page_title: Ray Abeyta
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ray Abeyta / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Ray Abeyta's studio as he left it in December 2014. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
context_page_description: Ray Abeyta was an American painter of Basque descent. He was born Raymond Martìn Abeyta, on November 13, 1956, in the small village of Santa Cruz in the Española Valley, New Mexico. Abeyta's paintings are a hybrid of ancient and contemporary Latino subject matter in the Cuzco School style of Madonna painting, lowrider culture, New Mexican traditional retablo painting, and representations of the colonialist encounters between Europeans and Mesoamericans.
context_section_description: Abeyta moved from New Mexico to New York in 1986, and settled into a warehouse studio in the North Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. In 1989 he met his future wife, Alyssa Jill Glantz (d. 2017), a business woman and community organizer, whom he married in 1992. They had two children, Elija and Izzy. They established the bar and entertainment venue Union Pool, Hotel Delmano and other venues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was affectionately known as the honorary Mayor of Williamsburg.
  Abeyta was a vintage automobile and motorcycle enthusiast, and owned and restored a 1956 Ford F100 pickup truck and a 1968 Triumph motorcycle. He was the co-owner of Works Engineering, a motorcycle repair shop in Brooklyn.
caption: Work in progress in Ray Abeyta's studio, December 4, 2014
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