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February 25th-26th, 2010
2010 International Forum on Christian Higher Education
Charis: Boundary Crossings--Neighbors, Strangers, Family, Friends
Dr. Rachel Smith, Professor & Curator
Taylor University
Rondall Reynoso, Professor & Artist
Louisiana College
David Hooker, Professor & Artist
Wheaton College
Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk, Professor & Artist
Calvin College
Roger Feldman, Professor & Artist
Seattle Pacific University
In June 2008, seven American and eight Asian artists met in Indonesia to visit cultural sites and artists' centers, share ideas and images, and create new works of art. The result is Charis: Boundary Crossings, a traveling exhibit of 40 works. The exhibit represents these artists' response to the challenges of cross-cultural understanding, the need for people of faith to address real-world issues, and the effects of globalization wherever one lives. The presentation features several of the artists discussing the project, their works and the ideas the art embodies. There will be a "short version" of the exhibit as well. This project is a vital example of the critical breakthroughs that globalization can provoke as well as the problems it brings. It underscores the importance for Christian teacher-scholars to encounter the global character of their particular realm of work and the larger Christian intellectual and academic mission.
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February 15th, 2010
Mary Hardin-Baylor Exhibition
 Belton, Texas - Abstract painter Rondall Reynoso is inspired by sociology and theology, and uniquely expresses these issues through form using line, color, and texture. In February and March Reynoso will share his artistic vision with the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Central Texas through an exhibit and a gallery talk.
Reynoso's recent paintings will be featured in an exhibit, February 15 through March 12 in the Arla Ray Tyson Art Gallery, located in Townsend Memorial Library on the UMHB campus.
An opening reception and gallery talk will take place Monday, February 15, from 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Rondall Reynoso was raised in the Sacramento area in California and educated in New York City where he received his BFA and MFA from Pratt Institute along with a Masters in Art History. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Coordinator of the Department of Art at Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana. His work has been exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions. The venues have been as varied as commercial galleries, art centers, churches, colleges and universities. Also, he has been profiled and his work reviewed across the nation in regional media, including newspapers, television and radio. Reynoso's formal abstraction deals heavily with metaphors, both sociological and theological, which are based in his faith including the exploration of the boundaries between 2-D and 3-D as a metaphor for the relationship of the corporeal nature of our existence with the eternal, the rational and the moral, and the spiritual. His work strives towards the as yet unrealized metaphoric synthesis of the corporeal nature of our existence with the eternal, the rational, and the moral.
Gallery Information:
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free to the public.
For information, please call the College of Visual and Performing Arts at (254) 295-4678.
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January 28th, 2010
LC Sculpture Invitational
This is a show of which I am very proud. This is the first all sculpture student/ faculty show we'll done at Louisiana College since I've been here. It has a nice mixture of work by students, facutly and retired faculty.
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January 14th, 2010
Piedmont College Exhibition
Piedmont hosted my work for a nice exhibition at their campus gallery. There was a nice reception where I gave a gallery talk. THe following day I was also able to visit with a painting class.
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November 12th-13th, 2009
Bringing Creation the Praise: Arts and Faith Conference at Asbury College
As part of the conference, I had a solo exhibition, "Stratum," at the Kinlaw Library. While at the conference, I also took part in panel discussion which was an enjoyable experience. The show consisted of a series of prints. These were the first prints I've made in several years and it was good to get back into a print lab.
"Bringing Creation to Praise,” was a two-day Arts and Faith Conference featuring internationally renowned musician and theologian Dr. Jeremy Begbie held by the Asbury College Art Department in partnership with Asbury Theological Seminary.
Begbie presented a lecture entitled, “Our Incarnational Faith: Christ as Lord of Creation.”
Jeremy Begbie, Ph.D., is the Thomas A. Langford Research Professor at Duke Divinity School at Duke University. Professor Begbie was previously associate principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he directed “Theology Through the Arts” at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts.
By Patrick Adams
Other conference events include a presentation by Cameron Anderson, executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts and an artist’s talk with Patrick Adams. Asbury A Rocha and Asbury Student Horticultural Society hosted a number of Creation Care activities. The two-day conferences closed on Friday evening with artists’ talks.
Other exhibits by Patrick Adams, Keith Barker, Sarah Jane Gray, Laura O’Neal, Chris Segre-Lewis and Travis Shafer on display throughout campus during the conference.
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September 10th, 2009
Faculty Show
The 2009-10 academic year openned with a faculty exhibition which featured several faculty and work from three new series'.
