Kate Gonda’s conceptual sculpture practice weaves raw and repetitive material motifs with associative objects to address tenuous ironies between human vulnerability and the oppressive systems that constrain it. She marries material to concept through recurring shapes, making methods, and physical tension or notions of game.
Her sculptures elicit contemplation on labor, domesticity, feminism, and societal and economic erosion within capitalism and in our current political climate. With a touch of absurdity, Gonda’s sculptures oscillate between satirical and sincere while containing dual meanings, multiple truths, and clever cultural critique. Gonda received a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and lives and works in Denver, Colorado.