EventsThe New Social Environment#529

Color, Gesture, and Posture: Rona Pondick

Featuring Pondick and Jessica Holmes

Friday, April 1, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Rona Pondick joins Rail ArTonic editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington.

In this Talk

Visit Rona Pondick, on view at Marc Straus Gallery through April 16, 2022 →

Rona Pondick

Since 1984, American sculptor Rona Pondick has used the language of the body in her work, both literally and metaphorically. She has had 51 solo exhibitions in both museums and galleries internationally. Her sculptures have been included in over 220 group exhibitions, including numerous biennales. Her work can be found in the collections of 49 museums internationally. In the fall of 2022, Pondick’s sculpture will be on view in both a solo and a group exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna: Rona Pondick: Carlone Contemporary at the Upper Belvedere, and Grow: The Tree in Art at the Lower Belvedere. This work will then travel to Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London for a solo exhibition in 2023.

Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes, a co-editor of the Artseen section for the Brooklyn Rail, has also contributed to its pages for over a decade. Her writing has also featured in BOMB, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair Spain, among many others, and has been included in over two dozen exhibition catalogues and monographs. Previously, Jessica worked for the Calder Foundation for nearly two decades, including six years as its Deputy Director.

https://www.jessicaholmeswriter.com

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