New Mexico Magazine
Art, Trauma, and the Abeyta Family Legacy
BEYOND THE SANTA FE PLAZA, where history pulses and church bells ring, you climb the creaking steps to Tony Abeyta’s studio. As you ascend, the scents of oil paint, dust, and something like old leather infuse the air. It’s easy to imagine that you are breathing in Paris, Venice, or New York City—because if an artistic legacy were a scent, this would be it. Here, on the ancestral homeland of the Tewa people, Abeyta documents the landscape around him, using abstraction, vivid colors, and enormous canvases to tell a story as if the land, too, were a person living through uncertain times.
