Tony Abeyta with Mateo Romero and works by Fritz Scholder 2019

TON Y ABE Y TA | MATEO ROMERO FRIT Z SC HOLDER (1937-20 05)

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February 25 – March 9, 2019 Scottsdale Meet the Artists | February 28 | 6:30–9:00pm

TON Y ABE Y TA WIT H MATEO ROMERO A ND WORK BY FRIT Z SC HOLDER

Jackson Hole | Scottsdale | AltamiraArt.com

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Aguacero De Primavera Oil on canvas | 68 x 40 inches | Tony Abeyta Enquire

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Tony Abeyta

With every exhibition, Tony Abeyta builds on his past presentations, ever challenging himself, ever expanding his technical and conceptual range. “It’s a continuing journey of working with diversity,” says the contemporary Navajo painter, “of trying to push what I have done for my last show.”

His current cohort finds him exploring wide terrain from modernist landscapes to abstractions—a place-inspired spectrum befitting an artist who splits his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Berkeley, California. The light characteristic of northern California has influenced many of the works at Altamira—a luminosity registered in the moments he pulls from memory.

Abeyta lets place influence his paintings, rooting his practice in close observation and varied travel. His kinetic process translates into the diversity of his work, from the small paintings he produces on the road to the large canvases he labors over in his studio.

With every painting, Abeyta focuses on the process. Recently, while working on

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a landscape, he stepped back to take in the scene and consider, “What are those clouds doing? How are they moving? How are they interacting with each other?”

In this attentive moment, he noticed a rabbit in the clouds—an unconscious cameo. He mulled its presence: should he let the bunny be, a playful suggestion of the associative parade that naturally happens during cloud gazing? Or would it become a distraction from the rest of the composition? As in nature, cloud forms disappear and fade and transform into other things. “What will it be next?” he asked himself. “How can I assist in that transformation?”

Abeyta lets his paintings become what they will, free of his premeditation. So too he lets them coalesce into shows within the space of the gallery, only coming together in that context, resolved as singular scenes and collective concepts. Through lines surface, surprising even him. As such, his paintings encourage discovery by the audience and the artist alike. The presence of his paintings elicits everyone to be present.

Mateo Ramero

Contemporary Cochiti Pueblo painter Mateo Romero is an internationally known artist. He attended Dartmouth College and studied with acclaimed artists Ben Frank Moss and Varujan Boghosian.

“My paintings are based in abstract expressionist references. Bold colors slash across canvas, hot color vibrates next to cold, drips and smears hover over the surface. Action painting references abound in stabbing, gestural marks. Artists like Franz Kline, William De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell are companions along this urgent pathway of color and surface.” –Mateo Romero

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WORKS BY TON Y ABE Y TA

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Winter’s Song Mixed media | 50 x 50 inches Enquire

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Guardian Oil on canvas | 60 x 48 inches Enquire

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Mountain Falls Oil on canvas | 24 x 30 inches Enquire

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Quiet Canyon Rain Oil on canvas | 45 x 50 inches Enquire

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Clouds Casting Shadows, 2019 Oil on canvas | 12 x 10 inches Enquire

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River Bend Oil on canvas | 6 x 6 inches Enquire

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Dynamic Rhythms Oil on canvas | 62 x 58 inches Enquire

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Purple Sage Messenger Oil on canvas | 46 x 38 inches Enquire

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WORKS BY MATEO ROMERO

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Butterfly Dancer Mixed media on canvas | 60 x 48 inches Enquire

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Tsi Ping Owingeh Oil on canvas | 24 x 30 inches Enquire

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Tsi Ping Owingeh #2 Oil on canvas | 16 x 20 inches Enquire

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Deer Dancer Mixed media on canvas | 30 x 24 inches Enquire

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Cuyamugeh Oil on canvas | 20 x 20 inches Kha Poeh Owingeh Mixed media on canvas | 14 x 11 inches Enquire

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Deer Dancer #3 Mixed media on canvas | 14 x 11 inches Enquire

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WORKS BY FRIT Z SC HOLDER (1937-20 05)

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Centaur #1, 1993 Oil and acrylic on canvas | 80 x 68 inches Enquire

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Imaginary Flower, 2003 Acrylic on canvas | 26 x 21 inches Petals, 2003 Acrylic on canvas | 14 x 11 inches Enquire

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Three Orchids, 2002 Acrylic on canvas | 30 x 40 inches Enquire

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Mystery Women with Shadow, 1989 Acrylic on canvas | 35 x 30 inches NYC 2.22.82, 1982 Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 inches Enquire

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New Mexico, #65/120, 1974 Lithograph | 30 x 22 inches | Edition of 120 Another Deco Indian, 1978 Artist Proof: Lithograph | 30 x 22 inches Enquire

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