Rona Pondick Sculptor

Female artist and sculptor Rona Pondick mixes animal body parts with her own to create hybrid sculptures which unite the emotional and the intellectual, the sublime and the grotesque. On first viewing, you find it disgusting, but then you can't get enough of it. Pondick has been unnerving audiences since the 1980s with her eccentric, unnerving sculpture. She explored figurative work when abstraction was de rigueur, she used dirt and found objects when minimalism was popular.

The New York born artist emerged, in 1977, from the Yale School of Art, where she studied sculpture with Richard Serra, among others. She distinguished herself early on with an unusual array of anatomical parts and body-related objects that had some of Louise Bourgeois's oddity and near-surrealism and Philip Guston's ambiguous symbolism.