Museum of Art

Panel Discussion/Conversation: artists Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch, with Phong Bui, and Dan Mills

Reception to follow at the Museum

Rona Pondick has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, including solo exhibitions at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass.; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Groninger Museum, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg; and Worcester Art Museum, Mass., among many others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and in the Venice Biennial.

Robert Feintuch has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions at Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin; CRG Gallery, New York; Miller Yezerski Gallery, Berlin; CRG Gallery, New York; Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; and many others. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass.; Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice; Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice; National Academy Museum, New York; and Portland Museum of Art, Maine. He is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Bates.

Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, former curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1 (2007–2010). He is also the Co-Founder, Publisher/Artistic Director of the monthly journal the Brooklyn Rail, the publishing press Rail Editions, and the Rail Curatorial Projects. Among several foundations and non-for-profits he is involved with, in 2017 he became a trustee of Anthology Film Archives and Studio in a School. Phong conducted an interview with Pondick and Feintuch in conjunction with Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying, which is published in the exhibition catalogue.

Dan Mills is director of the Bates College Museum of Art

Caption:
Rona Pondick, Muskrat, 2002-05, stainless steel, AP, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 10 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches. Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris/Salzburg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles and the artist

Robert Feintuch, Fat Hercules, 2011, polymer emulsion on honeycomb panel, 30 x 22 1/2 inches. Courtesy of Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles and the artist