Two Red Palms 2023 40x40 - Huge

Year2023

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing 

Purchased fromArtist 2023 

Story / Additional InfoThe work is from a series the artist is working on called the Childhood Tree Series. The tree represents the birth of her creativity. As a child, she played under a large elm tree across the road at the bottom of a hill where she would play with sticks and stones and whatever she could find and create her own world. This is a vivid memory for her and she keeps exploring the tree and what it meant to her creative development and the fantasy world she escaped into. This painting shows a girl under a tree holding a series of hoops. The masks represent the search for identity as well as the girl holding what could be either a picture frame or a mirror backwards. The figure on the stairs is an Alice-like figure falling down the rabbit hole. The cactus represents her Hispanic background. A wave arches over the left side which is coming from the west where the artist ended up in her journey across the U.S. where the red palm is located. The red palm in the middle is the artist’s own hand. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

Additional InformationFrom the Childhood Tree Series 

LID165983

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.