Download or read book Cuentos Y Encuentros written by Ray Martín Abeyta and published by Museum of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the effects of cross-cultural contact in the Americas, Brooklyn-based artist (and native New Mexican) Abeyta creates masterful oil paintings in a Spanish Baroque style infused with contemporary subject matter. His paintings combine ancient and contemporary Latino subjects-Cuzco style Madonnas, lowriders, Mexican wrestlers, Spanish matadors, New Mexican traditions, and the encounter of Europeans and Mesoamericans.