Abeyta, Tony – Mixed Media Painting On Board

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Tony Abeyta · Mixed media on board · 30″ × 30″

A radiant, gold panel by Diné painter Tony Abeyta, Pollinator wraps its subject in a winding border of stylized flowers, coral, and blue blossoms trailing along green vines. At the center, set into a square of weathered verdigris and ringed with gilded studs, a brilliant blue-and-orange hummingbird dives toward a small bronze tree, backed by golden discs like a row of moons. It’s part painting, part sculpture: Abeyta builds real dimension into the surface, turning a simple moment of a bird coming to a branch into something quietly reverent. Hand-signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

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About the Artist

Tony Abeyta

b. 1965 · Diné (Navajo) painter · Santa Fe, New Mexico

Tony Abeyta is among the most celebrated Native American painters of his generation. Diné (Navajo) and born in Gallup, New Mexico, he was raised in a renowned family of artists and trained at the Institute of American Indian Arts and New York University, as well as in Italy and France.

Working in richly layered mixed media — sand, oil, acrylic, gold leaf, and collage — Abeyta paints the colors and spirit of the Southwest, drawing on ancestral Diné and Pueblo imagery alongside the language of American Modernism. His honors include the 2023 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, and his work is held in major museums nationwide, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

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