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January 26th, 2009
Louisiana College Faculty Exhibition
Several of the studio faculty are currently exhibiting their work in the Weathersby Fine Arts Building Gallery. The faculty on exhibit include Wang-Ling Chou, Peston Gilchrist and me, Rondall Reynoso.
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January 4th, 2009
America, Art & Spirituality III
I just received notification that I received first place in the on-line exhibition America, Art & Spirituality III. The first and second place winners receive Solo shows at the Francisco Carlos Moriconi Cultural Center in Suzano, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
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November 19, 2008
Universal Human Rights Art Collection
I've received notice that my work has been selected to be included in the American Museum of Creole Culture's Universal Human Rights Collection. I am one of twenty-one artists internationally who were selected to begin this collection.
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November 17, 2008
Ouachita Baptist University Exhibition
Today was the opening reception for my exhibition, Mixing Metaphors, at Ouachita Baptist University. The reception and gallery talk seemed to be a glowing success. The students and faculty were both attentive and engaged and good discussion followed the lecture.
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August 22, 2008
Gallery Representation
Two galleries have picked up my work to represent.
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August 22, 2008
Trip to Indonesia.
As many of you know I took part in a seminar in Indonesia this summer. It was a great experience! You can find out more about my adventures on my blog.
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March 5, 2008
Christianity, Contextualization and the Arts
I'm heading to IndonesiaI!
The Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity just informed me that I have been selected as one of eight professors from North America to travel to Indonesia for two weeks (June 8-23). The schedule looks like things will be jam packed. The First week will be in Yogyakarta and the second week will be in Bali. I am excited to see what I learn from this experience and what will develop out of it.
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September 7, 2007
Robin Miller of The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA) featured me on the front of the Friday a.m. section of the paper. The article can be found here and is reproduced below:
'Just Another Square'
By Robin Miller
rmiller@thetowntalk.com
(318) 487-6343
PINEVILLE -- The air conditioning is out in the classroom, so they opt to sit among the squares and circles in the gallery, pads and pens in hand.
Everyone contemplating exactly what it all means.
Of course, this is one of the questions commonly asked in life, right? Even those with the strongest of faith will at one time or another ask God what exactly they are to do in life.
But Rondall Reynoso isn't so much asking in this case as he is contemplating the journey of the meaning. It's his work these students consider in the coolness of the gallery.
His work is featured in Louisiana College's first art exhibit of the school year.
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Artist Rondall Reynoso stands in front of his exhibit, “Just Another Square,” at Louisiana
College. Reynoso and his family moved to Pineville from California so he could become the
head of LC’s art department.
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"Just Another Square," it's called, the title standing as a metaphor for a room filled with metaphors. In fact, that was the title of one of Reynoso's shows when he lived in California, "Metaphors."
Now in his office, Reynoso grabs a postcard featuring a photo of an exhibition piece. Lines on the canvas squiggle, much like blood cells beneath a microscope lens. Colors vary from orange to red to green to blue.
"I use chalk pastels and acrylics to create the images," he says. "The acrylic is clear, and the pastels bleed onto the acrylic."
Then the images come to life, groupings, Reynoso calls them. Which is appropriate, for each of these cell clusters are representative of groups, which can sometimes be good, sometimes bad.
"It shows how people in different groups will usually stay together," he says. "It might be a group who loves LSU football or a group who likes to play golf. The group may be rich or poor, and while it could be bad, it isn't always bad."
Reynoso has included some of these grouping images in the LC show, some of them having first been exhibited in California, where he worked as a full-time artist.
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“Just Another Square” in Rondall Reynoso’s exhibit at Louisiana College. The exhibit continues through Sept. 21.
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"But I was interested in teaching at a Christian college," he says.
So, in May, Reynoso, wife Pamela and their four children, Kyle, Eden, Mateo and Cira, packed their bags and headed for Pineville, where Reynoso now serves as head of LC's art department.
He also teaches, but the class sitting among his squares and circles belongs to another professor.
Oh yes, the squares and circles. Their message is different from that of the metaphors, for the squares and circles contemplate, ask questions.
They are the very figures that take the viewers on life's journey. But it's the viewer's responsibility to look a little closer.
Because the square canvases bearing the thick, color lines are representative of virtue.
"The lines are my Virtue Series," he says. "I had been working with the group image for years, and I needed a change. I realized the primary elements in my work were the lines and drips that come over on the canvas."
