Details:

In this painting, the artist ponders to what extent young women will go to accelerate their life stages, leaving behind lumps of innocence. The image is of a young woman washing her face as the remains of her mascara, eye shadow, and eyeliner stream down her face and transform her back into a child.
Unframed
Signed

① Artwork:

Substance in a Gentle Steam

In this painting, the artist ponders to what extent young women will go to accelerate their life stages, leaving behind lumps of innocence. The image is of a young woman washing her face as the remains of her mascara, eye shadow, and eyeliner stream down her face and transform her back into a child.

As with many of the paintings in this series, this image questions society’s hyper-fixation with rushing through adolescence to achieve maturity before one’s peers. The title alludes to the cleansing of a woman’s makeup as well as the substances people start using as they mature, ruining lives and relationships.

In her painting practice, Dylan Rose Rheingold explores the effects and experiences of contemporary American “girl culture” through visual symbols of her adolescence, femininity, and a heterogeneous cultural background. Her coming-of-age stories highlight humble difficulties like braces, birth control, heavy periods, and stretch marks by exploring everyday emotions and quotidian spaces.

Specs:

18 inches
24 inches

③ Artist:

Dylan Rose Rheingold

In her painting practice, Dylan Rose Rheingold explores the effects and experiences of contemporary American “girl culture” through visual symbols of her adolescence, femininity, and a heterogeneous cultural background. By representing these elements in unexpected configurations, she creates a non-linear narrative through her oeuvre, which she populates with representations of her family, friends, and herself. Her coming-of-age stories highlight humble difficulties like braces, birth control, heavy periods, and stretch marks through the exploration of everyday emotions and quotidian spaces.

Dylan Rose Rheingold was born in 1997 in New York City, NY, where she currently lives. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY (2022) and her BFA from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY (2019).

She has mounted solo exhibitions at Jupiter Contemporary in Miami, FL (2022) and Selenas Mountain in Brooklyn, NY (2021).

Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including State of Play at The Here & There Collective in Brooklyn, NY (2023); Horizons at Sow & Tailor/ Woaw Gallery in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China (2023); Spotlight, at Grove Collective in London, UK (2022); Electric Affinities at T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy (2022); and They’re On To You at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City, NY (2022).

Dylan Rose Rheingold:
Substance in a Gentle Steam, 2023
Acrylic, oil stick, and pastel on canvas
24.0 × 18.0 inches /