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Rona Pondick at Marc Straus Gallery

Rona Pondick’s seductively shiny stainless-steel sculptures, featuring her own head on human/animal hybrid creatures, have been shown worldwide; now, she’s debuting the next step in her career with glowing resin and acrylic sculptures at Marc Straus Gallery on the Lower East Side.  After health problems forced Pondick to give up foundry work, she began encasing her visage in blocks of resin, creating the suggestion that some magic has temporarily paused the complicated processes within each head.  (On view through Dec 16th).

Rona Pondick, Encased Yellow, pigmented resin and acrylic, 10 1/16 x 11 3/8 x 11 ½ inches, 2015-2017.

Rona Pondick at Sonnabend Gallery

It comes as no surprise that Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ is a favorite of New York artist Rona Pondick, whose new sculptures at Chelsea’s Sonnabend Gallery continue her trademark combination of her own head and other cast body parts with plant or animal bodies.  Here, a wallaby’s stylized, beautiful form merges with a drooping hand and hanging head, suggesting a dragging weight. (Through April 27th).  

Rona Pondick, Wallaby, stainless steel, 2007-12.