Rona Pondick's Prairie Dog acquired by the Portland Museum of Art

Rona Pondick, Prairie Dog, 2011-13, stainless steel, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in, 10.8 x 19.68 x 12.06 cm.

Nunu Fine Art is excited to share that Rona Pondick's Prairie Dog has been acquired by the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine through a generous gift from Antonio Homem.

Since she came to prominence in the late 1980’s, the New York-based artist has worked with fragments that evoke the body—such as shoes, baby bottles, and teeth—reconfigured into new psychologically provocative wholes. In the late 1990s, she produced the first of her hybrid sculptures that marry her own body parts with those of animals and trees. In Prairie Dog, Pondick continues this exploration of the human body as a site for metamorphosis and hybridity. The sculpture fuses human and animal parts into an ambiguous form that resists easy categorization. Cast in stainless steel, the reflective surface invites the viewer to reflect on the fluid boundaries between body and environment, self and other.

In 2021, Nunu Fine Art Taipei presented Rona Pondick: Sculpture, the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia.