LEWISTON — A couple since the 1970s, sculptor Rona Pondick and painter Robert Feintuch share not only a life together but an interest in using images of the body to convey psychologically suggestive meanings in their art.
Now these nationally esteemed artists are also sharing a museum for the first substantial joint exhibition of their work. A gallery talk and reception at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, opens the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition “Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying.”
In the exhibition are nine sculptures and a series of prints by Pondick and 11 paintings by Feintuch, senior lecturer in art and visual culture at Bates. Pondick combines forms from the human body – usually her own – with those from non-human animals to achieve what ARTnews critic Lilly Wei called “abstractions with disquieting psychological reverberations.” Feintuch, meanwhile, situates unheroic older men in dreamlike settings that express vanity, vulnerability, and humor.
On Oct. 27, the pair will lead a conversation about their work at 6 p.m. in the museum, located in the Olin Arts Center at Bates, 75 Russell St. The reception follows in the museum. The exhibition runs through March 23.
Organized by the Bates College Museum of Art, the exhibition made its debut at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art earlier this year.
The Bates museum is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the remaining days. FMI: 207-786-6158 or museum@bates.edu.
For more about the exhibition and the artists, please visit: bates.edu/museum,ronapondick.com and robertfeintuch.com.
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