We at the moment are in full fall mode, with an exhibition we now have had our eye on for a couple of weeks now: NYC-based Dylan Rose Rheingold‘s Behind Closed Doorways at Public Service Gallery in Stockholm.
The exhibition is an intimate extension of the artist’s exploration into the realm of girlhood, and the narrative of younger ladies at a crossroad, as they transfer past the formative experiences of adolescence in direction of the emergent realities of womanhood. Themes and imagery central to Rheingold’s observe embody symbols of otherness, femininity, and her personal heterogeneous cultural background. By representing these components in unconventional compositions, owing to her employment of automated drawing/surrealist automatism and her heavy layering of blended mediums, Rheingold renders these themes and symbols as nostalgic, half-remembered goals. She is drawn to the thought of mundanity; on a regular basis feelings and banal areas that, when seen by her surrealist type, are amplified and reworked into unconscious worlds which are each unknowable and universally acquainted. By exaggerating the susceptible and unglamorous particulars – and infrequently veiled truths – of the female expertise, Rheingold spotlights a vital time frame, when a younger girl turns into acutely aware of the inherent duty she should take up with the intention to maintain everybody else’s gaze.
Two earlier solo exhibitions led as much as this physique of labor and set down the inspiration for the present present Behind Closed Doorways at Public Service Gallery. Firstly, Misplaced in The Costume Up Bin at T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy (2023) explored the thought of escapism in a up to date lens, in relation to the precise childhood sport of taking part in costume up. Inspecting the will to placed on one other look and embody a overseas identification, in addition to the expectations and requirements that society inherently locations on ladies. Secondly, Finest in Present at M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, US (2023) checked out social hierarchies and worth techniques in relation to the concept that younger ladies are placed on a platform and compelled to react or carry out in on a regular basis life. All through these earlier investigations, Rheingold was led to increase on these ideas whereas making a mushy but darker, playful narrative.
Dylan Rose Rheingold’s (b. 1997) observe is closely influenced by the idea of identification because it explores girlhood, reminiscence and nostalgia inside American modern tradition. Constructing a bridge between summary figuration & surrealism, her dreamscape work act as retailers of self reflection and storytelling; exploring mundane moments in our non-public lives whereas reflecting on elements of intimacy and otherness by a female lens.
Her work offers with motifs surrounding numerous moments from her household archive and makes use of storytelling to create fictional topics impressed by her reminiscence and ancestral roots. Her work is a self reflection that fixates round mundane moments and scenes of on a regular basis life in each non-public and public settings. Because the eldest daughter of a primary technology American, Japanese mom and a Jewish American father, she explores the thought of “otherness” in a dualistic and prideful method. Her course of entails the layering of acrylic, oil, china marker, pastel, charcoal, spray paint, marker and ink. By the course of layering, she is ready to join elements of each time and historical past in her material.
Rheingold obtained her MFA from the Faculty of Visible Arts in 2022, and her BFA from Syracuse College in 2019. Her work have been featured in exhibitions at M+B, Los Angeles, California; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; T293, Rome, Italy; The Historic Hampton Home Museum of Artwork & Tradition, 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 Artwork, Hangzhou, China; Backhaus Tasks, Berlin, Germany; London Paint Membership, London, United Kingdom; amongst others.