San Joaquin Foothills 2020 26x28 - Central Valley, California

Year2020

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromArtist 2020 

Story / Additional InfoThe artist often travels through the San Joaquin foothills to accompany her partner to his music gigs in Oakhurst, Mariposa, Shaver and other mountain destinations. She created this painting from memory and took liberties with color and composition, emphasizing the rolling hills in a semi-abstract style. The red trees have a fauvist influence as do the purple, pink and turquoise landscape elements. This is definitely an artist's interpretation of the landscape as she's passing through it. The bottom layer of the painting is composed of acrylic texture on top of which the artist has painted with oils, creating a textured but transparent effect. 

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LID163067

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.