Neon pinks blaze against electric blues. Sequins catch the light. Family photos dissolve into layers of dreamlike color. That's the signature style of Eleanor Reyelt, a 22-year-old Brookline native who's built her whole artistic practice around materials most people leave behind after childhood — rhinestones, sequins, glitter.

"I make art about girlhood, joy, visual excess, pride," Reyelt told Brookline.News in a July 5 profile.

Reyelt, a 2023 Brimmer and May School graduate, is now a rising senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design, studying painting with a minor in fibers. In high school, she used rhinestones and sequins mostly as decoration. At SCAD, they became the whole point — both the medium and the message. Her work now spans painting, textiles, clothing, video projections and moving installations.

"It's sort of this idea of both literally taking up space, but also emotionally," she said of her large-scale pieces. "I want it to feel alive. It moves when you move."

Her work has been showing up all over — including right here at home.

In May, Reyelt showed four pieces at the Brookline Arts Center's Art Off the Wall fundraiser, her second year exhibiting there. One painting, ITTY BITTY, also appeared in a Cambridge Art Association exhibition through late June — inspired by the memory of owning her first bikini, a mix of pride and awkwardness she wanted to capture on canvas.

Since 2024, Reyelt has worked as a studio assistant at Studio Echelman in Brookline, the workspace of internationally known sculptor Janet Echelman. She also assists artists Cicely Carew and Kate Holcomb Hale. In 2025, Boston selected her for the Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, and she completed an artist residency in upstate New York.

Reyelt graduates from SCAD in 2027. Her work can be viewed at eleanorreyelt.com.