Rona Pondick’s Seat acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago

Seat, 1990, wood, wax, epoxy modeling compound, shoes, lace, Unique, 17 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 16 in

Rona Pondick’s Seat is now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. This is the second sculpture of the artist’s to enter the museum’s collection. Created in the early 1990s, Seat is among of a group of works Pondick produced during this period that explore chair forms that integrate shoes at the legs while evoking the human body through their voluminous, anthropomorphic forms.