Hard Earned Rest 2022 29x25 -, California - Tribute to Frida
Dixie Salazar
Original Painting : Oil on Canvas
Size : 28x24 in | 71x61 cm
Framed : 28.5x24.5 in | 72x62 cm
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Year2022
Hand SignedLower Right
Condition Excellent
Framed without GlassWood Frame
Purchased fromArtist 2020
Story / Additional InfoThis painting was accepted in a juried Arts and Agricuture show in Fresno, California in 2023. The woman is sleeping after a hard days work in the fields. The painting celebrates the many contributions of the farm workers in the Central Valley. The woman is asleep on a Spanish shawl, which references the artist's Hispanic roots. The alibrije ( painted Mexican wooden creatures) stands guard with a rake. A bowl of tomatoes in the foreground represents the bounty of crops from this area. The Mayan figure on the left side of the painting relates to the Mexican heritage of most of the farmworkers in this area. The bountiful fields are seen in the window behind the sleeping woman. The artist was influenced by Frida Kahlo and many other Mexican artists.
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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.