Synesthesia Still Life 2020 - Huge - 40x30

Year2020

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Other - minor imperfections in frame 

Framed without GlassDark Wood Frame 

Purchased fromArtist 2022 

Story / Additional InfoSynesthesia is experiencing more than one sense simultaneously. The artist has this experience at times when listening to music. She used pieces of xeroxed drawings from old biology books, ancient Persian drawings and paintings and vintage illustrations of undersea flora and fauna. She combines them in compositions that have the sense of reality in organization of space but on closer examination, the individual images challenge reality, creating fantasy or dream-like images. There is an illusion of a lush, exotic bouquet but the viewer is asked to dispense with a slavish sense of reality and enjoy the crossover from one world to another. The artist creates a collage first and thenh completes and unites the work with oil paints and sometimes pastels. Her work is influenced by Romare Bearden and other collage artists. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

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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.