{"id":2135,"date":"2025-07-05T21:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juanbutten.com\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2025-07-09T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:42:38","slug":"ray-one-the-magic-of-art-transition-from-wall-to-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juanbutten.com\/es\/ray-one-the-magic-of-art-transition-from-wall-to-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray One: La magia del arte \u2013 Transici\u00f3n del muro al lienzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>por Juan Butten<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray One, nombre art\u00edstico de Ram\u00f3n Torres, naci\u00f3 en San Jos\u00e9 de las Matas, Rep\u00fablica Dominicana. Aunque su nombre es Ram\u00f3n, casi todo el mundo lo conoce como \u201cRay\u201d, un apodo que surgi\u00f3 en su infancia cuando su madre, al verlo constantemente rayando cuadernos, mascotas y cualquier superficie a su alcance, exclamaba: \u201c\u00a1Mi hijo, todo lo tuyo es rayar y rayar!\u201d As\u00ed se qued\u00f3: Ray. Y ese nombre terminar\u00eda escribi\u00e9ndose en cientos de muros y corazones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mediados de los a\u00f1os 80, ya radicado en Nueva York, Ray One comenz\u00f3 a dejar su huella en la cultura urbana de East New York, Brooklyn. Su firma aparec\u00eda en p\u00f3sters de fiestas de rap \u2014las famosas \"partys\"\u2014 organizadas por las comunidades latina y afroamericana. Pronto se convirti\u00f3 en un artista \u201call city\u201d dentro del mundo del graffiti, alcanzando notoriedad como uno de los protagonistas de la cultura hip hop de esa \u00e9poca. Su talento lo llev\u00f3 a estudiar en la prestigiosa High School of Art and Design, de donde han egresado figuras como Lee Qui\u00f1ones, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs y LaQuan Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La magnitud de su trabajo fue tan grande que algunos pensaban que Ray One era un colectivo, no una sola persona. Su arte ha dejado huellas no solo en Nueva York, sino tambi\u00e9n en Panam\u00e1, Colombia y, de manera muy especial, en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana, donde ha intervenido muros en casi todas las provincias, llevando un mensaje de fe y esperanza centrado en Cristo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En el a\u00f1o 2010, Ray decidi\u00f3 regresar definitivamente al pa\u00eds, cruzando el oc\u00e9ano Atl\u00e1ntico \u2014espec\u00edficamente el mar Caribe\u2014 con su esposa y sus hijos. En una conversaci\u00f3n personal, cuando a\u00fan yo no hab\u00eda emigrado, le pregunt\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 decidi\u00f3 volver, y me respondi\u00f3 con orgullo: \u201cAqu\u00ed puedo darle una mejor educaci\u00f3n a mis hijos y estar m\u00e1s cerca de mi gente.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De regreso en tierra dominicana, Ray encontr\u00f3 trabajo, y casi sin propon\u00e9rselo, volvi\u00f3 a pintar muros. Un compa\u00f1ero lo invit\u00f3 a participar en una jornada de muralismo en la zona oriental de Santo Domingo. Al principio se neg\u00f3, pero el amigo fue a buscarlo, y al ver el muro, Ray sinti\u00f3 nuevamente la alegr\u00eda de pintar. Desde entonces, no ha parado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La exposici\u00f3n que hoy presenta en Galer\u00eda 360, ubicada en la avenida John F. Kennedy, casi esquina Abraham Lincoln, estar\u00e1 abierta desde el 4 de julio hasta el 4 de agosto. Esta muestra es un recorrido visual que marca su transici\u00f3n del muro al lienzo, sin perder la esencia de sus or\u00edgenes callejeros ni su compromiso con la verdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las obras, en su mayor\u00eda elaboradas con spray y t\u00e9cnicas mixtas, est\u00e1n impregnadas de sinceridad. Ray no pretende aparentar: pinta lo que ve, lo que siente, lo que vive. Desde sus inicios ha sido un cronista visual de la realidad dominicana. Ya a comienzos de los 90s, cre\u00f3 un mural titulado \u201cUSA Welcomes Our Troops Back\u201d, en protesta por el env\u00edo de soldados latinos a la guerra, ubicado en Broadway, cerca de la parada Eastern Parkway en Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En Rep\u00fablica Dominicana, ha pintado decenas de murales con mensajes como \u201cNO VIOLENCIA CONTRA LA MUJER\u201d, recibiendo el primer lugar en un concurso de murales en Boca Chica. Tras el asesinato de una pareja en Villa Altagracia, Ray escribi\u00f3 en letras gigantes sobre un muro: \u201cNO ME MATES, QUE ESTOY ORANDO POR TI\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En 2023, su mural del rostro de la arquitecta Leslie Rosado, ubicado en la avenida San Mart\u00edn casi esquina M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez, capt\u00f3 la atenci\u00f3n de medios nacionales. En \u00e9l exig\u00eda justicia y claridad sobre el caso, demostrando que su arte sigue siendo una herramienta de denuncia y memoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray One es un artista de oficio, comprometido con su fe, su comunidad y su visi\u00f3n cr\u00edtica del pa\u00eds. Su discurso ha intentado ser censurado en ocasiones, pero ha resistido con firmeza. Para m\u00ed, conocer a Ray no solo ha sido un privilegio art\u00edstico, sino tambi\u00e9n una experiencia humana invaluable. Es m\u00e1s que un artista: es un amigo, un hermano del muro y de la vida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RayOne #StreetArt #GraffitiArt #UrbanArt #ArteUrbano #ArtExhibition #DominicanArt #CaribbeanArtists #FromGraffitiToGallery #ArtAsResistance #ArteConIdentidad #DiasporaArt #Artivism #ArtAndFaith #VisualProtest #ArtThatSpeaks #MuralesQueHablan #ArtistsOnInstagram #ArteDominicano #ArteYConciencia #SprayArt #PublicArt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juan Butten Ray One, the artistic name of Ram\u00f3n Torres, was born in San Jos\u00e9 de las Matas, Dominican [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ray One: A Life in Color, Born from the Streets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover the journey of Ray One, a Dominican graffiti pioneer whose work spans from the streets of Brooklyn to the walls of Santo Domingo. 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