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\n\n Opening Reception
\n Thursday\, Dec.
13\, 2012\, 5:30-7 p.m.
\n Upcoming NEW/NOW artist Ton y de los Reyes has spent the last decade visually interpreting and expandi ng on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. He infuses the classic genre and narrative tradition of “history painting” with modern aesthetics\, drawin g on minimalism\, abstraction\, and a wide variety of media not merely to illustrate\, but to “reconstruct the epic in a transitional space between literature\, political history\, and contemporary art.”
\n\n In cons tructing dramatic permutations of the text\, de los Reyes creates a mythic vision of America and its enduring national obsessions\, envisioning the same insatiable and self-destructive nature that definesMoby Dick’s Captain Ahab. Raw linen stained with sumi ink\, pure black and white pigm ents\, and sanguine red bister visually enhance the aura of bloodlust and violence in de los Reyes evocative and allegorical work.
\n\n De los Reyes has held countless exhibitions on the West Coast and throughout the country. Last year\, he received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award and was named the Mid-Career Artist Fellow by California Community Foundation in recognition of his outstanding creative accomplish ments.
\n\n The NEW/NOW Series is made possible by the generous supp ort of Marzena and Greg Silpe.
\n\n\nPhone: 8602290257\n\n56 Lexington st\n56 Lexington st\nNew Britain\, CT\n06052\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130303 LOCATION:New Britain Museum of American Art PRIORITY: SUMMARY:NEW/NOW: Tony de los Reyes URL:http://www.nbmaa.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR