Petah Coyne Honored with 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award

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On January 18, the International Sculpture Center in New York honored Petah Coyne and Melvin Edwards with its 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards.

Established in 1960, the Center promotes the creation and critical understanding of sculpture through multiple initiatives. Its members include artists, art writers, dealers, educators, and collectors.



Kaspar Bonnén featured in group exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.

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Last fall, the group exhibition THE ARTISTS’ COPENHAGEN focused on various representations of Copenhagen as seen through the eyes of artists in a wide selection of media, formats, and materials. The works provided space for reflection and alternative experiences of known as well as unknown places in the city, which was the World Capital of Architecture in 2023.

German artist Franziska Fennert presented in PASCAMASA at the National Gallery of Indonesia.

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German artist Franziska Fennert participated in the group exhibition ”PASCAMASA,“ a contemporary Indonesian art exhibition curated by significant local curators, at the National Gallery of Indonesia, until January 21, 2024.

The group exhibition ”PASCAMASA“ presents themes that reflect the recent developments in cultural discourse under the influence of ’post‘ era issues. The group exhibition will include curator and artist discussions, as well as workshops and other activities. In this exhibition, Fennert focuses on the conscious avoidance of dominance includes a distinct empowerment to reflect on one’s own behavior and the intended radius of impact.

Indonesian well-known media Kompas provided an extensive coverage of the group exhibition “PASCAMASA,” featuring German artist Franziska Fennert. The article mentioned several new works by Franziska, such as “Ancestral Contemplation” and “Ancestor Gazing.” Through sculptures and installation artworks, she advocates for the importance of a circular economy, once again revealing her goal of conducting a global ecological introspection.

Read full article on Kompas: https://www.kompas.id/baca/english/2024/01/06/en-monumen-kegagalan-manusia

More information for “PASCAMASA”: https://gni.kemdikbud.go.id/kunjungi-kami/kunjungan-perorangan/31

Petah Coyne featured in THE SKY'S THE LIMIT, NMWA

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THE SKY'S THE LIMIT, the inaugural group exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, after a two-year building closure, features works by Petah Coyne and 12 other contemporary artists. Coyne's Untitled #1458 (Marguerite Duras), Untitled #1273, and Untitled #1563, are on display in this celebration of sculptural scale and materiality.  

In an interview with Cultured Magazine, Petah Coyne discussed her artwork Untitled #1458 (Marguerite Duras) (image 2-3), “I was told by a very special Canadian curator that the women in French Canada use Duras’s name as a verb when they wish to encourage one another to be strong and tough enough to get through difficult situations. I loved this idea almost as much as I loved her writing. Knowing her strength and the verb “duras” has helped me through the pandemic and many other difficult times.”

Read full interview on Cultured Magazine: https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/10/23/female-sculpture-national-womens-museum

More information for "The Sky's the Limit": https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/the-skys-the-limit/

 

Petah Coyne on view now at the State Gallery of Art, Poland

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Three artworks by Petah Coyne are currently on view until October 22 at the State Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland. The pieces—"Untitled #1396 (Catherine the Great)," "Untitled #1397 (Elena Ferrante)," and "Untitled #1398 (Empress Dowager Cixi)”—are meticulously crafted in hand-blown glass, honoring significant female figures and their impact.

The Glasstress project, launched in 2009 as an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale, showcased Coyne's glass installation "The Feminine" in 2015 satellite exhibition. The project addresses critical issues such as environmental degradation, pandemics, colonialism, feminism and societal structures, while interpreting and expressing diverse perspectives through the medium of glass.

New York-Based Artist Rona Pondick's Works Added to Museum Collections

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Muskrat (2002-05) is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago, Illinois

Milkman (1989) and Sourballs  (1995) are in the collection of the Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Red Platter (21) (1994) and Mouth #66 are in the collection of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

"Tilted Yellow" by Rona Pondick displayed at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA

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Rona pondick, Tilted Yellow, 2014-2018
, Pigmented resin and acrylic, 8 x 22 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches (20.3 x 56.2 x 56.2 cm) 

Rona Pondick's sculpture "Tilted Yellow" is currently on view, till Aug 27, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, showcasing the museum's latest contemporary acquisitions. The exhibition also includes works by Holly Coulis, Julia Wachtel, Ingrid Calame.

