Howard Rheingold Art

Painted objects, symbolic machines, wearable magic, and visual thoughtforms.

Everyday things become charged visual objects: shoes become cosmological instruments, boxes become portals, painted cutouts become garden spirits, and symbols become a way of thinking by hand.

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Dream Objects And Domestic Talismans

Painted everyday things, symbolic objects, and intimate magical artifacts.

777 — 777A luminous symbolic painting in blues, greens, and flame.

Magical Thought Box — Magical Thought BoxPainted object, 2016.

Magickal Mirror — Magickal MirrorA painted mirror object.

Chocolate Coffee Pot — Chocolate Coffee PotA domestic object transformed into a painted talisman.

Familiar Spirit — Familiar SpiritPainted spirit form, 2021.

Painted Watch — Painted WatchAn ordinary object given a symbolic surface.

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Mythic Beings, Masks, And Watchers

Faces, eyes, spirits, animal powers, masks, and guardians.

Space Crow Meets AI Basilisk — Space Crow Meets AI BasiliskA cosmic bird and basilisk face one another across a painted field.

God — GodA painted eye-flower form.

Scarab — ScarabWinged scarab figure.

Garuda — GarudaPainted winged guardian, 2018.

Green Man — Green ManLeaf mask and watcher, 2019.

Big Eye Thing — Big Eye ThingA watchful painted face.

Bug — BugPainted insect form, 2017.

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Painted Shoes And Wearable Magic

Shoes as portable paintings, personal symbols, and walkable cosmologies.

Snakeyes — SnakeyesHand-painted shoes, 2024.

Space Crow Shoes — Space Crow ShoesHand-painted shoes, 2016.

Kokopelli Shoes — Kokopelli ShoesPainted shoes with crow, gear, and bright side patterns.

Eyeball Shoes — Eyeball ShoesHand-painted shoes, 2015.

Ganesh Shoes — Ganesh ShoesPainted wearable talismans.

Dot Shoes — Dot ShoesHand-painted shoes, 2013.

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Boxes, Kiosks, And Light Machines

Constructed works that act like portals, display devices, illuminated objects, or symbolic machines.

Dimension Box — Dimension BoxIlluminated top.

Dimension Box — Dimension BoxPainted side panel.

Cosmic Transporter Box — Cosmic Transporter BoxA constructed painted portal object.

Light Box With Remote — Light Box With RemoteA painted light object.

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Furniture, Gardens, And Painted Environments

Painted objects that live in rooms, gardens, tables, chairs, and other shared spaces.

Rheingoldian Dreamscape — Rheingoldian DreamscapeInstalled in the garden.

Little Free Art Gallery — Little Free Art GalleryTake art, leave art.

Green Man Chair — Green Man ChairA painted chair with guardian face and foliage.

Painted Table — Painted TablePhoto by Fabrice Florin.

Tree Eye Planter — Tree Eye PlanterPainted planter box.

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Patterns, Mandalas, And Sacred Geometry

Repeating systems, Fibonacci forms, mandalas, watercolors, and symbolic abstraction.

Watercolor Postcards — Watercolor PostcardsSmall abstract fields of color and texture.

Tiny Mandala Pattern — Tiny Mandala PatternA small painting multiplied into a repeating field.

Blue Fibonacci — Blue FibonacciPattern study, 2019.

Snakefinity — SnakefinityInterlocking serpentine pattern.

Seal of Question Authority — Seal of Question AuthorityA symbolic emblem.

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Public And Participatory Art

Works involving exchange, collaboration, procession, documentation, or shared making.

Quetzalcoatl — QuetzalcoatlTwo large painted heads.

Art Car — Art CarQuetzalcoatl elements in public procession form.

Group Painting — Group PaintingCollaborative painting with Howard, Ilyse, and Justin.

Memorial Day Documentation — Memorial Day DocumentationNotebook display and process record.