Rona Pondick

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Full Name	Rona Pondick
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Apr 18, 1952(1952-04-18)
Age	72
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

Rona Pondick Biography

Rona Pondick is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on April 18, 1952 in Brooklyn, United States. Rona Pondick, born April 18, 1952, is an American sculptor. She lives in New York City and works there. Pondick has been interested in the use of the language of the body to create sculptures, both literally and metaphorically, since 1977, when she began her career. Her constant concern has been exploring the use of different materials. This is a consistent theme that runs through her work, from the beginning to the present.

In the mid 1980s Pondick started to exhibit in galleries, museums and other venues. Since then her sculptures and site-specific installations are featured in many exhibitions around the globe. There are two periods to her work: the early work was based on fragments of the human body and the later work is centered around hybrid sculptures that combine forms from nature, such as flora or fauna.

Beginning in 1998, Pondick began to make sculptures that merged parts of animals and flora with those of her own body, primarily casting them in bronze or stainless steel. Pondick merged traditional hand modeling with computer technology in order to create these hybrid sculptures, which incorporate depictions of her own head and hands. For example, in her first work in the series, Dog (1998-2001), she combined a human head and hands with the body of a dog, creating a sphinx-like figure. Other human-animal hybrids include Cat, Otter, Muskrat. Monkeys, and Ram’s Head. As Pondick stated, “I use the animal form because it is recognizable and holds its scale no matter where you put it.”

In 2018, Lynn Zelevansky wrote, “Color … enhances the informality and approachability of Pondick’s new work. Each object is named for the colors it contains. Her palette begins with the primary hues for photographic printing—magenta, cyan, and yellow—to which she adds green, blue, black, and white. Made from resin, acrylic, and an epoxy modeling compound…they are each partly translucent and in places almost evanescent, changing as the light changes and as viewers move around them… The addition of color and the new materials significantly alter the visual impact and emotional tenor of Pondick’s art.”

Pondick began her work in the 1980s with fragments that invoked the body. This included shoes and baby bottles. She also used “a quirky vocabulary [of anatomical parts] and body-related objects that had some Louise Bourgeois’ oddity and near surrealism and Philip Guston’s poignant and ambiguous symbolism.” Her early provocative works include scatological references to bodily assemblages. Critics have interpreted her early work in many ways. It was interpreted as a feminist critique Freudian sexuality theories, as expressions of infantile and juvenile desire, and as “Freudian vaudeville acts designed for you to laugh until your throat feels caught.”

Rona Pondick Net Worth

Rona Pondick is one of the richest Sculptor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rona Pondick 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rona Pondick was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Queens College in New York in 1973. In 1977, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. There, she studied sculpture under David Von Schlegell (an American sculptor) and also with Richard Serra who was a visiting artist in that program.

The earliest sculptures she made are clearly scatalogical. Pondick created sculptures of beds from the late 1980s through the early 1990s using pillows, cloth and wood. Some were even adorned with baby bottles with rope.

In 1995, Pondick made her first sculpture of a tree using fruit scattered on the ground that incorporated human teeth. Her first tree/human hybrid sculpture incorporated the artist’s miniaturized head as buds in the tree branches, using aluminum, bronze, and stainless steel. Her first tree/human hybrid sculpture was Pussy Willow Tree in 2001, commissioned by Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon in Annecy, France. This was followed by Cranbrook Art Museum’s commission of Crimson Queen Maple in 2003, and by Head in Tree, commissioned by Sonsbeek International in 2008 and installed in the center of a pond.

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