Warmth radiates like desert heat from the sun-soaked colors and reverent expressions in Tony Abeyta’s “Remembered Ancients.” Hailing from New Mexico, Abeyta is a Navajo artist whose works depict his tribe’s belief that a higher power infuses everything and everyone. Abeyta studied at the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Art, the Maryland College Institute of Art, abroad in France and Italy, and as a graduate student at Chicago’s Art Institute. Experimenting with techniques, images and mediums, Abeyta utilizes oil, charcoal and sand in the bold turquoises, reds and purples that represent his homeland.

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