Art with spirit.

April DeConick is a multidisciplinary artist working in clay, fiber, and paint to explore the relationship between feeling, form, and movement. Her organic exuberant works emerge through an instinctive, energetic, physical process—sometimes shaped with her whole body. Treating materials as collaborators rather than tools, she follows their lead to materialize what cannot be planned or predicted.

A scholar of mysticism and long-time professor at Rice University, April creates art to express the inexpressible: the wonder of coming into being. Inspired by the forms and rhythms of nature, her abstractions reflect cycles of blooming, flowing, and emergence. Her tactile, highly textural works explore how we shape ourselves—and are shaped—through the act of making and becoming.