RACHEL KLINGHOFFER

RACHEL KLINGHOFFER

  • works
    • Agressive Optimism at Morgan Lehman Gallery
    • If You Like Piña Coladas
    • The Skirt at Ortega y Gasset Projects
    • works on paper
    • sculpture
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Rosenbluth, Alfred, Rachel Klinghoffer at One River Woodbury, Whitehot Magazine. 7 January 2021
Hess, Erika b, I Like your work podcast, Finding the Intense Sweetness in Making: Rachel Klinghoffer on Repurposing Ephemera into Icons, 11 December 2020
Brock, Hovey. ArtSeen, The Brooklyn Rail, 29 March 2020
Cameron, Britta. “Rachel KLINGHOFFER | SUSPENDED IN MY MASQERADE”. Flaunt.com, 24 January 2020
Cowan, Katy. “Colourful sculptures by Rachel Klinghoffer made entirely from everyday trash and discarded toys”, CreativeBoom,.com, November 2019
Wolpow, Nina. “Artseen, BRIC Biennial: Volume III, “The Impossible Possible”, BrooklynRail.com, March 2019
Shannon, Maggie. “The Spring/Break Art Fair Is Filled with Awesome and Weird Creative Works”, Vice.com. 3 March 2017
Harbour, Aaron, Im, Jackie. Review: Best of 2016. Sluice.info. 10 December 2016
Jia, Olivia. Review: Bedrock. Title-magazine.com. 21 July 2016
Martinez, Alanna. New Kids on the Block: 6 Art Galleries to Keep Your Eye on in 2016. Observer.com. 4 January 2016
Meier, Allison. “Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station”. Hyperallergic.com. 4 March 2015
Grabner, Michelle. New American Paintings. NORTHEAST #116. February 2015 / March 2015

There should be unicorns
2018
Used house paint cans from renovating our home, our broken coffee grinder, one of the vintage boots I wore all through undergrad, balloon from bringing daughter home from hospital, balloons from daughter’s first and second birthday, wrapping paper from daughters Hanukah gift, leather from friend, scrap piece of fabric from tie husband wore to our wedding, pieces of sliced quartz from friend, earing and bra from collector, sleeve from husband’s old button down, shell from parents trip to Antigua, pin from my maternal grandmother, emeralds, rubies, diamonds, opals, vintage pins, costume engagement ring, fake pearls and coral necklace from uncle, rocks from RISD beach, paillettes, mahjong tile, buttons and drink stir from 1940’s nightclub from paternal grandmother, magnet from trip to Sorento with husband, elephant earing my sister and I wore at camp, plastic disco ball necklace and plastic peace sign earing from my bat mitvah, leftover metallic nail materials from friend, Buddhist red jade necklace from friend from undergrad, yitzkor tin stars of David, felt from old sculpture, pieces of husbands ripped jeans, piece of sombrero from honeymoon in Mexico, sand dollar from Long Beach Island, NJ, bird necklace I used to wear in middle school, part of broken crystal menorah, leftover glitter from making birthday cards, leftover wire from old sculpture, imprint from knitted doily from husbands great grandmother, magic sculpt, encapso k, fabric glue, metallic powders, acrylic ,spray paint, varnish
42 x 19 x 9 inches

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