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
april april and Romance will present work by Aaronel deRoy Gruber in a solo presentation at Independent. Alongside diverse mediums, deRoy Gruber (1918–2011) gained recognition for her polychromatic, geometric sculptures in transparent vacuum-formed acrylic. The technique, which softened the characteristically hard-edged material, allowed her to produce nested layers of pristine machined surfaces, sometimes in a kinetic format or otherwise evoking a sense of potential velocity. The resulting forms spellcast and initiate inquiry into forces of movement—physical, cultural, cosmic—that shape the spectacle and speed of contemporary life.

deRoy Gruber remained in Pittsburgh for the duration of her life and career, and working with the region’s industrial suppliers and specialty fabricators was key to the development of her practice. A student of design, art and costume, deRoy Gruber graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1940 and exhibited at galleries including the historic Bertha Schaefer, New York and Juana Mordó, Madrid. This is the first major presentation of her work in New York in a decade. The presentation is conceived in collaboration with the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation and Director, Brittany Reilly.