Dylan Rose Rheingold’s (b. 1997) practice is heavily influenced by the concept of identity as it explores girlhood, memory and nostalgia within American contemporary culture. Building a bridge between abstract figuration & surrealism, her dreamscape paintings act as outlets of self reflection and storytelling; exploring mundane moments in our private lives while reflecting on aspects of intimacy and otherness through a feminine lens.
Her work deals with motifs surrounding various moments from her family archive and uses storytelling to create fictional subjects inspired by her memory and ancestral roots. Her work is a self reflection that fixates around mundane moments and scenes of everyday life in both private and public settings. As the eldest daughter of a first generation American, Japanese mother and a Jewish American father, she explores the idea of “otherness” in a dualistic and prideful manner. Her process involves the layering of acrylic, oil, china marker, pastel, charcoal, spray paint, marker and ink. Through the course of layering, she is able to connect aspects of both time and history in her subject matter.
Rheingold received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2022, and her BFA from Syracuse University in 2019. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions at M+B, Los Angeles, California; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; T293, Rome, Italy; The Historic Hampton House Museum of Art & Culture, Miami, Florida; Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, California; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, California; Latitude Gallery, New York, New York; Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, New York; China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China; Backhaus Projects, Berlin, Germany; London Paint Club, London, United Kingdom; amongst others.
Rheingold lives and works in New York.