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When April Dawn Alison died aged 67 in San Francisco in 2008, no one knew who she was. Since the ’70s she\u2019d been a recluse, appearing only after work and on weekends to take Polaroid self-portraits in her apartment, dressed up like movie stars, housewives and porn actors. Sometimes she looked goofy, sometimes sad, serious, or sexy, other times hauled-up in bondage gear, but she never strayed from where she lived. For years, April Dawn had harboured a secret: she\u2019d been living a double life. During the day, she was called \u2018Alan\u2019, an ex-military commercial photographer. But at night she was someone else.<\/p>\n

This June, a book named after April Dawn<\/a> will, for the first time, collect some of the 9200 self-portraits she took over four decades, shedding light on her art and her life. Following her death, these images were sold by the manager of her estate (April Dawn was, allegedly, estranged from her family), and were eventually acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2017, which this July will exhibit them. Reminiscent of Andy Warhol\u2019s Polaroid selfies, in which the artist experimented with cross-dressing, the photos not only function as aesthetic and personal documents but bring to the fore the struggle of LGBTQ people to live openly in society, both then and now.<\/p>\n

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What is more, had it not been for a chance encounter, these images may still be languishing in obscurity. Having been contacted by a mutual acquaintance of the person who took possession of April Dawn\u2019s archive two years ago, the book\u2019s editor and SFMOMA curator, Erin O\u2019Toole, immediately realised their value. She subsequently sought to contextualise these shots by publishing them alongside texts by New Yorker\u2019s Hilton Als, and LGBTQ activist and producer of the trans comedy Transparent<\/em>, Zackary Drucker. Tackling the ethics of posthumous publication as well as the artistic relevance of these images, O\u2019Toole tells SLEEK why April Dawn\u2019s story is worth telling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":77527,"id":77527,"title":"2017.79.77_01_H01","filename":"2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","filesize":193543,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/2017-79-77_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"2017-79-77_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:49","modified":"2019-06-11 11:18:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.77_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}},{"ID":77525,"id":77525,"title":"09_2017.79.14_01_H01","filename":"09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","filesize":112557,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/09_2017-79-14_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"09_2017-79-14_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:45","modified":"2019-06-11 13:31:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1191,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":121,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1191,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1191,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1191,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1191,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1191,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":15,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/09_2017.79.14_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1191}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"April Dawn Alison, Untitled, n.d.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Andrew Masullo. Courtesy of SFMOMA and MACK"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

This is a very special collection. Have you worked on anything like this before?<\/p>\n

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No, it\u2019s really unique. I\u2019ve been at SFMOMA for 11 years, and I have never seen anything quite like it. I was blown away by a couple of things. One is that there are over 9000 pictures in the archive, and the other is that this was a project that April Dawn Alison was dedicated to for over 30 years.<\/p>\n

How were you able to tell when April took them?<\/p>\n

The pictures are undated, so I tried to determine how old they were through the style of the clothing. My best estimate is that she began circa 1970. We know that she passed away in 2008, so she stopped sometime before that.<\/p>\n

How would you categorise these photos?<\/p>\n

I think the best way to think about them is as a conceptual project. I\u2019m not sure how she would have categorised it, but that\u2019s how I see it. She\u2019s created this fully realised self that she\u2019s documented over the long term. One of the incredible things about it is that we witness her becoming more and more confident and assured as April Dawn over time. At the beginning, there are these very tentative attempts, but then she becomes more comfortable, more fluid. en in the middle period it becomes this incredibly joyous and energetic embrace of April Dawn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":77526,"id":77526,"title":"04_2017.79.470_01_H01","filename":"04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","filesize":131477,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/04_2017-79-470_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"04_2017-79-470_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:47","modified":"2019-06-11 11:04:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/04_2017.79.470_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}},{"ID":77524,"id":77524,"title":"08_2017.79.89_01_H01","filename":"08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","filesize":130814,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/08_2017-79-89_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"08_2017-79-89_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:43","modified":"2019-06-11 13:31:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/08_2017.79.89_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"April Dawn Alison, Untitled, n.d.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Andrew Masullo. Courtesy of SFMOMA and MACK"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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Were you able to piece together an idea of who April was?<\/p>\n

I know quite a bit about her public life as a man, but next to nothing about April Dawn. As far as I can tell, this was a private persona. I\u2019ve spoken to relatives and friends, and none of them knew about her existence or these pictures. April Dawn was known to them as a man named \u2018Alan \u201cAl\u201d Schaefer\u2019, who was born in the Bronx, worked as a commercial photographer, and learned photography in the military.<\/p>\n

