Comprised of eight new sculptures, fashioned in polychromed basswood, they are meticulously hand carved and dyed with a phosphorescent palette. Manifesting a decades-long interest in phenomenology, the works are derived from Ronay’s interactions with his subconscious, which reflect myriad impressions, ranging from the legacy of abstract art and ritualistic habits to the relationship between the body and other organic forms.

Ronay invests the sculptures with rhythmic textures and shapes that seem to have grown autonomously. While his early works concerned themselves with graphic imagery and figurative gestures, the artist’s most recent bodies of work reveal an appreciation for abstracting botanical and aquatic life and physics. In Ronay’s early practice, humor and a sharp question of authority was often present. In his latest works, the question of power appears to be repositioned on objecthood, material culture and mass production.

Ronay begins each work by drawing, an act that softens the membrane between the conscious mind and what lies beneath it. While essentially abstract, the works often conjure associations of reproduction and degradation. They form a call and response, as appendages grow, and orifices recede.