Installation view, Matthew Ronay: Cold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in Season;, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2026
Matthew Ronay’s *Cold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in Season* presents more than thirty carved basswood sculptures as a kind of feast, its title borrowed from Jane Austen. Ceremonial, funerary and imagined forms sit on concrete-like platforms echoing a Frank Lloyd Wright fireplace, along a winding path with no straight route. The show treats making and looking as digestion.