How have you reconciled that, ethically, with publishing her photos in a book and an exhibition?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very sensitive to the fact that this work was made for a private purpose and we don\u2019t know if the artist would have wanted them shown. I think that showing the work is the right thing to do, however, because there\u2019s currently a lot of tumult surrounding gender, identity and rights for LGBTQ people, and my hope is that this work will contribute positively to the conversation by providing visibility. I knew as soon as I began considering showing the pictures that I needed to engage the community about what it would mean to do so and to get advice about how I should talk about her given I know so little. I\u2019ve had to consider the consequences of possibly posthumously outing someone as well as what it would mean to not show them. Ultimately, though, when I\u2019ve shown this work to trans women, in particular, they\u2019ve been very excited at the prospect of it being shown because visibility for people of non-normative gender identities is so critical to acceptance, and I\u2019ve taken that seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What was life like for the LGBTQ community in California during April\u2019s lifetime?<\/p>\n

Everyone knows that there\u2019s long been a large and active LGBTQ community in the Bay Area. What I don\u2019t know is whether or not April Dawn participated in it. My sense is that she didn\u2019t. I\u2019ve shown the pictures to a great many people who have tried to help me find others who might have known her and found no one, and after conversations with friends and family my feeling is that April Dawn was a private persona. Even today, it\u2019s very di cult for trans people to be out in the world. It still isn\u2019t safe, despite some improvements, and back in the Seventies it certainly wasn\u2019t, so maybe she never felt safe to be April Dawn outside her apartment. I don\u2019t know for sure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":77521,"id":77521,"title":"11_2017.79.270_01_H01","filename":"11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","filesize":110427,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/11_2017-79-270_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"11_2017-79-270_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:29","modified":"2019-06-11 11:04:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11_2017.79.270_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}},{"ID":77522,"id":77522,"title":"03_2017.79.109_01_H01","filename":"03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","filesize":118157,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/03_2017-79-109_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"03_2017-79-109_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:33","modified":"2019-06-11 11:04:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/03_2017.79.109_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"April Dawn Alison, Untitled, n.d.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Andrew Masullo. Courtesy of SFMOMA and MACK"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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Themes of gender and performance recur throughout the history of photography. Do you see April\u2019s work responding to that?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if she was responding to anything in particular, but I see parallels with the work of artists like Claude Cahun, Gillian Waring, Yasumasa Morimura and of course, Cindy Sherman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Why, as a professional photographer, do you think she chose Polaroids?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a long history of people taking private, often sexual, pictures with Polaroids because you don\u2019t have to send them to a lab to be developed. It\u2019s instant, and there\u2019s something special about the quality of them. They\u2019re these jewel-like objects and the colours are so beautiful and intense.<\/p>\n

What connects these images? Obviously they all feature April, but there are so many different themes and poses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say there are two things. One is the sense of colour. When you see them together, the pictures are just this riot of colour. And then there\u2019s the emotional quality. She\u2019s bearing her soul to the camera. She\u2019s not holding anything back. She\u2019s putting herself out there. There\u2019s no restraint. There\u2019s just pure joy. Sadness. Humour.<\/p>\n

Which are you favourite photos?<\/p>\n

One of my favourites is one where she looks like Joan Crawford. It has a blue background and she\u2019s leaning on the back of this white upholstered chair wearing a bright red sweater. There\u2019s something very sweet about the way she lays her head on the edge of the chair. There\u2019s also a series where you see her only from the waist down wearing a pencil skirt and red pumps. She\u2019s wearing handcuffs and ankle cuffs, and she\u2019s striking these bold poses. They look like a Seventies shoe ad by Guy Bourdin. I love those.<\/p>\n

There are a few recurring poses, but the one that\u2019s most striking is when she turns her back to the camera. What do you think the significance of these images is?<\/p>\n

My first read on it was that she wanted to make sure her hair was right. But when I showed them to several trans women, they felt that they showed her how other people might see her in the world. Whether or not that\u2019s what she was actually doing, I thought that was a very beautiful way of thinking about them. They are about seeing yourself from another person\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":77519,"id":77519,"title":"2017.79.244_01_H01","filename":"2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","filesize":248986,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/2017-79-244_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"2017-79-244_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:23","modified":"2019-06-11 13:31:43","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2017.79.244_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}},{"ID":77520,"id":77520,"title":"02_2017.79.455_01_H01","filename":"02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","filesize":131033,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/april-dawn-alison\/02_2017-79-455_01_h01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"02_2017-79-455_01_h01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77514,"date":"2019-06-11 11:04:26","modified":"2019-06-11 13:31:51","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","thumbnail-width":96,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/02_2017.79.455_01_H01.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"April Dawn Alison, Untitled, n.d.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Andrew Masullo. Courtesy of SFMOMA and MACK"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

April Dawn Aliso<\/a>n ed. by Erin O’ Toole is available now from MACK. The exhibition<\/a> of the same name will open on 6 July through to 1 December at SFMOMA.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in SLEEK 62, out now. 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