Let It Be 2009 60x45 - Huge

Year2009

Hand SignedLower Right and on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2009 

Story / Additional InfoVery large oil painting from an earlier series exploring the artist’s mixed heritage (Hispanic and Anglo).The Virgin Mary statue reflects her father’s Catholic side. Anglo ancestors are depicted in the photo on the wall. The woman on the left is startled because there is a ghost like figure below her and she doesn’t recognize it immediately as a long dead ancestor. The eggs on the table are recurring images, often representing the cycle of life inherent in the generations. This is also an example of interior/exterior compositions the artist is fond of, influenced by the post impressionists, Matisse and Bonnard, which includes a full landscape in the window. She was also influenced by Freida Kahlo’s paintings of personal history.There is a sense of reaching into the past but the present intrudes with the soda can on the table. 

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LID165243

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.