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Artist Statement:
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Artist Exhibitions:
Bernie Granados Jr.
Showroom at FramePros Custom
Framing
418 North Glendale Ave.,
Glendale, California
818-507-9129
The Artist’s Websites:
www.elstudiogranados.com
www.clearedart.com
Phone: 818-240-4421 Email:
fineart@elstudiogranados.com
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Bernie Granados Jr. Biography:
| Biographical information for Bernie Granados Jr. can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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63
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Professional Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Piquant cooking, Gardening, Cartography, and making Masks. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Surrealism - (1924 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rance Hood
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Japanese viewing stones
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The creative experience itself: the inspiration, the challenge, the travail, and the satisfaction of finishing something worth doing. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
The spirit of art called me, and at a very young age, I responded. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Bernie Granados Jr. Contemporary Multi-media Fine Artist
Bernie Granados,Jr. is a multi-talented artist who works in a wide variety of mediums, including embossed acrylic paintings, watercolor, Prismacolor pencil, pen and ink drawings, wood carvings, ceramic, and bronze. Drawing from his Apache and Zacatec roots, Mr. Granados produces paintings, sculptures, masks, prints, and miniatures featuring beautiful images of horses, buffalo, and ancient ancestral figures inspired by by visions and cave art throughout America. He finds inspiration in Nature’s force and beauty, his smarter-than-human quarter horses, his fellow artists, and his love and respect for the Creator.
As a youth he derived inspiration from the old and contemporary masters, spending much time in art galleries and museums and enjoying time in the presence of these celebrated pieces of art history.
Mr. Granados is a gifted teacher who headed the Fine Arts Department of the Intertribal Pre-University Summer Program at University of California, Irvine and taught at the High School of the Arts in Los Angeles. He is listed in the Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Bernie was one of the featured artists in the LACMA Exhibition 'Native Artists for the 21st. Century.' He created the 'MADCOWpony' for Horsepower New Mexico’s 'Trail of Painted Ponies.'
He has worked in the film industry for 33 years and maintains a 'fine-arts-for-motion-pictures' website, clearedart.com, that features fine arts commissions and rentals, for the industry. Granados’ works are collected by such notables as Ben Kingsley, Dustin Hoffman, and Ted Turner. His artworks have been used in such shows as 'The Native Americans', 'Highway to Heaven', 'Gabriel’s Fire', 'Who’s Harry Crumb?', “Evolution and most recently, 'C.S.I.'.
Today Mr. Granados’ ongoing passion is helping Native youth cultivate their artistic talent and knowledge. He is currently Artist in Residence at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. Mr. Granados currently is a Board Member, and on the faculty, of the San Joaquin River Intertribal Heritage Educational Corporation, where he also shares, through teaching, his knowledge and talent.
Bernie is a co-founder of Native Mentors.com, a program which provides an educational opportunity for Native youths to learn more about the arts from the Native professionals in the community. He is also webmaster and partner of the American Indian Families Partnership. indianfamilies.org This curriculum is now available for tribes to develop native youth’s artistic techniques at the professional level.
The artist offers many editions in multiple ceramic tiles, bronzes, giclees, masks, and metal embossments.
Bernie Granados Jr., Artist’s Highlights
1967 Artist opened first art gallery “Originals by Granados” Encinitas, Calif.
1973 “New Works, mixed-media paintings, assemblages” Pacific Asian Art Museum, Pasadena, Calif.
1976 “Solo Shows” Brookside Wineries, Glendale, and Marina Del Rey, Calif.
“Viaje Infinito” Infinite Voyages, Goez Gallery, East Los Angeles, Calif.
1978 “Featured Artist” Feathers Gallery, Scottsdale, Ariz.
1979 “Decade, a Ten-Year Retrospective” The Colonnade, Pasadena, Calif.
1980 “Featured Artist” Many Horses Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
1981 “One Man Show” Glory Hole Gallery, Columbia, Calif.
1984 “Native American Images” Jamestown Gallery, Jamestown, Calif.
1985 “Special Exhibition of New Works” Grey Goose Gallery, Jamestown, Calif.
1987 'The Embossed Acrylic Painting Technique' invented by artist.
1987 “Buffalo Spirit Dancers” Turquoise Tortoise Gallery, Sedona, Ariz.
1988 “Contemporary Embossed Paintings” Lanning Gallery, Sedona, Ariz.
1989 “One Man Show” Galleria Santa Fe, Encinitas, Calif.
1990 “Solo Exhibition” Two Bears Gallery, Brentwood,Calif.
1991 “One man Show” Forms Gallery, Delray Beach, Fla.
1992 “Two Man Show, with Michael Horse” Forms Gallery, Delray Beach, Fla.
1995 Co-Curated, and exhibited in “Spirit Horses” A 2-year exhibition
celebrating the relationship between the native peoples and the horse.
The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
1996 “Artist’s 20-year Retrospective” Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
1997 “One Man Show” Blaze Gallery, Manzanita, Ore.
“Solo Exhibition” American Shadows Gallery” Lincoln City, Ore.
1998 “Featured Artist Exhibition” Frederika Day Gallery, Weaverville, Calif.
1999 “One Man Show” Blaze Gallery, Cannon Beach, Ore.
2000 “Native Artists For the 21st. Century” L. A. County Museum of Art, L.A., CA
2001 “Featured Native Artist” Leona King Gallery, Scottsdale, Ariz.
“Solo Exhibition” Round Dance Indian Art Gallery, Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
“Art from the First People” Friends Gallery, Pasadena, Calif.
2002 “One Man Show” Eldorado Gold Jewelers, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2003 Curated 'Native Voices' contemporary Native American art exhibit at the Friend's Gallery, Pasadena, California.
2005 Some of Bernie's art included in the new California/Southwest Hall Exhibit at the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. through 2007.
Special Exhibits:
“Native American Maskmakers” Two Bears Gallery, Brentwood, Calif.
“Peppertree Ranch Invitationals” Los Olivos, Calif.
“Intertribal Marketplace” Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
“Prescott American Indian Art Market” Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ
“Native American Masks” Raven Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn.
“American Indian Exhibition” Hilton of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“MADCOW pony” decorated horse, Trail of Painted Ponies, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Set Design, and solo exhibit for “All’s Well That Ends Well” Luckmann Theater, Cal State Los Angeles, Calif.
Artworks used for Turner Network’s “The Native Americans” movie of the week.
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