Peyton Wright Gallery is pleased to present “The Song Of
Stars,” an exhibition of paintings by Jicarilla Apache artist and
musician Darren Vigil Gray (b. 1959) in his first solo New
Mexico exhibition in more than half a decade.
The exhibit commences on Friday, August 8, 2025, with an
opening reception at 5 p.m., and continues through Tuesday,
September 29.
Since the 1980s, Gray has been known for dynamic works that
probe personal and tribal mythologies, portraiture, the broad
landscape of northern New Mexico, and abstraction. Renowned
critic and curator Lucy Lippard said of his work, “Gray has found
his true place in the act of painting, in brushstrokes informed by dreams and visions that transcend the personal
and the local.” Indeed, Gray’s paintings circumvent a strict tribal ethos while accessing the deep mythological
current that runs through his psyche.
In the artist’s first exhibition at Peyton Wright Gallery in nearly a quarter century, recent as well as brand new
paintings of landscapes and dreamscape
