Rheda Rosenberger is a Minneapolis based, multi media artist, with a focus on wheel thrown, usable ceramics. Growing up moving to many different states all over the U.S., Rheda finds themselves drawn to creating beauty in the mundane and everyday life through the creation of tableware, ash trays, and vases. Following a very similar philosophy to Kintsugi - the traditional Japanese ceramic repair practice that believes in the beauty of imperfection and the importance of breakage within an objects journey rather than the end of it - Rheda wants to encourage the usage of their work in day to day life, forgoing the anxiety that can surround the use of a piece that is more expensive or of higher quality than the average machine made ceramics piece. 
 
In painting and other 2-D art practices, Rheda is drawn to the human figure. Their person to color synesthesia and chromesthesia influencing their work and what colors are chosen for each figure they replicate. For many of the same reasons that Rheda finds themselves aligned with Kintsugi, Rheda finds beauty in the imperfection of the human form. Their belief of how a body shows the wear of use adds beauty rather than subtracts it. Within a world of beauty perfections, the realism that can be gleaned from oil painting can be used to edit a figure to fit more or less into that ideal. Although Rheda recognizes the importance of people, and their muses, to feel good and beautiful within their paintings, they find great interest in the “flaws” that each person carries that make them all unique. 
​