Open Wide 2023 32x25

Year2023

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassWood Frame 

Purchased fromArtist 2022 

Story / Additional InfoThis is an example of a process the artist has been refining for a number of years. She works on canvas and glues down scraps of xeroxed paper with shapes and textures selected from many sources. Then she paints with oils in the final stages. This abstract is quite bold, with bright, hypnotic colors and the nonobjective product also hints of a landscape or other image almost, but not quite definable. Most of this artist's work is figurative so this abstract departure is somewhat rare. She worked to keep recognizable subject matter out of the painting, but when giving the work a title, she was struck by the forms moving across the canvas that appear to be ingesting other forms, thus the title, "Open Wide". The viewer is invited to take this wherever their imagination wanders. This "storyline" may change with the viewer's state of mind. Some sense of undersea forms. 

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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.