting
February 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today in studio
February 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Candle Study II, 2025, 10 x 8 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#contemporaryart #painting
February 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“Where are you from-from?”, 2023, 40 x 30 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#art #contemporarypainting
February 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“I belong to my family.”, 2023, 36 x 36 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#contemporarypainting #surrealism
February 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My first finished study for February

Candle Study I, 2025, 8 x 10 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#acrylicpainting
February 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Top coating this small candle study. Taking February to make some small works and explore some things, before I get back into the larger pieces for my show

#acrylicpainting #painting
February 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So this was an accident from install that I asked if I could keep 😂
February 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Put these pieces in the window at the Holter Museum today.

White knuckle drove there yesterday, and white knuckle drove home today—but these made it safely!

#painting #contemporaryart
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Not art, but I love the camaraderie of when you go to a show and someone in the crowd just starts handing out mustaches.

We need more acts of shared joy.
January 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“I’m not saying my culture is better than yours!”, 2024, 36 x 24 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#surrealism #contemporaryart
January 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One of my favorite shots from a feature with Rocky Mountain Women’s Business Center

PC Whitney Sarah Photography

#artist #artstudio #contemporaryart
January 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Seems like the appropriate amount of coffee 😍 cheers!
January 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“You have to eat vegetables!”, 2024, 24 x 24 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#narrativepainting #acrylicpainting
January 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
January 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“We can send money home.”, 2024, 40 x 30 in, Acrylic and stain on wood panel

#contemporarypainting #narrativepainting
January 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
From Issue 47 of Create! Magazine 🤎

#createmagazine #contemporaryart
January 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A shot from my show at Bell Projects in Denver last year, Secret Life of a Multicultural Couple

#acrylicpainting #artgallery
January 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From my residency at Centrum, I miss the sunny afternoons

#artist #painter
January 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I haven’t worked on anything this small in years, but I am making some small study paintings to experiment with color usage.

#artstudy #acrylicpainting
January 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Scale reference—hands on hands on hands

#artstudio #acrylicpainting
January 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM