Babs Reingold (born in Caracas, Venezuela) is an American contemporary interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, installation, video, painting and drawing.
Reingold is best known as a visual and conceptual artist for creating alternate ambiguities with her wall art and installations as they relate to the environment, poverty and beauty.
[1] She draws on her early experiences of hardship to create elaborate installations using domestic objects and natural materials like clotheslines, threads, human hair, animal skins, organza fabric structures, rust and tea staining, and encaustic.
[4] This elaborate installation, curated by Midori Yoshimoto at the ISE Cultural Foundation in New York, illuminates Jared Diamond's question What was the Easter Islander thinking when he chopped down the last tree?
[citation needed] After spending her childhood in Caracas, and youth in Dallas, Texas, Reingold endured grinding poverty as an adolescent in Woodhill, a public housing complex in Cleveland, Ohio with her mother and four siblings after her photographer father became ill with multiple sclerosis and her mother was unable to cope,.