Ranzy

Art Brokerage: Ranzy American Artist: Ranzy was born in Weatherford, Texas and spent his childhood in Oklahoma, home to the Kiowa. He served in the U.S. Army for eight years and eventually moved to Stockton, Ca. But it is likely he made these paintings while still on the Southern Plains. Ranzy is the pen name of a Kiowa Peyote Priest known for relying on peyote-inspired visions as inspiration for his bizarre, outsiderish paintings in sand. He also went by the charmingly self-deprecating pseudonym Chief Charging Skunk and signed his work with the name Ranzy and a picture of a skunk. His use of psychedelics in studio practice predates that of his euro-centric counterparts in the counter culture by 30 years. His comfort fusing styles and cultures, sand painting with Christian iconography, predates by a decade the hybrid modernism of the Indian space painters. His images are crude, bizarre, borderline indecipherable things that look more like 19th century needlework samplers than any kind of painting taking place in his lifetime. Listings wanted.