Danila Rumold’s current work explores themes of paradox, impermanence, beauty and healing. Utilizing the shape of the catenary curve, she explores the organic within the geometric. Staining paper with botanical dyes, she cuts, tears and pieces together fragments of paper, mending surfaces into forms and of sacred geometry.
Rumold’s career began at DePaul University (1997) where she was trained in mural painting. Employed by the Chicago Artist Coalition, she painted public murals. Rumold got her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle (2001). Other accomplishments include selected exhibitions: Henry Art Gallery, and IMA Gallery, in Seattle, WA, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA and the Painting Center, New York, NY. She has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, published in MaMagazine, Sooo Magazine and Still Point Quarterly. Rumold received official selection awards from the Berlin Film Festival, Albuquerque Film Festival, as well as a merit award from the LA Awareness Festival.
Rumold’s recent work embodies the making and application of natural artist materials, as a means of commentary on sustainability and labor. Realizing this effort, she co-founded the Raking Weeds Collective who exhibited at AC2 Gallery, in Albuquerque, NM (2021). Rumold also collaborates with the Artist/Mother community, with whom she exhibited at Casa Otro, in Las Cruces (2020).