Mallory Zondag is an award-winning artist and artist educator living in New York. Exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, her work focuses on the natural world and how it relates to the physical body and the human experience. She explores deeply personal and connective universal stories through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting, and stitching, seeking to bring the ephemeral into physical being. The growth and decay of the natural world, the duality of discomfort and attraction we feel towards it, and humanity's place within this dichotomy informs her dimensional textures and sculptural pieces.
Zondag’s work has been exhibited at The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA; The Allentown Art Museum, PA: The International Biennial of Textile Art Scythia, Ukraine; View Arts and Culture Center, Old Forge, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Towson University, MD; Ceres Gallery, NYC, NY; Main Street Studio, Ballston Lake, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; El Museo Del Barrio, NYC, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY: Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; and Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, The Allentown Art Museum, and The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.
Zondag shares her passion for handmade one-of-a-kind textiles through various educational programs and residencies. Many of these programs involve a collaborative element where the entire school works together on a single project. These programs bring an exciting hands-on artistic experience to the students as well as emphasizing community and collaboration through art. As a resident artist in over twenty schools and community organizations she has led her Fiber Living Wall program where hand felted wool living walls are collaboratively created with students of all ages and abilities. The final sculpture finds a permanent home within the school or community space. She has been the recipient of three NY Statewide Capital Regrants for Independent Artists and Community Arts and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Creative Excellence and Support in Pennsylvania. Her work is held in private collections, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Acadia National Park and The Allentown Art Museum. She studied Fashion Design at Pratt Institute (BFA 2016).
Transmissions from the Anthropocene is a solo show commissioned by the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
Anthropocene : The period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth regarded as constituting a distinct geological time interval
Our effect on this planet is total. We have had an irrevocable impact on this living earth and for better or for worse, this is our world. We are a part of the strata now, we have left our indelible footprints in the skin of earth, in plastics and chemical creations, in grand cities and asphalt arteries dug into the land, in trash mountains and spilled oil, in migrations of flora, fauna, fungi and microbes to opposite ends of the globe. We have reshaped this world and continue to build upon its new form.
So what does it mean to be so aware of our past and our future? To know our impact as both a wondrous and destructive species. To know what it can lead to and still live the one finite existence we have on this incredible planet. To be alive requires us to be aware but also present, to find the wonder, here and now in this moment, the moment you are reading these words.
