Tony Abeyta and Zoe Marieh Urness

Tony Abeyta + Zoe Marieh Urness NEW WORKS March 2-10, 2017

Reception: March 2, 6:30-9 pm

Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale

LEFT TO RIGHT: Tony Abeyta, Guardian, Mixed Media, 28" x 22"; Zoe Marieh Urness, Forever Free with Wind in My Hair, #1/15, Light exposed print mounted on aluminum dibond, 30"x 23"

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Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale is pleased to welcome Navajo contemporary artist Tony Abeyta and Tlingit Alaskan Native photographer Zoe Marieh Urness. New paintings by Abeyta and stunning photography from Urness will be on display at our Scottsdale gallery the week of February 27th.

Pre-sales available. Call 480-949-1256, or email az@altamiraart.com.

Meet the Artists Thursday, March 2 from 6:30-9pm during the annual Native Spirit ArtWalk on Main Street.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

TONY ABEYTA

Museum Collections • Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ • Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM • Harwood Museum, Taos, NM • National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC • Museum of Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM: Permanent Interior Mural In Main Gallery (2000)

•P alm Springs Fine Art Center, Palm Springs, CA •M useum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM •W heelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM • Montclaire Art Museum, Montclaire, NJ • I nstitute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM • Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA

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Tony Abeyta is a Navajo contemporary artist working in mixed media paintings. He is a graduate of New York University with an honorary doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He was the 2012 recipient of the New Mexico Governor’s Excellence in the Arts Award, and recognized as a Native treasure by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. Tony currently works in both Santa Fe, NM, and Berkeley, CA. His work is included in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian; Boston Fine Arts Museum; the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ; New Mexico Fine Arts Museum; the Autry Museum in Los Angeles; and the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis; as well as in many other public and private collections.

Abeyta’s primary focus has been on painting the emotional experience one finds in the New Mexico landscape. “There exists a rhythm in the land where I was born. I spend a lot of time deciphering the light, the cascades of mesas into canyons, the marriage between earth and sky and the light as it constantly changes at whim, the intensity of rock formations, and the sage and chamisa that accent this poetic experience, unlike anywhere else I have seen. I am beckoned to remember it and then to paint it.”

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

ZOE MARIEH URNESS

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Zoe Marieh Urness is a Tlingit Alaskan Native whose portraits of modern Natives in traditional regalia and settings deliver a message; “We are here. And we are thriving, through our traditions”.

Her unique style fuses documentary and fine art, with her imagery simultaneously reflecting the sensitivity and the ancestral strength of her subjects.

Zoe studied at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA, her current project focuses exclusively on sharing beautiful, powerful images of Indigenous Americans, and the lands and traditions they hold dear.

Recently, she visited the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the Hopi at Second Mesa, the Apache Crown Dancers at Monumental Valley, and the Alaskan natives at the biennial Celebration in Juneau.

She has shown abroad in the United Kingdom and has made show appearances at Photo L.A., During Art Basel Miami showing at SPECTRUM, the Heard Market, Native Treasures, and made her second appearance on the plaza at Indian Market, where she again won a blue ribbon in her category and added a second ribbon for best in division. The Autry Museum recognized Zoe’s recent image, Keeping Traditions Alive, best in her division. Her most works include images from the spiritual movement of Standing Rock.

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SHOW CATALOG

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JIVAN LEE

Tony Abeyta pages 10-15

Zoe Marieh Urness pages 16-21

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TONY ABEYTA

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TONY ABEYTA

Bounty from the Sky, Oil on Canvas, 64" x 60"

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TONY ABEYTA

Guardian, Mixed media with cottonwood carving, 28" x 22"

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TONY ABEYTA

Summer Spirit, Mixed Media, Sand, Oil, Copper on Canvas, 40" x 30"

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Modernist Yei Composition, Mixed Media: Sand, Oil, Copper on Canvas, 50" x 72"

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TONY ABEYTA

Realm of the Animal Spirits, Mixed Media, 60" x 82"

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ZOE MARIEH URNESS “As a native photographer from the Tlingit & Cherokee tribe being able to witness history unfold in array of events only predicated through prophesy has left me Forever Changed and reunited with my cultural roots, like the ones that were instilled in me as a child. Power of prayer and council. Belief in the spiritual workings from ancient times is a weapon that doesn’t need violence to win. History has been made in the unity of us all, spreading healing all around. On December 5th, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, military veterans march in support of the water protectors.” ~ Zoe Marieh Urness

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ZOE MARIEH URNESS

December 5, 2016, #1/15, Metallic print mounted with plexiglass 40" x 32" Edition of 15

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ZOE MARIEH URNESS

Forever Free with Wind in My Hair, #1/15, Light exposed print mounted on aluminum dibond, 30" x 23" Edition of 15

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ZOE MARIEH URNESS

The Boys, #1/15 Print mounted on aluminum dibond, 24" x 30" Edition of 15

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No Spiritual Surrender, #1/15 Light exposed print mounted on aluminum dibond, 32.5" x 65" Edition of 15

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ZOE MARIEH URNESS

Raven Tells His Story in the Fog, #8/15 Light exposed print mounted on aluminum dibond, 32.5" x 65" Edition of 15

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UPCOMING SHOWS IN SCOTTSDALE Jared Sanders and Robert McCauley “Shelter/ Edge of Town” March 6-18, 2017 ARTIST RECEPTION: March 9, 6:30-9pm Billy Schenck, Dennis Ziemienski & Robert Townsend, “Spring in the Desert” March 20 - April 1, 2017 ARTIST RECEPTION: March 23, 6:30-9pm

2 LOCATIONS: JACKSON, WY + SCOTTSDALE, AZ

172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256 For more information on gallery artists visit www.altamiraart.com