Edie Reno
He Walks With Me
Underwritten by Bronwen Anderson in Memory of John & Pat Rudolph
About the Artist
Edie Reno of WhiteantelopeStudio has been creating art for nearly her entire life, beginning to draw and paint at just three years old and deciding by age six that she would become an artist after her grandmother gifted her an easel. Growing up on a Wyoming ranch, Edie found endless inspiration in the animals and landscapes around her, especially horses, antelope, and pronghorns.
Her early artistic influences came from books gifted by her grandmother featuring the work of artists including Charles M. Russell, Frederic Remington, Joe DeYong, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maynard Dixon, and Will James. At fourteen, Edie began sculpting with clay before eventually moving into wax sculpture and bronze casting.
Edie attended Northwest College in Powell on an art scholarship and later studied at the University of California Stanislaus, where she refined her skills under sculptor John Barnett while also working as a technician within the sculpture program. She additionally studied welding in Gillette, Wyoming.
Throughout her career, Edie has worked as both an artist and educator, teaching art in California, Montana, Wyoming, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her public art pieces and fundraising sculptures can be found throughout the region, including works displayed in Wright, Sheridan, Buffalo, Custer, and Casper.
About the Pronghorn
For this Parade of Pronghorns piece, Edie Reno transformed the sculpture through layers of handwritten text and color, building the surface line by line until it almost seems alive with movement and texture. The closer viewers get, the more details begin to emerge, including small hidden elements such as embedded pennies tucked throughout the artwork.
Bold, expressive, and deeply layered, the piece invites visitors to slow down and continue discovering something new each time they look at it.
Parade of Pronghorns
This pronghorn is part of the Rockpile Museum Association’s Parade of Pronghorns public art project and auction.