april april

About the Gallery
april april is an art gallery located in the Regent Square neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the borough of Wilkinsburg. The gallery represents and exhibits a comprehensive range of practices with an artist-driven curatorial sensibility. It was founded by Patrick Bova and Lucas Regazzi in 2021. From 2021-2024, the gallery operated as a project space in the front room of their apartment in Brooklyn, New York. april april is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

About the Presentation
Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand will make her New York solo debut in a presentation with april april, a first-time exhibitor at Independent.

Montréal-based artist Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand’s multidisciplinary practice catalogues a collision of worlds that are equally wondrous and mundane, illustrating the fullness of life’s heartbreak, fantasy, death, and absurdity. She is driven by a respect for the inherent value of all things, resulting in sincere, yet coy, material cohabitations in her sculptural assemblages and drawings. As the artist describes, her work exists for the “most nameable and unnameable things to brush shoulders.”

Language is central to Van Der Donckt-Ferrand’s work, wherein her trilingualism dances through meaning to produce a specific yet capacious written and pictorial lexicon, a personal pop-cosmology. Van Der Donckt-Ferrand’s fidelity to the poetics of drawing can be further understood in the wake of artists like Aloïse Corbaz, James Castle, and Shuvinai Ashoona. For all of these artists, drawing was and is an exposé of rich interior worlds.

For Independent 2025, april april will present new pencil and graphite drawings on colored paper alongside a suite of sculptures, including a series of music boxes featuring composites of original and borrowed songs.