ARTIST STATEMENT

Through textiles, painting, and repurposed materials, Reinis' deeply personal yet playful work reimagines the spaces we call home. 

Contextualized by her evangelical upbringing in Texas, Reinis' artwork builds off her graduate research at Harvard Divinity School to critically engage American evangelicalism and their vision of the American home, "true womanhood," and conservative political culture. ​​In parallel, her artwork also builds a home for herself. Often playing off of familiar interiors and everyday objects, Reinis employs bright colors, and material experimentation, to create surreal multi-media installations that blur realism with reimagined environments. In this work, Reinis redefines domesticity for herself, by infusing play, whimsy, and imagination into the ordinary. 

This approach is informed by two impulses: the nontraditional craft of her childhood and her formal training as an oil painter. Crucial to her method and creativity is her commitment to an environmentally sustainable art practice, primarily working with repurposed or thrifted materials.

While deeply grounded in her personal experience, she aims to create environments where viewers can reflect on how religion, domesticity, gender, and disability shape their own understanding of home. By reworking the materials and symbols of domestic life, she does not abandon the idea of home but reconfigures it, leaving space for complexity, contradiction, and self-definition.

Reinis is an experienced producer, producing large-scale creative projects including films and exhibitions for The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum, European Cultural Council during the 2024 Venice Biennale, the Knight Foundation, Aspen Ideas Fair, and more. With her artwork, Reinis has exhibited locally and nationally, including at Harvard University, the San Antonio Art League and Museum, the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery, and the Rockport Center for the Arts. ​

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