Venezuela-born artist Babs Reingold creates alternate ambiguities with her wall art and installations. Current focuses are beauty, the environment and poverty.

Works from the “Beauty Series” are more recent showings. Ms Reingold participated in the 2012 “I Have A Secret Wish” at the University of Alabama’s Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery; In 2011, the “Pulp” exhibit at Beta Pictoris Maus Contemporary Art, Birmingham AL. In Fall 2011, she created a special work for Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects in Chelsea for the “Till All is Green” Exhibition Benefit for Children Affected by the Japan Earthquake.

Two works are in permanent museum collections; one recently selected by Dr Jennifer Hardin, curator of the St Petersburg Museum of Art. The second is at the Newark Art Museum, chosen after she exhibited in the New Jersey Arts Annual. The show, curated by Joseph Jacobs, led to a recommendation by Mr Jacobs for a Joan Mitchell grant for Ms Reingold.

Her wall art and a major installation, titled “Hung Out In The Projects,” earned a 2010 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Poverty is personal and long-lived. She spent two-and-a-half years in a public housing as a teenager. Ms Reingold’s recent exhibits on this theme were the “Project” installation at the Morean Art Center, St Petersburg, FL; “Flesh Art,” Jersey City University, NJ; “Robes,” College of St Elizabeth, NJ, and “Media Mix: 4x” at Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY.

She has also exhibited during the past several years at the Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, NJ, and Middlesex College, Edison, NJ, The Studio at 620, St Petersburg, FL, and Greene Gallery, Sarasota, FL. Solo shows include galleries in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Savannah, Buffalo, and St Petersburg. Ms Reingold has participated in museum shows in Jersey City, Buffalo, Tampa, and Newark. She has works in countless private collections, including that of the Chairman of Savannah College of Art and Design.

Numerous awards in addition to the Florida Fellowship include three from Whitney curator Barbara Haskell, a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and patron awards from Michael Auping and Doug Schultz while they were respectively Curator and Director of the Albright-Knox Art Museum.

Ms Reingold was a juror of the Florida State fellowship competition in 2011 after being selected for a Creative Capital Workshop in 2010.

Among her curatorial activities, Ms Reingold co-curated a show at Franklin Furnace in Manhattan, titled “Voyeur’s Delight.” The controversial nature of the exhibit motivated religious picketing at the White House.

Ms Reingold received a MFA from SUNY-Buffalo and BFA degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art. In both universities, Ms Reingold received scholarship and teaching assistance awards, and has shown in alumni-directed shows. She has studios in St Petersburg FL and the greater New York area.