April Marie Mai

My work utilizes bright colors, simple patterns, and textures to explore the collective human unconscious abstractly. Painting and fiber are used in much of my work, along with a variety of other media. The hand is always visible; it provides grounding, and breathes life.

Color Explosion:
I use color and gestural movement to visually play, creating vibrant abstract impasto paintings with many rainbows to get lost in. Making these paintings helps me self-regulate as an autistic person, and brings me joy. The details are as beautiful as the whole.

Kaleidoscope:
A  playful series of digital art prints that replicates a kaleidoscope slowly turning, creating a plethora of patterns.

You Be You, I’ll Be Me:
Utilizing pattern and color to create abstract art that touches on both minimalism and maximalism, this series is a playful, colorful ode to seeing and celebrating our differences, as well as supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

We Will Not Be Silenced:
Amplifying the voices of survivors of sexual assault and harassment with simple and beautiful art.

Poetry:
Exploring my own experiences and how I do and don’t fit into society, my poetry is honest to the point of being raw.

I’m a genderfae person (genderfluid non-binary woman) who is autistic, dyslexic, disabled and queer. I have aphantasia and many other neurodivergencies which affect my artistic practice. Art, humor, activism and love are what keep me going. My work reflects my love of color, plants, flowers and patterns.