Experience a surreal world in this 24-foot long sculpture. Brooklyn-based artist Matthew Ronay combines vivid wood sculptures, poetry, biology, and nature into an otherworldly experience. The Crack, the Swell, an Earth, an Ode presents chromatic, handmade wood sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Matthew Ronay. His work suggests unearthly landscapes with futuristic architectures and bodily processes like digestion and aging.
Reading The Crack from the vantage point of the gallery entrance, one encounters from left to right shapes evocative of tree groves, sea creatures, hands and fingers, breasts, human profiles, an ovum being penetrated by a sperm, a pair of lungs within the suggestion of a body, caverns with stalactites, coral, tentacles, and tubes, all of them seemingly connected by an intricate vascular system pumping flows of tangerine-colored energy and warmth outward to the sculpture’s extremities.
Copyright: Nasher Sculpture Center
