Babs Reingold Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1954
"In her multi layered installations Babs Reingold’s brings together drawing, sculpture, found objects, and at times video, to create potent environments alluding to the body, the environment, and the passage of time. Equipped with a fine tuned sensibility to materiality and an imaginative approach to spatiality, Babs Reingold’s installations inhabit spaces as an alternate force of nature and take a life of their own.”
-Etty Yaniv
Venezuela-born American artist Babs Reingold creates sculptures, drawings, and installations, focusing on the environment, poverty and beauty.
Using human hair is central to Reingold's work. The diversity of hair from anonymous donors, with their individual DNA's, mimics the diversity of societies. True, too, is the push-pull of hair, beauty in one setting and disgust in another.
Reingold has an extensive showing history with solo and group exhibits in galleries and museums from New York to Los Angeles and internationally. Recent exhibits include Water Over the Bridge: Contemporary Seascapes at the Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, Florida; Planet Ax4+1 at David & Schweitzer Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts; and her installation, The Last Tree, a solo exhibit, had a six-month run at Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York. It debuted earlier at the ISE Cultural Foundation in SOHO, New York.
