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Esther
Solondz's mixed media works range from individual
portraits achieved with rust on fabric to large installations
incorporating a range of materials such as wax, water, and
salt.
Her work examines relationships between
the past and the present and between our ordinary plane of
existence and others.
Reviewing her 2005 exhibition in the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid
wrote, "You may feel an eerie chill as you walk through Esther
Solondz's new installation...For Solondz, it's another eloquent riff
on loss and transience, anchored in her ever-deepening engagement
with her materials."
In November 2006, Solondz began a major public project in conjunction with Boston University. Installed in the university's Metcalf Plaza, The Evolution of Darwin presents "rust portraits" of Charles Darwin and other subsequent evolutionary biologists achieved through the arrangement of iron filings, which, covered with salt and exposed to precipitation, rust, transferring an image onto concrete surfaces in this public space.
"I'm very interested in evolutionary biology, and it seemed that the way the pieces evolved was a perfect metaphor for natural selection," Solondz says. "The whole thing is one large natural process."
Solondz's work is in the collections of the
Harvard University Art Museums, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture
Park, and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
View The Evolution of Darwin >>
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| 2007 mud on felt 15x12" |
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