Ingrid Evans

1929 - 2015

Ingrid Evans

Ingrid C. Evans of Reno passed away at her home on October 5, 2015.

Ingrid was born March 17, 1929, in Berlin, Germany. She was raised and educated in Berlin. She married and moved to Grand Island, Nebraska in 1949. Ingrid and her three children, Karin, Michael and Gary moved to the Reno area in 1958. She worked for a short time in the casino industry and resumed her education at the University of Nevada. She graduated in 1973 with a Master's degree in History.

In 1968, she married Larry Evans. Larry was an American chess Grandmaster as well as an International Chess Grandmaster, five time U.S. Chess champion and an author and journalist. Larry preceded Ingrid in death on November 15, 2010.

Ingrid was involved in making art all of her life. It was in the late 70's that she discovered the prospect and potential of hand-papermaking and sometime later she began printmaking. She worked mainly in multi-media pieces, incorporating painting, printmaking and diverse papermaking techniques. Ingrid wrote about artists and art exhibits for a wide number of publications, including Artspace, Artweek, Fine Print, Hand Papermaking, American Ceramics and The Reno Gazette Journal as well as catalogue essays for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lake Worth, Florida, the Nevada Museum of art, Reno, Nevada, the Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany and the Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada

Among Ingrid's solo shows have been exhibits at Truckee Meadows Community College, Sierra Arts and Nevada Museum of art all in Reno, Nevada, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada, LXS Gallery, Carson City, Nevada and Artspace at Clark County Community College, Las Vegas. She participated in numerous group exhibitions at Stremmel Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, Sierra Arts and Sheppard Gallery at the University of Nevada in Reno, Nevada, NCA in Las Vegas, Nevada, Francis N. Naumann Fine art in New York City, NY as well as institutions and juried exhibits in Germany and throughout the United States. Ingrid's work is represented in the collections of the Nevada Museum of Art, Renown Regional Medical Center, Carson-Tahoe Hospital, Clark & Sullivan Constructors and numerous private collections.

According to Jim Peele, who wrote an essay about Ingrid, included in the book Traces by Marcia Growdon, "Ingrid Evans is an urban urbanite who has lived the vast majority of her art producing life in the sparsely populated mountains and deserts of, as she often describes it, the hinterland. Born and bred in flat Berlin, Evans has spent hours-upon-hours carving her way down Sierra Nevada ski slopes. She can discuss at length the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger or the obscure poetry of T.S. Eliot yet she enjoys reading the crime whodunits of Margaret Truman and Carl Hiaasen. Living in a mountain/desert environment that demands a rugged four-wheel drive, her vehicles of choice have included a sleek high-performance Jaguar XKE and later a stainless steel, gull-winged DeLorean DMC-12."

Ingrid was a wonderful mother to her three children and a loyal wife, friend and companion to her husband Larry. She was selective in picking her friends, but once you were-you were forever, with her unwavering support.

Ingrid was preceded in death by her parents, her daughter Karin Siever Zimmerman, her husband Larry Evans and her son Gary Siever. She is survived by her son Michael Siever of Reno and her brother Christian Hamann of Berlin.

There will be a private gathering at a later date to celebrate Ingrid's life.