Joe Reno

Original, vintage works by legendary Seattle artist Joe Reno from the Barnhart collection. 

Born 1943 Seattle Washington, Joe Reno, as a young artist worked in the mailroom at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and took night classes at the Art

Students League. Aside from this period in New York and military duty in Germany, both in the 1960's, Reno has been a life-long resident of Seattle, with a home in the Ballard neighborhood.

At the age of six, Joe completed his first mural in wax crayon, from floor to ceiling on a wall at home. Reno has said that his reason for being is to make art, and he spends nearly all his time at it, sometimes producing dozens of paintings a week and other times taking months to finish one.

"When you're painting," Reno has said, "it's a state of Ecstasy-like peanut butter."

EXHIBITIONS
Museum of Northwest Art - MONA;
Center On Contemporary Art - CoCA;
Whatcom Museum

A mural by Joe Reno mural was just completed at Ballard High School.