EVELYN REINPRECHT
(510) 882-7994
ereinprecht@sbcglobal.net

Eco-artist, Evelyn Reinprecht believes in finding the usefulness in what others discard. A spent light bulb, bubble wrap, or `an interesting piece of tissue paper or magazine page becomes focal points in her works.

Evelyn produces 3-dimensional mixed-media miniature works. She uses corrugated cardboard, light bulbs, aluminum, foil, pans, bubble wrap, straws, small stones, tissue paper, ribbon, wire, shoe boxes, and magazine pages, among other discarded materials, in her lively and colorful works.

Evelyn’s artistic style is somewhere in the spectrum of folk or primitive. She has painted nudes and art nouveau motifs on glass, often mirrors, and worked with acrylics on canvas. She has used painted bodies as brushes, choreographing their movements on the canvas. But her passion is working with recycled materials. And in miniature.

A native of Brazil, Evelyn studied art at the Federal Arts University in Goiania and has a degree in Plastic Arts from the Faculdade de Artes Santa Marcelina in Sao Paulo. This multi-disciplined program included ceramics, theater, painting, singing, music and dancing. She studied physical education at the University Estadual de Goias with the goal of incorporating movement into her art. In Brazil she was planning on teaching children art and expression through the many different aspects of art.

She is a member of the Brazilian Plastic Arts. An artistic movement that emphasizes the artist’s vision and manipulation of forms and images to invoke an aesthetic and poetic concept.

The Post Office in Goias, invited Evelyn to create and display Christmas cards made out of recycled materials. In association with this exhibit, she also lectured on using recycled materials in the creative process. The exhibit benefited the Casa da Esperanca (Hope House.)

She was also a television journalist on O Popular TV, city of Goias, the region of Goiania, Brazil.