Dixie Salazar
Atavistic Passage 2008 45x45 - Huge
Original Painting : Oil on Linen
Size : 45x45 in | 114x114 cm
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Year2008
Hand SignedLower Right and on Verso
Condition Excellent
Not FramedGallery Wrapped Does Not Need Framing
Purchased fromArtist 2008
Story / Additional InfoThe title refers to a connection to the ancestors. The artist has a dual heritage, Hispanic on her father’s side and Anglo on her mother’s side. The child in the center has half of her face blank which relates to her confused identity. She holds a boat to represent ancestry that arrived by boat. The shapes at the bottom represent ancestors and the trees morph into their collective shapes, reaching toward the girl. The trees in the background are somewhat menacing and but the girl is separated from them by the dark figure with arms outstretched protectively. The forms on either side of the girl, represent primitive, indigenous figures engaged in a rite or ceremony of passage. Other viewers may read other interpretations into this art piece, which the artist would welcome as valid, since it may arouse different responses.
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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.