What the Talking Drum Said to the Parrot 2023 30x24

Year2023

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromArtist 2023 

Story / Additional InfoThe artist's partner is a drummer and owns a pet store. She was inspired by a talking parrot a friend owns and the talking drum to include them both in a painting where it is imagined they talk to each other. The winding road is an element from a series of paintings by the artist. It runs through a landscape much like the central coast hills or even some in Spain visited by the artist. Her Hispanic heritage comes through in the intense colors used, the patterned scarf at the bottom and the cactus and red roofs. The stylized trees and landscape elements are reminiscent of David Hockney. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID163063

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.