He takes a small piece of canvas from the same shelf holding the postcards, unfolding it to show how it's covered with paint drippings. A line of box-like squares in the center of the exhibit are covered with such drippings.
Metaphors of virtue and knowledge are found in both the line and dripping images, their foundation grounded in the Bible's 2 Peter, Chapter 1, which states that Christians are on a journey that begins with virtue and knowledge and eventually leads to love.
Take the lines, for instance. Lines are simple images, right? Simple to draw, simple to look at.
"And we want to do what is right, but doing what's right is not always simple," Reynoso says. "It's like the lines on the canvases. They're a build-up of 15 to 20 layers."
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“Just Another Square,” an exhibit by artist Rondall Reynoso will be on display at Louisiana College through Sept. 21.
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But the metaphors don't stop there. As mentioned, "Just Another Square" also features a few circles.
"And circles represent things eternal," Reynoso says. "I grew tired of lines and squares, and I started looking at the wedding ring."
He takes off his own wedding ring and traces it along the edge with his index finger. There is no beginning, no end.
"The circle is a metaphor for God, for things eternal," he says.
Now, Reynoso is also well-versed in other styles of painting, which he's teaching his students. The first assignment of the year is a still-life.
But he sticks to abstract in his own work. There's just something more creative in this medium, something that involves more than just canvas, paint and a brush.
"It's often harder to be an abstract painter, because you have to think in the abstract," he says.
So the students sit among Reynoso's work in the cool gallery air.
Contemplating the abstract.
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August 23, 2007
The public reception of my upcoming show has been very warm. I was interviewed by the regional NPR station. Kate Archer Kent did a wonderful job of distilling our hour long conversation down to approximately two minutes. That interview can be found on the Red River Radio website. Or, you can just listen to it
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Today I was also on the Jambalaya morning show on the local NBC affiliate KALB-TV. You can find that interview here on the Jambalaya page on kalb.com. Or, click here for a direct link.
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August 2007
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April 2007
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March 11, 2007
Bob Sylva of the Sacramento Bee featured me in his Portraits series which is in every Sunday's Scene section. The article can be found here and is reproduced below.
Portraits: The pursuit of happiness
RONDALL REYNOSO HAD TO MAKE A CHOICE: LAW OR PAINTING?
By Bob Sylva - Bee Columnist
Published 2:00 am PDT Sunday, March 11, 2007
Story appeared in SCENE section, Page L2
Rondall Reynoso, son of a former state Supreme Court
justice, chose to follow his heart and become an artist.
Sacramento Bee/Kevin German
In the scales of life, one has to balance security against happiness, safe expectations against the perils of fate. In the case of Rondall Reynoso, his decision to paint was complicated by a great shadow.
Rondall Reynoso is the son of a famous man. His father is Cruz Reynoso, himself the son of a poor immigrant farm worker. Though Cruz Reynoso once toiled in the fields, he also left the harvest to enter Boalt Hall, and later become the first Latino to serve on the California Supreme Court.
Big shoes to fill. An imposing figure. "Not really," says the son, smiling wisely. "He's not intimidating personally. I always felt that I could do whatever I wanted to do. He's certainly an icon in the Latino community. But growing up, he's just your dad."
Even so, Rondall Reynoso battled a dilemma. To pursue the family franchise or follow his heart. For years, it was a fierce, ongoing, mental litigation. However, in the case of art vs. law, the little guy triumphed. Reynoso chose the light. Hurray for splendor!
"I could imagine life without law," says Reynoso, in explaining what weighed in his final deliberation. "But I couldn't imagine life without art."
On a cold winter day, the streets slick, a parade of umbrellas bobbing outside, Rondall Reynoso is sitting by a window in a midtown coffeehouse. He is 34 years old. He is tall, 6-foot-5, with green eyes, a goatee, spiked hair that glistens like acrylic. And he resembles an artist, in his denims and black leather jacket, though he seems far too amiable.
On Saturday, a show of Reynoso's work opened at the Pamela Skinner Gallery, 723 S St. Some of the pieces go back years to when he was in graduate school in New York. They represent bouts of conflict, both personal, philosophical, even spiritual, though visually, the paintings seem tasty if not delectable.
"In the art world, there is a fear of beauty," posits Reynoso. "Though beauty can degenerate into just being pretty. But I like my work to be seductive visually. I love the colors. People say they look like sherbet or candy." He smiles, adding, "But I think there is virtue in beauty. It has the power to transcend the mire in the world and reflect what is beyond."
