Bound Angel (side view of the NDR cover image). PPOW Gallery exhibition installation 2022. found figurines, lamps, candles, string & rope, wedding gowns (tablecloth), extension cords, oval table, 66in high x 68in wide x 192in long. 

Bound Angel, features found objects in the shape of female angels, including figurines of small girls, the Virgin Mary, classical and pornographic nudes, snow globes, candle holders, nightlights, lamps, soap dispensers, and more. Organized on a large oval dining table, covered in a tablecloth of used wedding dresses, the entire sculpture forms the shape of a bound and faceless bride. Beginning with the lamp cords, many of the figurines have been bound emphasizing societal constants marketed to and placed on women.

Nude II mugs, pantyhose, mannequin, pedestal, 86in high × 44in across, 2022.

In this piece a sexualized female mannequin's body is smothered with kitsch ‘boob’ mugs, bound to each other with pantyhose, contemplating commodified ideas of female objectification.

Functional Woman (Size: 70in high x 62in wide x 80in deep), found utilitarian objects in the form of women or women’s body parts, dresser, fabric & table. 2016.

This sculpture is composed of found objects that are functional and in the form of women or women’s body parts. These objects are assembled together to form the shape of a woman.

Portia Munson is a visual artist working in a wide range of media, focusing primarily on environmental and cultural themes seen from a feminist perspective. Recent solo exhibitions include; The Pink Bedroom, Museum of Sex, NYC (2023); Bound Angel, PPOW, NYC (2022); Flood, Art Omi, Ghent, NY (2022) and Memento Mori, Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY (2022). Currently The Garden, a large scale installation, is on view at 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR. Some recent group exhibitions include; Rituals of Devotion, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Finders Keepers, VOSP Projects, Greenport, NY; Women’s Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY; Cross Pollination, Olana, Hudson, NY; Dime Store Alchemy, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC. Public works include Pink Projects, Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, NYC; MTA Arts for Transit, Bryant Park, NYC; & a permanent MTA Arts for Transit installation, Brooklyn, NY. Portia Munson has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Dazed, VICE/Creators Project, and Bust Magazine among others. Residencies include Civitella Ranieri, Italy; MacDowell, Peterborough, NH; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. Munson was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019. Portia Munson lives and works in Catskill, NY. She has been represented by PPOW Gallery in New York since 2005.