Matthew Ronay: The Crack, the Swell, an Earth, an Ode

Matthew Ronay is a New York-based artist who creates vibrant, small-scale wooden sculptures that blend organic and fantastical elements. His work explores the primacy of the handmade object and incorporates influences from a range of artists and scientists throughout history. This monograph showcases his sculptures in extensive detail, providing a deeper understanding of his artistic process.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2022
Publisher: Gregory Miller & Company

From a prominent New York sculptor, comes a sensual and psychedelic sculpture that celebrates the handmade object's primacy. Matthew Ronay, a New York-based artist born in 1976, creates vibrant, small-scale wooden sculptures that draw inspiration from a diverse range of sources. These include flora and fauna from land and sea, human anatomy, and water systems. In his colorful array of soft-curved and intricately honed formations, Ronay also explores fantastical architectures, such as gateways and towers. By seamlessly blending vocabularies of modernist abstraction and ritualistic objects, Ronay's sculptures and enigmatic installations convey the utmost importance of the handcrafted piece. His inspirations span a centuries-long thread of artists and scientists, from the 18th century to the present, whose works either consciously or unconsciously reflect natural phenomena. Furthermore, Ronay suggests that inherited memories of life's genesis and evolution may be recaptured in abstract works of sculpture and painting. This monograph, produced in conjunction with his exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, offers an extensive exploration of Ronay's sensual and psychedelic sculptures through photographs and installation views.

Weight: 1565g
Dimension: 295 x 226 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781941366455