Velvet Bed
Modern and Contemporary Art
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Velvet Bed
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Rona Pondick
American, born 1952
American, born 1952
Date
1988
Medium
Wood, cast bronze, velvet, polyester stuffing
Accession #
1989.49
Dimensions
Location
Currently Not on View
Description
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.
Credit
Purchase with funds from the Lannan FoundationCheck This Out
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Untitled,
Untitled
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Untitled (Drinker),
Untitled (Drinker)
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Untitled (Footed Form),
Untitled (Footed Form)
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Desk from the SC Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI,
Desk from the SC Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI