Dylan Rose Rheingold, Tenderness

Dylan Rose Rheingold

Tenderness, 2023

acrylic, china marker, UV ink on wood panel

50.8 × 33 × 1.9 cm (20 × 13 × ¾ inches)

Confrontational and honest, this body of work represents a journey into girlhood, interpreting personal and collective narratives around the psyche of adolescence, abjection, fantasy and otherness. Rheingold is interested in the holes of art history, developing a formal language that engages with exaggeration, repetition and a kind of tenderness which treats “error” as an important, spontaneous manifestation of truth. Returning to a gaze which is proud and empathetic towards those parts of life which feel mundane, banal or incomplete has allowed Rheingold to develop a visual grammar which doesn’t concern itself with strict beauty standards but instead relatability.