I created drawings of people and native characters. My art education includes studies in Junior High, High School and College. In 1976, I enrolled at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico and received an Associate of Fine Arts Degree in 1978. I continued studies in two-dimensional design at the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta Georgia. Attended courses in Wildlife and Business Management at the Gila Pueblo College and the University of Phoenix in Arizona.

Doing research and utilizing the information gathered from authors and pictorial archives of my people I typically paint from digital images I've taken; inspirational subjects of models and scenery from Apache country as references. I upload my images to my computer and begin the process of editing and cropping out scenery I dont need. In this manner, I can stay out of uncooperating weather and bring the outdoors inside and never lose the angle or colors over time. My work has been displayed in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Illinois, California and Texas. Monitoring the statistical evaluations from my website control panel, the International exposure of my artwork in 37 countries include Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chili, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and United Kingdom. In recent years my originals have been juried in several of the major Art competitions. In 1993 I participated in the International annual Arts For The Parks juried competition held in Jackson Hole, WY and was recognized and selected in the top 100 paintings from among 1,500 entries. From my participation in this show, I also received the Award of Excellence from the Academy of Arts.

The highlight of my artistic career to date has been to have a couple of my pieces to hang in the same exhibition alongside the masterpieces of such reknowned Western artists as George Phippen, Ray Swanson, Robert Shufeldt, CM Russell, Frederick Remington, Olaf Weighorst, Howard Terpning and others.s

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The granduer of two dimensional design is how unique you can duplicate an original, painted only by God."

Lorenzo Cassa(Manuel)

At this present stage of my rendering, I’ve noticed a sudden change that is taking place and that is, my attempt to isolate the ways of my people the Apache, from the stereotypical renegade to a class of people whose ways were indeed formidable but unique and special. A miniscule illumination of what the struggle for survival and the contrasting love for nature might have been is the window I attempt to open for the viewer to interpret “way back when”. Always contemplating the masterpiece that continues to elude me and lay’s within the mental sketch of my next work of genius, I’m satisfied only long enough to continue the cycle but I hope to reach my goal where I’m able to interpret without explanation, the significance of the depiction of a people that fought hard and died to stem the tide of encroachment upon the land that was rightfully theirs and how they were accurate in the importance of respecting the earth and it’s Creator, a passage that is lost to all but a few of the majority of the human race. I want to accomplish this without the morbidity of dark or death colors and stay within the aspects of the hues in the rainbow, like creating a silver lining.

All of the art displayed here is available in gallery wrapped limited edition giclée on canvas prints. If you are interested in buying the original, please contact me at lorenzo@lorenzocassa.com

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