Fire Goddess by the Sea 2011 25x19

Year2011

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassWood Frame 

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Story / Additional InfoWhile vacationing at the coast, the artist was reading a book about mythology and became interested in the fire goddess, common to African, Asian, Native American mythology and more. Fire plays an important role many human mythologies around the world and is central to human civilization. The artist often juxtaposes disparate elements in her work, in this case, fire and water. The fire goddess figurine is posed in front of a window, with the sea in the background. As she has in many other paintings, the artist incorporates a background with a landscape and an interior, elements favored by both Bonnard and Matisse. The red ladder often appears in her work, symbolizing a search for awareness and perhaps enlightenment. 

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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.