Black Snake Moan 2017 36x30

Year2017

Hand SignedLower Right and on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedCanvas on Stretcher Bars 

Purchased fromArtist 2017 

Story / Additional InfoThe artist is a fan of blues and jazz and this work is inspired by many live music events she has attended. At times she takes photos and then works from them later. In this work, she incorporates some musicians she is acquainted with. Here she is trying to capture the essence of the nightclub music scene, with its swirl of colors that blend with the jazzy sounds. The music stirs her imagination and she sees visual images sometimes referred to as hypnogogic. They arise solely out of the music, not hallucinogenic sources. The horn in this painting has turned into a snake which relates to the title of a blues song, “Black snake Moan”. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID165146

Dixie Salazar - United States

Art Brokerage: Dixie Salazar Hispanic - American Artist: Dixie Salazar is a Central Valley, California artist who has been working in a number of mediums, including oils, watercolors, collage, assemblage, and hand-colored photography for the past forty years or more. Her work has been shown extensively in the Central Valley, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York and Merced, at the Merced Multi-cultural Art Museum in 2005. This was a one person show of oils and painted collage, exploring her dual (Hispanic and Anglo) heritage. Other one person shows occurred in 2006 at Arte Americas in Fresno and Educational Employees Credit Union in Sacramento. A large body of figurative work was also shown at the Patterson Building in Fresno in 2006 in a show titled "Escaping Gravity". In 2013 Dixie had a one person show at Arte Americas in Fresno, INTERCONNECTIONS, painted collages that explored Mayan symbols and history relating them to contemporary issues. In the past five years, Dixie has entered a number of shows in California, Oregon and on the East Coast, winning a number of first place awards and several Best of Shows. Her latest show was a one person show at the Pacific Grove Monterrey Peninsula College Art Museum. Dixie Salazar is also a poet with three books of poetry published and a novel, LIMBO, published in 1995. Listings wanted.