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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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