Since 2013 and firstly shown in 2018, Pondick turned her focus from stainless steel to color along with resin and acrylic as new materials for her ongoing sculptural explorations into metamorphosis. "Tilted Yellow" (2014-2018) marks one of her first works using them.
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With processes involving hand modeling, carving, casting, and 3D computer scanning, "Tilted Yellow" presents a translucent, illuminating, and bizarrely beautiful yellow casting of her own head, evoking a self-portrait, slumber, or introspection—a testament to Pondick's unwavering determination to push the boundaries of materials and identities.

Celebrated North-Irish Artist Rodney Dickson’s Works Collected by Hugh Lane Gallery

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Courtesy of the artist

Contemporary painter Rodney Dickson was born in Northern Ireland in 1956. Exploring the aftermath of wars in earlier works, Dickson was later known for his abstract paintings. Through repeated stacking and scraping of oil paints, he creates vivid and thick colors and textures, revealing strong emotions in the artworks. Recently, his two representative oil paintings, Kill 'em all and Let Buddah sort 'em out (2004-2007) and Number 6 (2009), were collected by Hugh Lane Gallery, a leading modern art museum in Ireland since its founding in 1908. The paintings are also on view at the "New Acquisitions" exhibition until August 30, 2023.

5 sculptures and one work on paper by Rona Pondick have entered the Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York

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pigmented resin and acrylic，14.5 x 20 x 21.5 cm｜5.7 x 7.9 x 8.5 inches (Courtesy of the artist)

The artwork by American artist Rona Pondick has become a part of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's collection in New York. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located at Cornell University, was established in 1973. Since its inception, the museum has welcomed visitors free of charge. It continually strives to fulfill its cultural and educational responsibility by serving a broad and diverse audience.

Artist Maya Hewitt's Heartbeats Collected by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts

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oil and acrylic on canvas，152.5 x 152.5 cm｜60 x 60 inches（Courtesy of the artist）

We pleased to announce the news that artist Maya Hewitt’s Heartbeats has been included in the permanent collection of the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. 

Maya Hewitt's paintings often possess a special atmosphere of tranquility and alienation. Time and space condense on the canvas with a scene between illusion and reality. She sets a unique balance between surrealism painting and urban realism, composing harmonious dream space with illogical objects.  

In Heartbeats, Hewitt appropriates Utagawa Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e painting Hodogaya Station and Shinkame Bridge as if a set stage. However, Hewitt uses different perspectives, creating an entrance to a space of another dimension. With similar color tones and a certain degree of flatness, the integration of the scene allows the three mothers in the painting to have a self-evident emotional connection with the remote city of Edo period. 

Dutch Artist Kees Goudzwaard’s Solo Exhibition Opens at Collectie de Groen

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Exhibition Space (Photo: Ivonne Zijp, courtesy of Collectie de Groen)

During his solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art in this autumn, the works of Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard were well-received among Taiwanese audience. His next solo exhibition will open at Collectie de Groen from Jan. 14 to Apr. 16.

Collectie de Groen is an important private collection in the Netherland, established by collectors and artists Marjolein de Groen and Peter Jordaan. In 2010, they decided to make art collection their mission and currently have hundreds of works in their collection. The collection is now housed in the historical building of a former-bank.

The exhibition includes works of various media such as silkscreen printing, risograph, and oil painting. The exhibition also encompasses earlier works such as Circle (1990) and new works such as Gaps and Dots (2022), showcasing the artistic sparkles and subtlety in Kees Goudzwaard’s artistic creation.

Rona Pondick’s Monkeys and Head in Tree on View at Belvedere Museum

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American artist Rona Pondick’s metal sculptural work Monkeys was on display in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere since September. Monkeys, created during 1998-2001, shows several monkeys playing around, while some body parts appear in human forms. The hybrid form of human and monkey reveals suffering among playfulness, demonstrating the artist’s artistic style during this creative period.

In the meantime, Rona Pondick’s Head in Tree is also included in the exhibition Grow: The Tree in Art at the Lower Belvedere. The exhibition is curated by art historian and curator Miroslav Haľák, focusing artworks related to trees to demonstrate the complex connection between human beings and the ecology as well as the various roles trees play in it. Pondick’s Head in Tree, created during 2006-2008, combines the tree form and a human head cast from the artist’s own. It responds to the human-tree hybrid form in art and mythologies, and the complicated relationship between human subjects and flora and fauna in the natural world.

On the exhibition opening on Sept. 22, over 600 VIP guests gathered in the Marble Hall where Pondick’s Head in Tree was on display, enjoying the artist’s artistic creation.

