Rona Pondick's "Slim Jack" will be shown in South Bohemian Gallery, Czech Republic, from June 8th to November 11th, 2024.
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Rona Pondick, Slim Jack, 2011-22, patinated bronze, unique, 47 x 24 x 27 in | 119.38 x 60.96 x 68.58 cm
Rona Pondick Featured in 'Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture' at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
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Nestled within the heart of nature's splendor, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park is a harmonious fusion of art and the outdoors. The recent group exhibition, 'Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture' (October 20, 2023 - February 25, 2024), features New York-based artist Rona Pondick, along with 14 other artists, including Louise Bourgeois.
By delving into Rona Pondick's bronze works, 'Fukien Tea' and 'Double Azalea,' visitors are encouraged to discover sculptures resembling and inspired by trees and to explore the symbolism of trees. The artist has cast these trees in bronze, replacing their pomes or tips with minuscule self-portrait heads or hands, resulting in primal and disquieting assemblages. These sculptures trace the artist’s enduring fascination with physical and psychic transformation.
New York-Based Artist Rona Pondick's Works Added to Museum Collections
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Muskrat (2002-05) is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Milkman (1989) and Sourballs (1995) are in the collection of the Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Red Platter (21) (1994) and Mouth #66 are in the collection of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
"Tilted Yellow" by Rona Pondick displayed at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
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Rona pondick, Tilted Yellow, 2014-2018 , Pigmented resin and acrylic, 8 x 22 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches (20.3 x 56.2 x 56.2 cm)
Rona Pondick's sculpture "Tilted Yellow" is currently on view, till Aug 27, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, showcasing the museum's latest contemporary acquisitions. The exhibition also includes works by Holly Coulis, Julia Wachtel, Ingrid Calame.
Since 2013 and firstly shown in 2018, Pondick turned her focus from stainless steel to color along with resin and acrylic as new materials for her ongoing sculptural explorations into metamorphosis. "Tilted Yellow" (2014-2018) marks one of her first works using them.
With processes involving hand modeling, carving, casting, and 3D computer scanning, "Tilted Yellow" presents a translucent, illuminating, and bizarrely beautiful yellow casting of her own head, evoking a self-portrait, slumber, or introspection—a testament to Pondick's unwavering determination to push the boundaries of materials and identities.
5 sculptures and one work on paper by Rona Pondick have entered the Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York
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pigmented resin and acrylic，14.5 x 20 x 21.5 cm｜5.7 x 7.9 x 8.5 inches (Courtesy of the artist)
The artwork by American artist Rona Pondick has become a part of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's collection in New York. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located at Cornell University, was established in 1973. Since its inception, the museum has welcomed visitors free of charge. It continually strives to fulfill its cultural and educational responsibility by serving a broad and diverse audience.
Rona Pondick’s Monkeys and Head in Tree on View at Belvedere Museum
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American artist Rona Pondick’s metal sculptural work Monkeys was on display in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere since September. Monkeys, created during 1998-2001, shows several monkeys playing around, while some body parts appear in human forms. The hybrid form of human and monkey reveals suffering among playfulness, demonstrating the artist’s artistic style during this creative period.
In the meantime, Rona Pondick’s Head in Tree is also included in the exhibition Grow: The Tree in Art at the Lower Belvedere. The exhibition is curated by art historian and curator Miroslav Haľák, focusing artworks related to trees to demonstrate the complex connection between human beings and the ecology as well as the various roles trees play in it. Pondick’s Head in Tree, created during 2006-2008, combines the tree form and a human head cast from the artist’s own. It responds to the human-tree hybrid form in art and mythologies, and the complicated relationship between human subjects and flora and fauna in the natural world.
On the exhibition opening on Sept. 22, over 600 VIP guests gathered in the Marble Hall where Pondick’s Head in Tree was on display, enjoying the artist’s artistic creation.
Photo: Johannes Stoll
Rona Pondick’s “Wallaby” and “Cat” on View at Nassau County Museum of Art
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Rona Pondick 作品〈小袋鼠〉（Wallaby）、〈貓〉（Cat）於拿騷美術館展出（照片由藝術家提供）
Leading American contemporary artist Rona Pondick, is scheduled to have her sculpture works exhibited at four major art institutions across the US and Europe in the latter half of 2022. The first exhibition will be “Other Worlds Than This: The Supernatural” in Art at the Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, in which her two sculptural works “Wallaby” and “Cat” joins a number of artworks related to the otherworldly possibilities. The artist is also giving a talk on her artistic career since the mid-1980s.
American artist Rona Pondick will exhibit in five major art institutions in the second half of the 2022
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American leading artist Rona Pondick will exhibits her early works "Monkeys", "Head in Tree" in Lower Belvedere and Upper Belvedere, two of the most privilege art space in Austria. The work "Wallaby" will be in "The Supernatural in Art" group exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. From July 23 to November 6th, 2022. Pondick's recent development "Color Sculptures" has been drawing enormous attention in the contemporary scene. Both Zuckerman Museum of Art in Georgia and Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY will include her color sculptures in both museums exhibitions.
American sculptor Roma Pondick’s interview with the magazine ODDA
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Rona Pondick is a well-known American sculptor, and the topic of her works revolves around her personal experience of physical imprisonment and freedom of mind. She is known for her hybridized, metaphorical, and shifing approaches to the human body. During the conversation with the famous magazine ODDA, Pondick shares her intenpreiation of time and reficcts on varied aspects of human nature, explaining her view on our world being.
Rona Pondick Added to Collection of “Walker Art Center”
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“Wallaby” had recently been collected by Walker Art Center, one of the most-visited modem and contemporary art muscums in the United States. Walker Art Center is once lumber baron T. B. Walker's private collecti tion. Since he invited the public to visit his collection in 1879, it evolved into the Walker Art Center. This work will be joining other works by top artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Yoko Ono, and Kara Walker in this collection.
New York artist Rona Pondick's sculptures “Head in Tree“ at Nasher Sculpture Center, USA.
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"If you can't defeat the nature, why not join them?"— Rona Pondick
New York artist Rona Pondick's sculptures “Head in Tree” is now exhibiting in the "Nasher Mixtape" group show, in Nasher Sculpture Center, USA.
In late 90s', Rona started to make mold from her own head and combine it with stylized animal and tree bodies that she hand modeled. These hybrid animal/human forms go back to Neolithic times and appear through every period in art history and all kinds of myths.
"Head in Tree" was the first tree/human piece where Rona's head was life-size. The master of materials talked to, Catherine Craft the Nasher Sculpture Center Curator, about this work and said: "In my tree human pieces, the matte and rough surfaces of the bark make a contrast with my smooth, shiny head. Playing on the concept of narcissism, the mirrored surfaces draw viewers into looking at themselves. I like the way these contrasting, contradictory surfaces come together and make metaphoric meanings."
Rona Pondick’s Work Exhibit at Kunstmuseum, Germany
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New York artist Rona Pondick is now exhibiting her “Little Bathers” in exhibition “In Aller Munde (On Everyone’s Lips)” at Kunstmuseum. Moreover, this Rona’s signature piece from 1990s is invited to show on collaterals and outdoor ads as exhibition key visual. With the symbolic and metaphoric reading of teeth, “Little Bathers” lead us to examine and explore various dissents in response to agendas in our days.
Founded in 1994, Kunstmuseum has prominent collection of contemporary arts and often hosts exhibitions that reflect the environment in which it exists.
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▎In Aller Munde (On Everyone’s Lips)
Duration: October 31, 2020 - April 5, 2021
Rona Pondick's "Curly Grey" is Exhibited at Nunu Fine Art, B1
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Image: Rona Pondick, Curly Grey, Pigmented resin, acrylic, and epoxy modeling compound 51.1 x 46 x 46.4 cm | 20.1 x 18 x 18.3 inches，2016-18
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Nunu Fine Art’s represented artist Rona Pondick has just won the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Art Purchase Program. We can uncover the charm and the turning point of her artistic practice in the latest catalogue Rona Pondick: 2013-2018.
