Tony Abeyta’s artwork will be a late addition; we will post as soon as we have an image and other information.

Raised in Gallup, New Mexico, in a community of artists, Tony Abeyta (Diné) is a mixed-media painter who splits his time between Santa Fe and Berkeley, California. Abeyta’s primary focus in his practice is the emotional impact of the landscape, which he explores by using a variety of media such as oil, sand, and charcoal. Evoking the idea that there is power in everything and everyone, Abeyta’s work engages frequently with complex Diné (Navajo) beliefs, and he spends “a lot of time deciphering the light, the cascades of mesas into canyons, the marriage between earth and sky and light” of New Mexico’s scenery. Refusing to work from photographs, Abeyta states that creation process happens on its own, “the way the painting tells me to,” rather than choosing which particular painting to work on at a given moment. The artwork needing attention draws him to itself. Abeyta notes that, regarding the landscape of his home state, “I am beckoned to remember it and then to paint it.”

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