Tony de los Reyes: The Dart
Heather James Fine Art is pleased to present new paintings, works on paper and sculpture by artist Tony de los Reyes. Titled "The Dart", the exhibition is on view March 26 - May 2011. Based on Herman Melville’s 1851 classic Moby-Dick, this is Tony de los Reyes’ fourth exhibition in the series inspired by the great American novel and first solo exhibition at Heather James Fine Art. The title "The Dart" is from chapter 62 of the book and is also whalemen’s slang for a harpoon. "The Dart" is also the title of a life-size black/bronze harpoon in the show which dramatically hangs point–down from the ceiling in the center of the gallery. De los Reyes’ paintings are a combination of raw linen, first wet and stained with washes of sumi ink, then later applied with oil. He only uses white and black pigments—never mixed—which conceptually ties to Moby-Dick’s forces of structural antagonism and oppositional energies. The dominate surfaces of the paintings are usually very thin, which de los Reyes then interrupts with areas of thick opacity, relating to Melville’s permeating philosophy of dualism inherent in the book.
- Contact:
- Emily Friedman
- emily@heatherjames.com
- 760-346-8926