As a self-innovated searcher, Rona Pondick has the straightforwardness of following her instinct, the love for distinct media, and the ability of technical problem solving. All of these features mentioned above lead Pondick keep on pursueing the journey of wisdom. Also, the proclivity for experimentation makes her art connotes the varied quality and viewing angle.
The latest catalogue brings the viewers Pondick’s brand new creation in the past five years. Our old friends who is familiar with Pondick may be asking this “Why do the works in these past five years are way deviates from the cast stainless steel sculptures she had been making for a decade and a half?” Although we can still see some familiar elements——human heads and hands melded with bodies of other species——yet the new works are made from resin , acrylic , and an epoxy modeling compound. They overtly present the traces of Pondick ' s hand clearly.
The Fall Destiny Variation: Take "My" body as the New Theme of Creating
In 2006, Pondick was diagnoses with cervical spondylotic myelopathy - compression of the spine. This made Pondick, a person who “thinks with her hands” devastated. A year later, through hard work and strength of will , her health has continued to improve. Still, the illness and surgeries changed Pondick' s life and work in significant ways. Today, as she moves around the studio, every move is choreographed to ensure she doesn't hurt herself. Learning how to use her hands again also redefined her relationship with herself and her art creation. At this point, her body is no longer an abstract idea. She says, "The body has been a subject in my work since the 80s, but now it ' s my body. "
The Leaping Main theme: Innovation of Media and Color in the New Works
Early in her recovery, Pondick realized that she needed to find a way to make sculpture without the commutes to the foundry and long and taxing days there that casting steel requires. In 2013, she stopped casting in metal and began to discover the techniques——epoxy——can be shaped like clay and dries like stone . Once it has dried, she can add to or carve it until it reaches her ideal state; Acrylic is for bases and enclosures. She has also figured out how to join these materials seamlessly. A conservator researches the properties of her materials and advises her on their use.
Color also enhances the informality and approachability of Pondick' s new work. Her palette begins with the primary hues for photographic printing - magenta, cyan, and yellow - to which she adds green, blue, black, and white. Using these " impure " colors, as opposed to the more familiar primaries (red, yellow, blue), immediately shifts expectations. Pondick explores the transformation of color tone in resin and acrylic passionately; it further forms the feature and the display of the color itself.
The Newborn of Rhythm: The Space and Tension in Pondick’s New Works
She wants her art to create its own sense of place. It means that a work creates its own particular world, apart from the room in which it is shown, a fantastic world that viewers can intoxicate in it. Take Sitting Yellow as example, it is planted on a beautifully proportioned base, which is integral to the piece and becomes its territory. As you walk around the strange and oddly sculpture, it looks like a suffered person, but when seen from the back, it becomes a poor- looking toddler. That recognition evokes a sympathy that overcomes the shock of the creature ' s mutant form.
The emotional qualities elicited by the new objects are darker in tone than in Pondick ' s earlier work, no doubt due to the physical difficulties she has faced in recent years. In Upside Down Yellow Green (2018), a human head with a golden sheen about the face and an ominous plug in place of its neck, hangs upside down from an aqua rectangle in what appears to be liquid. It could be a specimen in formaldehyde, but it seems likely that death came through more nefarious means. Pondick creates sense like moody crime atmosphere in drama work.
In Orange Pink Green Grey (2015- 18), a life - size pink head sits directly in front of an orange head on a watery aqua base; behind the orange head is its tiny froglike body. These mutant heterogeneous outcome that are too close to human, are like the world of nightmares we are living in. All of us are trapped in our bodies, limited by physical constraints that could become disabling at any moment. This is a hard fact that most of us are fortunate enough not to have to face. However, Pondick has confronted it directly and art is her response to never compromise.
Congrats to Rona Pondick for Winning the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Art Purchase Program
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The Academy’s purchase program began in 1946 to place the work of talented, living American artists in museums across the country. Since the inauguration of this program, the Academy has spent nearly $5 million to purchase over 1200 works of art.
Nunu Fine Art is very honored to be able to present Rona Pondick’s sculptures in art fair, Taipei Dangdai, took p lace in the beginning of this year. Pondick’s winning work in the 2020 Art Purchase Program is currently on display in the “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts”, and will be shown in the “Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards”, which opens in late May.
