Danila Rumold, "Kitchen Cut Out IV"
NFS. Logwood, Weld and Blueberry on Kozo Paper, mounted on Birch Wood, 22” x 29”, 2021.
Artist statement
Kitchen Cut Outs transform ubiquitous objects of consumer culture into lyrical forms, in a radical act of resistance against the dominant norms of capitalism and patriarchy. My exploration begins with food packaging found in the kitchen, a primary site of domestic labor. I carefully deconstruct boxes of cereal, pasta and butter into flat geometric forms, which I then scan and enlarge, to highlight the pervasiveness and power they carry as symbols of capitalism. Using these scaled-up versions of the box templates, I begin to transform their rigid, angular structures into more natural, organic forms. I collage over them with fragments of botanically dyed mulberry paper, obliterating the advertising labels completely and replacing them with traces of plants and minerals foraged in the Southwest region where I live. The finished work is antithetical to its origin – a transformation of homogeneity to uniqueness, environmental destruction to sustainability, and masculinity to femininity.
Artist bio
Danila Rumold is an American-Colombian-German artist. Her career began at DePaul University (1997) where she was trained in mural painting. She went on to get her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle (2001). Other accomplishments include selected exhibitions: Henry Art Gallery, and IMA Gallery, in Seattle, WA, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA and the Painting Center, New York, NY. Rumold’s middle career includes becoming a mother of two between 2013 - 2015. Moving near family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the challenge of raising children and working as an artist remained. It shaped her focus on dissolving the paradigm that motherhood and art-making are exclusive of one another. She has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, and received official selection awards from the Berlin Film Festival, Albuquerque Film Festival, as well as a merit award from the LA Awareness Festival.
NFS. Logwood, Weld and Blueberry on Kozo Paper, mounted on Birch Wood, 22” x 29”, 2021.
Artist statement
Kitchen Cut Outs transform ubiquitous objects of consumer culture into lyrical forms, in a radical act of resistance against the dominant norms of capitalism and patriarchy. My exploration begins with food packaging found in the kitchen, a primary site of domestic labor. I carefully deconstruct boxes of cereal, pasta and butter into flat geometric forms, which I then scan and enlarge, to highlight the pervasiveness and power they carry as symbols of capitalism. Using these scaled-up versions of the box templates, I begin to transform their rigid, angular structures into more natural, organic forms. I collage over them with fragments of botanically dyed mulberry paper, obliterating the advertising labels completely and replacing them with traces of plants and minerals foraged in the Southwest region where I live. The finished work is antithetical to its origin – a transformation of homogeneity to uniqueness, environmental destruction to sustainability, and masculinity to femininity.
Artist bio
Danila Rumold is an American-Colombian-German artist. Her career began at DePaul University (1997) where she was trained in mural painting. She went on to get her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle (2001). Other accomplishments include selected exhibitions: Henry Art Gallery, and IMA Gallery, in Seattle, WA, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA and the Painting Center, New York, NY. Rumold’s middle career includes becoming a mother of two between 2013 - 2015. Moving near family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the challenge of raising children and working as an artist remained. It shaped her focus on dissolving the paradigm that motherhood and art-making are exclusive of one another. She has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, and received official selection awards from the Berlin Film Festival, Albuquerque Film Festival, as well as a merit award from the LA Awareness Festival.
NFS. Logwood, Weld and Blueberry on Kozo Paper, mounted on Birch Wood, 22” x 29”, 2021.
Artist statement
Kitchen Cut Outs transform ubiquitous objects of consumer culture into lyrical forms, in a radical act of resistance against the dominant norms of capitalism and patriarchy. My exploration begins with food packaging found in the kitchen, a primary site of domestic labor. I carefully deconstruct boxes of cereal, pasta and butter into flat geometric forms, which I then scan and enlarge, to highlight the pervasiveness and power they carry as symbols of capitalism. Using these scaled-up versions of the box templates, I begin to transform their rigid, angular structures into more natural, organic forms. I collage over them with fragments of botanically dyed mulberry paper, obliterating the advertising labels completely and replacing them with traces of plants and minerals foraged in the Southwest region where I live. The finished work is antithetical to its origin – a transformation of homogeneity to uniqueness, environmental destruction to sustainability, and masculinity to femininity.
Artist bio
Danila Rumold is an American-Colombian-German artist. Her career began at DePaul University (1997) where she was trained in mural painting. She went on to get her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle (2001). Other accomplishments include selected exhibitions: Henry Art Gallery, and IMA Gallery, in Seattle, WA, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA and the Painting Center, New York, NY. Rumold’s middle career includes becoming a mother of two between 2013 - 2015. Moving near family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the challenge of raising children and working as an artist remained. It shaped her focus on dissolving the paradigm that motherhood and art-making are exclusive of one another. She has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, and received official selection awards from the Berlin Film Festival, Albuquerque Film Festival, as well as a merit award from the LA Awareness Festival.