Salazar featured in PINE TREE STATEment Exhibit

BIDDEFORD, Maine - Dec. 6, 2015 - PRLog -- Salazar Part of The PINE TREE STATEment Show at ENGINE


December 1, 2015


(Biddeford ME) Engine Gallery in Biddeford is showing recent paintings by Salazar (Roland Salazar Rose) in the AUTUS Collective juried show “The PINE TREE STATEment, opening on Saturday, December 5 at 5:00 pm and continuing through January 21, 2016.

AUTUS Collective, in conjunction with Engine Gallery, invited Maine visual artists to submit recent works for jury selection that “re-imagines, re-assigns, re-invents and takes ownership of Maine’s iconography.” The PINE TREE STATEment call for work asked artists: “How do you represent all that Maine has to offer: the ocean, forests, lighthouses, animal life, and culinary treats? How can we paint lighthouses and seascapes in a new, more progressive way? How do you represent Maine’s iconographic imagery?” Approximately 20 Maine artists are represented in the show.

Salazar returned to Maine from an extended painting residency in Mexico in 2012. In representing his art in Maine, he says, “My paintings in Maine seek to express the state’s true essence. For I paint ‘Maine’ as unforgiving. The land, sea and sky as uncompromising, demanding your daily awareness, and testing your ability to live with nature as a constant in your life.”

An art reviewer wrote: “His Maine series has a topological quality but with an expressionist feel. Furthermore, there is an underlying force—sort of a life force—in many of these pieces. The paintings seem alive, on the verge of change, as it seems to be the case for the land, sea and sky of Maine. Salazar’s treatment of Maine “landscapes” with innovative techniques gives his work a real dynamism.”

No people, buildings. lighthouses—only the land, sea and sky.

Viewers of Salazar’s might ask themselves “What can I do to help guarantee this fragile environment is maintained and not destroyed by our very human presence?”

To see his recent paintings in the Maine series: “Sky, Land, and Sea: Maine 2014”, visitors are welcome to his loft studio at 265 Main Street in Biddeford. Please call 207-869-0999 for more information or to make an appointment. Salazar’s art is also available for purchase at Full Circle located at 140 Main Street in Biddeford (Salazar is also the featured artist at Full Circle in December). Also in December, his film “The Four Seasons of the Master Myth” will air on MPBN (http://www.mpbn.net/Television/LocalTelevisionPrograms/MP...) on Saturday December 26 at 11:30 am.

ENGINE
ENGINE is a non-profit arts organization located in the heart of Biddeford, Maine. ENGINE’s mission is to make arts-driven programming, cultural development, and sustainable creative entrepreneurialism an explicit community value and civic priority in Biddeford. ENGINE is the home to the Maine Fablab makerspace and also runs a contemporary gallery space at 265 Main street. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 1:00 to 6:00 pm and Saturday, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. More at www.feedtheengine.org.