Dylan Rose Rheingold delves into the effects and experiences of girlhood within American contemporary culture in her painting practice by foregrounding symbols of her adolescence, femininity, and heterogeneous cultural background to investigate the idea of otherness. By re-presenting these elements in occasionally unexpected configurations, she threads a non-linear narrative throughout her oeuvre, populated with ambiguous representations of family, friends, and the artist herself. The stories that spill forth highlight everyday emotions and quotidian spaces which exaggerate the details and often vailed truths- such as braces, birth control, heavy periods & stretch marks- within the dynamism of the coming of age feminine experience.
Themes and imagery central to Rheingold’s practice include symbols of adolescence, femininity, and a heterogeneous cultural background. The artist describes the teenage femenine experience as a time in which the body of a young woman “inherently takes on the responsibility to hold everyone else’s gaze.”
Dylan Rose Rheingold's paintings have been featured in exhibitions at Jupiter Contemporary, Miami Beach; T293 Gallery, Rome; Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York; London Paint Club, London; Grove Collective, London; Backhaus Projects, Berlin; China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Latitude Gallery, New York; Selenas Mountain, New York; UUU Art Collective, Rochester; Ki Smith Gallery, New York; amongst others. Rheingold currently lives and works in New York City.