Tony de los Reyes

As an artist of partial Mexican ancestry, I have spent the past decade making a multi-faceted series of paintings and works on paper based on the US-Mexico border. These works challenge common conceptions of the border as a region of purely political and economic value, and move its conversations towards a more nuanced aggregate of cultural, geographic, and psychological dimensions. I work towards a spectrum that includes the construct of nationalism, the border’s portrayal within a mythic, “untamed” American west, and a set of topographies that oscillate between sublime landscapes and abstract finitudes.