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ARTIST STATEMENT
My painting process involves a flow of touch oriented repetitive labor. Each painting's success hinges on my ability to balance both thought and feeling within a ruminative, open-ended process. Ultimately, these works are humble and careworn objects that record my attempt to find a geometric order in the broad possibilities of sensate experience.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Christopher Reno studied painting, drawing and printmaking at Knox College, The New York Studio School, Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas and the MFA program of The University of Iowa. He is currently the Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Additionally, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Humility Homes and Services, Inc., a non-profit based in Davenport, Iowa dedicated to providing affordable housing opportunities for everyone in the Quad Cities region. Christopher Reno lives in Galesburg, Illinois.
