#tony abeyta

Grand Canyon / Tony Abeyta / 2016 / Acrylic on linen, 60" x 157 ½.

Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.

Like the canyon itself, this mural is so big it feels like it can’t be taken in all at once.  Writing about his mural paintings, Abeyta has said, “Scale can change the way we as artists communicate our ideas. I love to work large with a freedom that challenges me to see my own ideas explode on a wall or canvas, and I believe there is a newfound relationship to context and to community. Through its very process, a mural must be deliberate and command attention that a smaller work doesn’t seem as likely to address.”