Don't Step on My Crown

In July 2022, Tanya Rynd had a solo show at Basin Gallery and Studios in Red Hook called “Don’t Step On My Crown." The stunning Masterpiece Series is a collection of 24 oil paintings spanning 1995-2022 by DUMBO Artist Tanya Rynd. At the Open Studio 2023, she will have dedicated one room to this collection of the Masterpiece Series.
Room #2: Tanya Rynd will have an additional space dedicated to studies of life drawing, poetry and an installation called "The Crowned Studio." This is a site specific installation for Open Studios 2023.

Based in DUMBO, Brooklyn since 1995, Tanya is notably a part of the dynamic and vibrant pioneering art force that influenced the neighborhood over many decades.

You may know Tanya as a partner and director at Superfine (Dumbo) founded in 2001, the first “farm to table” restaurant in the area; wherein she curates and produces 11 annual art exhibitions and multimedia events. Tanya’s formal education includes; Art, Fine Art Printing Making, Women’s Studies, Writing and Literature.

Rynd’s paintings wield a poetic tour de force, exposing a mythic examination of the self and a larger translation of humanity. Many of the works are self-portraits. Here the self, the model, crawls right up and over the proscenium; she slips right into the paint then turns back and looks at the painter and the viewer. She is a true figurative, expressionist painter!

Rynd speaks directly to the human psyche, referring to her paintings as “the unspoken stories, love letters to the world and to myself.” Tanya Rynd is an accomplished oil painter and a fine art printer focusing primarily on monoprints. She has worked with master printer Marina Ancona director of Ten Grand Press, and thanks her for teaching her the "art of how to draw and see!"