Esther Solondz
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 2013 exhibition in the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid wrote, "Everything here appears to droop and cave in. At the same time, the art glimmers like diamonds and beckons like cupcakes. It looks fragile and on the verge of dissolution, yet has the feeling of eternity about it. Solondz powerfully stirs up vanquished hope and lingering fear with this installation of discrete pieces. Imagine if she could create a structure, large enough to walk inside, of wire, and dewdrops, and decay."
Solondz's work is in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
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Esther Solondz
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 2013 exhibition in the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid wrote, "Everything here appears to droop and cave in. At the same time, the art glimmers like diamonds and beckons like cupcakes. It looks fragile and on the verge of dissolution, yet has the feeling of eternity about it. Solondz powerfully stirs up vanquished hope and lingering fear with this installation of discrete pieces. Imagine if she could create a structure, large enough to walk inside, of wire, and dewdrops, and decay."
Solondz's work is in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.