Fantasy Landscape: Persistence 2020 31x25

Year2020

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassWood Frame 

Purchased fromArtist 2020 

Story / Additional InfoThis work was created with a number of others during the Covid lockdown times. The artist created landscapes rooted in reality, allowing her imagination to soar. She used collage elements xeroxed from old biology books and other sources mostly for texture and design elements. The colors are fanciful and suit the theme. She felt the strictures of isolation as depicted by the upper left hand figure, seeming to push against something hard uphill. Some could read a reference to the sisyphus myth, but the artist sees it as a symbol of persisting in times of duress. the red dog in the lower corner is a recurring element in her work as well as the palm tree. The textures in the work add to the mystery. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID164399

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.