Creation Myths 2018 40x30 - Huge

Year2018

Hand SignedLower Right and on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

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Story / Additional InfoThis painting celebrates the artist as a creator in the broadest sense. Generic creation myths are referenced and the figures are presented metaphorically, as faceless, non specific beings who represent the basic human need to create. One figure holds a baby, another kneels, with an umbilical chord that leads to a baby on the right side of the painting. Swirls of color surround the stylized figures and shapes that create an imaginary landscape. The artist has struggled with identity at times in her life and suggests in this work that her identity is tied up with being an artist. She is also half Anglo and half Hispanic which has created an identity crisis for her in the past and this work is an attempt to individuate or bring together disparate elements of herself, celebrating the creative spirit. 

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LID164281

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.