Velvet Bed
Rona Pondick
American, born 1952

Details
Title
Velvet Bed
Artist/Maker
Rona Pondick (American, born 1952)
Date
1988
Medium
Wood, cast bronze, velvet, polyester stuffing
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with funds from the Lannan Foundation
Accession #
1989.49
On View
Currently not on view
The image of a bed carries many connotations: Sleep, sickness, dreams, sex, comfort, birth, death. In Rona Pondick’s sculpture, velvet pillows evoke the female figure and contrast with the crude cast bronze lump lying on them, which appears phallic or excremental. With this unsettling juxtaposition, Pondick confronts our attitudes toward the basest physical facts of our humanity.
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