Congrats to Rona Pondick for Winning the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Art Purchase Program

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

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

Exhibition

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

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

狗 | Dog

羅娜．龐迪克 Rona Pondick，黃色不鏽鋼 | Yellow stainless steel，71.12 x 41.91 x 81.28 cm | 28 x 16.5 x 32 inches，1998-2001

圖片來源 Image Credit：雷米現代藝術館 Remai Modern

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

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"