Navajo artist Tony Abeyta has worked in many media to create paintings using sand, layers of oil paints, encaustic wax and collage elements that include earth pigments, bronze and copper as well as gold leaf.
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© Jennifer Esperanza, Courtesy of Blue Rain Gallery

From the Curator of Collections: Diana Pardue

Although Tony Abeyta is known for colorful paintings that reflect his heritage, in recent years he occasionally has created black-and-white charcoal and ink-wash drawings. The Heard is pleased to offer a venue for Abeyta’s explorations in black and white. His new exhibit, Underworlderness, brings together three important elements that accomplish Abeyta’s goal. Several large-format paintings – all executed in black-and-white – explore themes of creation through primal representations of botanical and animal forms.

Abeyta’s mural and his drawings offer an exciting glimpse of new works by this creative artist.