Cat
Artist: Rona Pondick (American, b. 1952)
Date: 2005
Dimensions:
4 1/2 x 33 x 14 1/8 in. (11.4 x 83.8 x 35.8 cm)
Medium: stainless steel
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by Ruth and Jacob Bloom and with Museum Purchase funds, by exchange
Object number: 2007.30
Label Text:Throughout her career Rona Pondick’s art has straddled the line between seductive and repulsive. Cat, part of her most recent body of work, fuses human features with animal bodies to create a sculpture that achieves a dreamlike melding of human, beast, and steel. Making these hybrid forms allows Pondick to combine traditional sculptural modeling and casting with rapid-prototyping technology (converting 3D computer models into physical models). These bizarre beings address self-portraiture (she casts her own body for the human components), anxieties about genetic engineering, and are even evocative of children’s fairytales in which human and animal are sometimes magically mixed.
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