Rondall Reynoso was raised on a farm in Herald, a tiny, rural outpost near Rancho Seco. He attended Galt High School and, tall, skinny, played basketball. He married his high school sweetheart. At 19, if life wasn't challenging enough, the two were unexpectedly parents. Reynoso struggled to pursue an education.
In 1998, Reynoso, accompanied by his wife Pamela and their two young children, moved to Flatbush in Brooklyn. He enrolled at the Pratt Institute, a celebrated art school. "It was a shock," laughs Reynoso of the adjustment. "In Brooklyn, there was a 17-story apartment house across from us. In Herald, there was a 300-acre dairy. I used to joke that I could point at a building (in New York City) and it would have more people than my entire hometown."
At Pratt, he earned a bachelor of fine arts, a master's of fine arts in painting and another degree in art history. He had several student shows and his work earned accolades. He considered staying in New York. But, by this time, he and Pamela had two more children. He decided to raise his family, to pursue his career, in the more pastel climate of California.
Today, Reynoso is back on the farm. "When you first move to New York, you have to learn how to sleep with the traffic," he laughs. "And when you come back, you have to learn to sleep without the traffic." Indeed, the quiet of Herald can be disconcerting.
Reynoso lives in a modest, second house on his parents' farm. His wife homeschools two of their school-age children. Rondall has made a garage into a studio. He is considering a possible faculty position at Fresno Pacific University, a small Christian college. And is excited by his show in Sacramento.
"There is an element of validation, an element of pride," he says. "I'm feeling pretty good right now."
The scales are tipped in his favor.
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March 2007
They say any press is good press as long as they spell your name correctly. Well this month the Gallery Guide listed my name as Rondah Relinoso. I guess that won't do me much good. But, hopefully the gallery will at least be able to get a free month in the guide out of the guide's mistake.
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March 9, 2007
I am happy to announce that I have accepted a position at Louisiana College. LC is a small liberal arts college located in central Louisiana. I will be taking over the Art Department Coordinator position. It will cetrainly be a challenge to head the art department but I look forward to the challenge.
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March 8, 2007
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January 2007
The Show at the Artisan Gallery has proven to be a good oportunity for my work. The show received the Sacramento News & Review, "Pick of the Week" and was favorably reviewed on January 4th. Two more exhibitions of my work have also been scheduled. The first will be in March at the Pamela Skinner Gallery in Sacramento. The other will be at the Center Line Gallery in the small town of Woodland, California.
Hot orb fantasy
By Saunthy Nicolson-Singh
This article was published on 01.04.07
When you look at a certain one of Rondall Reynoso’s “Things Eternal” at the Artisan Gallery, 1901 Del Paso Boulevard, there’s a faint recollection of something warm and familiar. This piece, pastel and acrylic on canvas, figures into a series of brilliantly colored work in Reynoso’s rather minimalist one-man show, Whatsoever. Finally you remember what it evokes, a throwback to a time before these gloomy, gray days--the sun! The series’ round shapes shimmer like the corona of that hot orb, and you can pretend to feel the heat. Reynoso’s “Roundels” on portrait-shaped canvases are fun, with amoebic shapes flowing in the tightly confined, richly hued spaces.
And maybe it’s the recent season full of sugar that makes this connection, but his “Knowledge Series” floor installation of acrylic and wood boxes could fit into Wayne Thiebaud’s dreams: oversized, square, chocolate-topped candies or cakes, all lined up in an almost infinite row. Through January 7; call (916) 648-0260 for more information.
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December 2006
A solo exhibition of my work will be held at The Artisan Gallery in Sacramento (1901 Del Paso Blvd.). The opening reception is December 9th from 6-10 pm and the show will run through the month of December.
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May 2006
I was asked by a high school history teacher to bring my work to his class to help them out in an art unit they are doing. It was very interesting to see how these inner city 10th graders reacted to my work. In all, it went very well and both the teacher and I were impressed with the students interaction with the work.
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April 2006
This month a large show of my work opens at Warehouse Christian Ministries in Sacramento. The show opens on Easter Sunday (April 16th) and an Artist Talk will be held the following week (April 23rd).
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December 2005
New Studio!
I've moved into a new studio in Downtown Sacramento. It is in an old warehouse building on 24th Street and has plenty of space (600 Sq. Ft.) a sink, communal bathroom, heating and cooling. In short it is a near perfect work space for me. Here are some pictures.
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