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Michael Naranjo

Michael Naranjo (Born 1944) is active/lives in New Mexico.  Michael Naranjo is known for Realist bronze sculpture-Indian figure.

Biography photo for Michael Naranjo
The following information, submitted November 2012 by Paul Henrickson, is a gallery review of about 14 years ago from about an ebook on Santa Fe artists, titled In Broad Daylight.

Like Georgia O'Keeffe, Naranjo exhibits a sense of proper integration of technique with content, without sacrificing aesthetic sensibility.
 
Although, I regret having to mention it, the fact that Michael Naranjo is blind, and, from report, also lacking the full use of one hand, bears strongly on his remarkable achievement. Even without these physical limitations his work would be sculpturally impressive, but the blindness is, I believe, inextricably a factor in the appearance of his bronze figures of Indians in various poses.
 
My attention was first drawn to the very highly successful pieces, War Dancer, Spirit, Buffalo Dancer, Native, and Devil Dancer. I stood amazed.
 
These works raise the question as the nature of vision and the relationship b   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14567 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Michael Naranjo

   Publications  Book References:  9
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Michael Naranjo
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews City Focus-Getting Stronger and Mor July 2004 Indyke, Dottie Yes
Southwest Art Michael Naranjo April 2002 Indyke, Dottie Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West June 1998 Busler, Leslie Yes
9 Book References for Michael Naranjo
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1996 White, Robert (Editor) New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995 88 No
1990 Michael Naranjo, Sculpture 0 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1980 Highwater, Jamake The Sweet Grass Lives On: Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists 192 Yes
1980 Highwater, Jamake The Sweetgrass Lives On Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists 192 Yes
1975 Nelson, Mary Carroll Michael Naranjo 0 No
1959 Wenzell, C R Artists of Santa Fe: Their Works and Words 50 No
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