Photo: Johannes Stoll

Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides Series on View at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders

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Installation view of Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides series (Courtesy of the artist)

Renowned German contemporary artist Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides series is currently on view in the exhibition, Bibliomania: The Book in the Art, at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Germany. The exhibition incorporates artworks of multiple forms and media such as painting, drawing, photography, film, installation, and artist’s book, exploring the importance of the paper-based medium of “book” in this age of digital media, as well as rethinking and recreating the role “book” plays in contemporary societies.

 The Travel Guides series marks the beginning of Zimmermann’s use of epoxy. Graduated from art school and started creating conceptual art in the 1980s, Zimmermann imitates and enlarges book covers to challenge the interaction between one’s perceptions and feelings, including one’s experience of interpreting these paradoxical artworks. This series also became the first milestone in Peter Zimmermann’s career as a professional artist.

Rona Pondick’s “Wallaby” and “Cat” on View at Nassau County Museum of Art

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Rona Pondick 作品〈小袋鼠〉（Wallaby）、〈貓〉（Cat）於拿騷美術館展出（照片由藝術家提供）

Leading American contemporary artist Rona Pondick, is scheduled to have her sculpture works exhibited at four major art institutions across the US and Europe in the latter half of 2022. The first exhibition will be “Other Worlds Than This: The Supernatural” in Art at the Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, in which her two sculptural works “Wallaby” and “Cat” joins a number of artworks related to the otherworldly possibilities. The artist is also giving a talk on her artistic career since the mid-1980s.

American artist Rona Pondick will exhibit in five major art institutions in the second half of the 2022

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American leading artist Rona Pondick will exhibits her early works "Monkeys", "Head in Tree" in Lower Belvedere and Upper Belvedere, two of the most privilege art space in Austria. The work "Wallaby" will be in "The Supernatural in Art" group exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. From July 23 to November 6th, 2022. Pondick's recent development "Color Sculptures" has been drawing enormous attention in the contemporary scene. Both Zuckerman Museum of Art in Georgia and Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY will include her color sculptures in both museums exhibitions.

Northern European artist Siri Kollandsrud joins the group show “to– en ny era” at Dunkers, Sweden

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Siri Kollandsrud joins the group show “to – en ny era” at Dunkers in Sweden. The exhibition is to explore the rebirth era after the pandemic and survey how human culture and art have been impacted. Kollandsrud's creative inspiration originatles from the observation of life visually and spiritually, while using her boundless vision to navigate the new world. Her works in this group show define the new era of human life.

Rona Pondick Added to Collection of “Walker Art Center”

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“Wallaby” had recently been collected by Walker Art Center, one of the most-visited modem and contemporary art muscums in the United States. Walker Art Center is once lumber baron T. B. Walker's private collecti tion. Since he invited the public to visit his collection in 1879, it evolved into the Walker Art Center. This work will be joining other works by top artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Yoko Ono, and Kara Walker in this collection.

Hsu Che-Yu: Hong Kong M+ Museum Collection

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Focusing on the world’s foremost collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture, M+ Museum will be opened this November. M+ has been collecting works from artists, designers, and architects since 2012. Though rooted in Asia, its collection examines from a global perspective and aims to discover and record diverse contemporary cultures and techniques. Recently, M+ has included Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu's “Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun” into its collection. Inspired by writer Huang Guo-Jun’s work Microphone Test, awards-winning artist Hsu Che-Yu uses fiction in place of reality to discuss death and collective memories in this work. 

Kao Ya-Ting Features at Chiayi Art Museum

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Chiayi Art Museum’s current exhibition “A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest” is curated by Tsai, Ming-Chun, and Chen, Hsiang-Wen, aims to look back at the history and discuss the relationship between forests and cities. Chen, Hsiang-Wen said, “We can see how artists see the forest industry, for example, through their thought of how a log becomes a timber or issues regarding deforestation in Taiwan.” Featured in this exhibition, Kao Ya-Ting had used the renowned sea of clouds in Alishan as the theme and utilized various image materials for “Sea of Clouds in Alishan.” Through the process of repainting oil on canvas and collaging the image of the sea of clouds, Kao used her restrained contours and colors to create the sea of clouds in her eyes and the cultural context contained in the forest.

Congrats to Jui-Chien Hsu for exhibiting at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taiwan

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Taiwanese artist Jui-Chien Hsu’s works are currently presented at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art group exhibition “The Poetic Realm,” which “poetic” indicates the way of perceiving the world, and the process of dealing with things by its flexibility. In Jui-Chien Hsu’s featured works, the artist transforms and conducts approachable materials, in search of the focus and release of the energy generated by these materials and body movements, inquiring about the relationship of the substance and action.