New York Sonnabend Gallery When Rona Pondick’s sculptural installations first appeared in the mid-1980s, their raw expression of abjection, feminist rage, infantile greed, and intimations of mortality was startling. Roughly made, her unsettling works were ambivalent, psychological, and completely uncanny: elongated lead beds, beds protruding baby bottles like teats, weird agglomerations of children’s shoes and
December 2013
“One of a Kind: Unique Artist’s Books”
New York AC Institute Heide Hatry, a German artist and former antiquarian bookseller, recently assembled a collection of contemporary incarnations of the book—from ancient text to high-tech video—and installed her selections in a library-like setting at AC Institute in Chelsea.
Miroslaw Balka
New York Gladstone Gallery Miroslaw Balka’s 2 x (350 x 300 x 300), 36 x 36 x 29 / The Order of Things—a large-scale, welded sculpture of weathering steel—is an obverse rhomboid, split into two equal sections with darkened water pouring into each half.
Anna Sew Hoy
Venice, California Very Small Fires Gallery Anna Sew Hoy’s work has a lot to do: it refers to the politics of display and consumer culture, makes note of the DIY aspect of art-making, and comments on personal lifestyle.
