About Rondall Reynoso

My faith deeply influences my professional work. My writing and editorial work here on Faith on View engages with practical and political theology. In my scholarship, I explore the relationship between modern and contemporary art and religion, particularly Christianity. I also consider my artwork to be visual theology. The abstract imagery is infused with spiritual content that probes many of the same subjects I explore in my writing.

Religiously, I have long called myself “uncomfortably” evangelical. That discomfort has increased in recent years as evangelical has increasingly become a political and nationalistic term in the United States. I am fully devoted to Christ and possibly too stubbornly hold on to the term evangelical. Evangelical comes from the Greek word euangelion meaning “good news.” I believe in a God who extends His prodigal grace and unbounded love to the world. I believe in a faith that is truly good news for humanity. Further, I believe that we need to “love loudly” so that, hopefully, we can be a counterbalance to loud voices of hate in the world who claim their hate is rooted in God.

On the personal side, I am married with five kids, all still at home. We have five cats and two dogs. So, the house is FULL. I work too much, but when I am not working, I enjoy watching shows with my family and playing games. Truth be told, I’m a bit of a nerd. I love nerdy games such as HeroScape, Yugioh, Palladium, Civilization, and League of Legends. I watch Science Fiction and Super Hero movies and shows with my kids…but I’d watch, even if they didn’t. I also like sports. I am a fan of the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Chargers, which means I am well acquainted with disappointment. But my family isn’t into sports, so I watch those alone.

As for the official-sounding biography:

Rondall Reynoso is currently an assistant professor of art and program coordinator in Tennessee. He studied studio art and art history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where he received his M.F.A. in painting and a Masters in art history. Currently, he is a Ph.D. Candidate in art history and aesthetics in the Historical & Cultural Studies of Religion department at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His work has been exhibited in over ninety solo and group exhibitions across North America. He has also been profiled, and his work reviewed across the nation in regional media, including journals, newspapers, television, and radio. Reynoso’s formal abstraction deals heavily with metaphors, both sociological and spiritual, including the exploration of the boundaries between 2-D and 3-D as a metaphor for the relationship between the corporeal and the spiritual. Reynoso was one of seven North American artists selected by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity to take part in a cross-cultural seminar in Indonesia, from which an international traveling exhibition emerged. He has also taught at Louisiana College, Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, William Jessup University, Graduate Theological Union, California College of the Arts, and Lee University.