Jupiter is pleased to partner with David Zwirner's Platform as one of the galleries featured for the month of April 2023. Beginning April 1st, we will present new work by Dylan Rose Rheingold and Yongqi Tang.
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. Attempting to normalize cultural differences, Rheingold seeks inspiration from sources such as American folk and outsider art in addition to her own cultural background. As the daughter of a first-generation Japanese-American mother and a Jewish-American father, Rheingold uses family history as sources of inspiration for her work, often seeking out familial archives and anecdotes of which to devise artistic relationships from, although, she is also known to use anonymous photographs found in antique books and magazines to accumulate subjects for her work.
Having studied and worked between China and America, Tang has been influenced by the drastically different cultural and ideological contexts of the two countries. Interested in how the interaction with the environing world would affect our existence, the artist questions and deconstructs her roles in both private and public spaces by investigating the social construction of identities through the act of painting and drawing. Yongqi’s works examine the fluidity of our self-images and relate to the broader human experience of the ambiguousness of identities such as gender, sexuality, and nationality. Through blending allegories, myths, and symbols from both Western and Chinese Classicist traditions, she creates a playful in-betweenness to reinterpret the categories into which we are born to rearticulate the discourse around them.
