From the Line Series: The Red Door 2008 45x45 - Huge

Year2009

Hand SignedLower Right and on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2009 

Story / Additional InfoThe red line indicates the line between life and death. The woman in the foreground is locate in the present (a stand-in perhaps for the artist) and the girl in the back is the artist as a young girl. The figure holding the red line separates the two, with her back to the viewer and also looks into the past. The girl in the white dress could be having her first communion and although the artist was not raised Catholic, she was exposed to it through her cousins on her father’s side, Hispanic. It is a rite of maturity however, and the girl in the painting is reflecting on her impending sexuality. The red door also symbolizes the girl’s impending coming of age. The cactus and alibrije also represent the artist’s Hispanic heritage. A waterfall or deluge of water also moves between the two worlds creating a sort of stage on which the in between girl stands. The mature woman wears a Spanish shawl found in other works by the artist with her hair in the style of Frida Kahlo, another influence 

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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.