LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS.- The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park presents "Rona Pondick: New Work," on view through May 11, 2003. The sixth annual solo exhibition on DeCordova’s Sculpture Terrace features a new and exciting body of work by Rona Pondick, one of the most important and influential sculptors of the last decade. Pondick came to international prominence in the early 1990s with surreal works that incorporated eccentric and evocative materials, and a visceral emphasis on body parts, fluids, and processes. Her new sculptures, while they still deal with the body, are a stunning departure. Pondick now works in cast metals to produce objects that seamlessly morph parts of her own anatomy onto the bodies of animals: a cougar, a marmot, a dog, a fox, and an aggressive pack of monkeys. To create these bizarre beings-which address self-portraiture, the animal nature of the human, and anxieties about genetic engineering-the artist uses a combination of traditional sculptural modeling and casting with computer-assisted rapid-prototyping technology. Pondick’s animals, both mythological and futuristic, will occupy both the Sculpture and Roof Terraces.



Rona Pondick lives and works in New York City. She was featured in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and has since exhibited her work in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Pondick is represented in New York by Sonnabend Gallery, in Paris by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, and in Boston by the Howard Yezerski Gallery.