Desert and Ocean 26x26

Year2022

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromArtist 2022 

Story / Additional InfoIn this painting, the artist combines two loves - the ocean and the desert. It takes place in her imagination but could exist in some places where the two meet. She also has other paintings with a fish bowl placed in front of the sea, with the ocean peeking through the bowl. The curtain on the side is another of her signature images. The painting has a heavy impasto surface on the bottom and layers of oil paints on top, giving a transparent, yet textured look. The curtain gives the feeling of a window and looking through the fish bowl to the ocean gives the effect of many layers of foreground to background. The clouds are stylized as are the spaces around the bowl, lending a semi-abstract feel to the work. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID163071

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.