Rona Pondick’s work, Head in Tree, is Exhibited in Nasher Sculpture Center
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Head in Tree, 2006-2008, Stainless Steel, 266.7 x 106.7 x 94 cm｜105 x 42 x 37 inches, Antonio Homem, Antonio Homem, Promised gift to the Nasher Sculpture Center
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Rona Pondick was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. Since 1984 she has had many solo exhibitions of her work in museums and galleries internationally. Her sculptures have been included in over 200 group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of many institutions worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Centre Pompidou (Paris) and others. One of her work, Head in Tree in 2006-2008, is exhibited by the Nasher Sculpture Center, US recently. The Nasher Sculpture Center located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District, and is one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculptures in the world where featuring more than 300 masterpieces by Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Hepworth, Kelly, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, Serra and more.
Rona Pondick's Selected Works Will Be Exhibited by American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Image Credit: Rona Pondick's official website
The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers. Early members include famous impressionist painter William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, writer Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and many more. The Academy seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts by administering over 70 awards and prizes, exhibiting art and manuscripts, funding performances of new works of musical theater, and purchasing artwork for donation to museums across the country.
From March 5 through Sunday, April 5, 2020, paintings, sculptures, video, photographs, and works on paper by 28 contemporary artists will be exhibited in the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace. The Exhibiting artists were chosen from over 150 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy. Nunu Fine Art’s represented artist Rona Pondick is very honored to be among the 28 artists. Besides catching the sight of the artist’s desires of pursuing the knowledge and understanding the universe, the visitors may also experience the experimental courage and the charming variety in her sculpture.
Rona Pondick's Work, Dog, is Exhibited in Remai Modern
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Remai Modern are going to present The Sonnabend Collection on 5th October, 2019 to 22nd March, 2020. Developed through the vision of influential art dealer Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) her husband Michael Sonnabend (1900-2001), and their adopted son Antonio Homem, the Collection is among the most significant private holdings of modern and contemporary art in the world.
Through their galleries in Paris and New York, the Sonnabends established an international presence, fostering creative exchanges and new audiences for American artists in Europe and vice versa. Often, they championed artists early in their careers. They anticipated and influenced developments in art including Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Nouveau Réalisme, Arte Povera, Neo-Expressionism, Neo-Geo, Photo Conceptualism and beyond. Above all, they believed deeply in artists.
The Sonnabend Collection at Remai Modern features over 100 works by 67 artists. Including the American artist, Rona Pondick, who once collaborated with Nunu Fine Art. Her work, "Dog" will be exhibited on the show. The Sonnabend Collection will exhibit artworks that spans seven decades of artistic production. This will be the Collection's first exposure in Canada, and its most comprehensive presentation to date in North America.
Rona Pondick's〈Granite Bed〉 is in permanent collection at Yale University
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Rona Pondick who is expected to have an exhibition in Nunu Fine. Her work was invited by the Yale University New Haven Campus in Connecticut and will be permanently on display in the campus. This piece is located just two blocks away from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library which features a Noguchi Sculpture Garden, and not far from Alexander Calder's Gallows and Lollipops.
In this work, Rona fills the entire surface with the handwritten text "I want" to express human pursuit of desire: "Wanting" is a fundamental wish, a desire that propels us in life. Our wanting is drawn from both deep and shallow emotions, and desires, that exerts a profound influence on all facets of human behavior. I want what? Another person? To eat? Money? Power?........ To want is the foundation; the building block of human emotions. But once the words "I want" are taken out of context, how do we attach meaning to them? You think you know what wanting is. But do we? What are the objects of desire? What is desire itself?” The dedication for the building and sculpture will take place on September 20th, 2018. When it's finished, Nunu Fine Art’s friends are welcome to visit.
羅娜・龐迪克，〈花崗岩床〉，1998，黑色印度花崗岩，92.71 x 91.44 x 670.56 cm
Rona Pondick, 〈Granite Bed〉, 1998, Black Indian granite, 36.5 x 36 x 264"