About

April Werle paints tableaus of black-and-white hands acting out quotes from intimate, everyday scenes of her mixed Filipino American family. Her autobiographical work narrates how culture is internalized and negotiated by mixed-race individuals and multicultural families through small, impactful moments. Werle sets scenes with visual metaphors—displacing hands from their roots, combining brown stain and whitewash, and perpetually other-ing her rendered characters from their simplified, colorful, and tactile environments.

April Werle (b. 1995, USA) is a narrative painter based in Missoula, …