Abstract Masks

Michelle Tsosie Naranjo


Savvy Price $485.00: Gallery Price $600.00

Title: Abstract Masks
Artist: Michelle Tsosie Naranjo
Medium: Mixed media on paper
Sight size: 10" height X 14 3/4" width
Frame: Two Alpha mat boards, regular glass, wood molding with gold gilded sight edge
Frame size: 19 1/2" height X 23 1/2" width
Signed: "M. Tsosie" at viewer's lower right
Date of creation: Circa 1990
Condition: Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
Provenance: AP Fenderson, acquired from Heard Museum shop November 1997

About The Abstract Masks

There are stylized feather designs around two circular elements at left of center.

Born in Albuquerque in 1959, Michelle is the daughter of Carol and Paul Tsosie (Navajo). Her marriage to a Santa Clara man shifted her orientation to Espanola, an urban center in the heart of the Rio Grande Pueblos, impacting the subject matter of her paintings.

In July 1989 she was awarded the Best of Fine Arts at the Fortieth Navajo Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona. Her work was included in an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Man titled "Paths Beyond Tradition" (May 20-September 4. 1989).

Naranjo's work is in the permanent collection of the Heard Museum and she has won several First place awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, as well as the Patrick Swazo Hinds Memorial Award for the most Promising Painter in 1981.

An artist featured in Patricia Broder's impressive publication Earth Songs, Moon Dreams Paintings by American Indian Women,we are told of the Naranjo's involvement with fashion as well as art.

Other Works By Michelle Tsosie Naranjo:

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