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Ram's Head

Artist Rona Pondick (American, born 1952)
Date2000-2001
MediumYellow-blue stainless steel
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 23 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (25.4 × 59.06 × 16.51 cm)
Credit LineGift of Antonio Homem
Object number2024.29
Edition/State/Proof6/6 + one artist proof
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DescriptionThis sculpture is the life size head of a woman. Curving ram’s horns emerge from either side of the head. The hybrid creature wears earrings, each made of four small heads in diminishing size of the same woman.Exhibition History

Rona Pondick, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, March- April, 2002, unnumbered.

 

Provenance

With the artist, 2001-2009;

Purchased by Antonio Homem, New York, 2009-2023 [1];

His gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.


Notes:

[1]: On loan from Antonio Homem to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016-2023;

Published References

Octavio Zaya, “The Metamorphosis of an Object Maker: An Interview with Rona Pondick,” in Sue-An Van der Zijpp, Peter Weirmaier, and Octavio Zaya, Rona Pondick Works 1986–2001 (New York: Sonnabend Press, 2002): 112-141 (ill., 140-141).

Nancy Princethal. “A Dreamlike Melding of Human, Beast and Steel.” New York Times, 7 April 2002, pp. D33, 35 (ill.)

“Rona Pondick, Sculture.” Tiscali Arte, 27 April 2002 (ill).

Annamaria Sigalotti. “L’arte liminale di Rona Pondick.” Art & Job Magazine, 22 March 2002, p. 32 (ill.)

George Fifield. “Rona Pondick’s Monsters of Fear and Desire.” Sculpture, September 2003, pp. 34-39 (ill.).

Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts, Rona Pondick: Head in Tree and Other Works, 1999-2008, exh. cat. (Llubljana, Slovenia: TR3, 2008): 6, 8-9

Susan Stoops et. al., Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object, exh. cat. (Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2009): 92, 94-95 (ill.)

Copyright© Rona Pondick
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