Rona Pondick

I recently came across Rona Pondick's work in my Gender and the Body class as she deals with the feminist critique of Freudian theories of sexuality.  She is an american sculptor who studied under Richard Serra and went to Yale to get her MFA.  She deals with a wide range of imagery including teeth, trees, human/animal hybrids, beds, etc.  You can see all of her work over at her website. 

Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby is an artist working in Los Angeles.  He works in a wide range of media including ceramics, sculpture, painting, and video.  Being inspired by the graffiti culture, his work seeks to confront the psychological space where individual expression meets social constructs.  

Lesley Dill: MIAMI 2013

This is the blackbird dress that I worked on all summer with Lesley Dill and other interns.  

A Zachary Allen and Frances Russell exchange

In order to practice the skills that we had been learning, Zach and I decided to have an exchange after the process was over.  In exchange for him making me an art cabinet out of nogal, walnut, and metal (complete with hand carved handles),  I created a handwoven (size full) merino and raw silk blanket.

Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill's work explores the relationship between the body and language.  She uses all different materials such as hair, fiber, bronze, wood, and paper to explore the idea of sculpture.  She is constantly redefining her work by pushing new methods of working such as performance art. Her studio is located in Brooklyn and ladies and gentlemen I am going to be working there too this summer. Couldn't be more exciting.  To see more of her work, visit her website, lesleydill.com.

Nene Humphrey

 Nene Humphrey is an artist who currently works out of her studio in Brooklyn, NY.  In her work Plain Sense of Things and Circling the Center she explores the psychological process of mourning and its physiological index in the mourner's brain.  Following the death of her husband, she has been very interested in recording brain activity in the part of the brain where emotions reside. Through drawing, media installation, braiding, and other fibrous processes, she successfully explores the idea of mourning through her artwork.  

Make sure to look at more of these series on her current website.

OR some of her older work from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s here on artnet.

I have the lovely opportunity of getting to work in her studio this summer and be included in her process and I could not be more excited to work for such a talented and driven lady.

Petah Coyne

Petah Coyne's earlier works make me woozy. 

mmhmmmm. 

 Look at more of her recent work here.