Roland SALAZAR Rose

About the Artist

Statement on my art work

I'd call myself an expressionist, if I'm asked by someone how do I classify my creative endeavors.

I resided in Mexico over three decades bridging the 20th and 21st centuries. I returned to Maine in 2012 for personal reasons where I established as a goal for my paintings in Maine to seek to express Maine'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. A reviewer commented: “These works all seem to have a topological quality but with an expressionist feel. There is an underlying force—sort of a life force—in many of these pieces. The pieces seem alive, on the verge of change, as it seems to be the case for the land and sea. His treatment of Maine “landscapes” with innovative techniques gives Salazar's work a real dynamism.”

My work includes water media, mixed media, acrylic and oil paintings on canvas, paper and wood. I have perfected a Mixed Media Medium Sal-Zar that enables me to produce work that does not have to be protected by glass. This medium has unique properties that make the work light-fast, and non-yellowing. It creates exciting unusual visual effects especially when Sal-Zar is mixed with chapapote; a form of asphalt found in Mexico.








PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Artist President, The Maine Artists’ Space/Danforth Gallery Portland, Maine: Roland Salazar Rose is the Founder (1988) of this alternative visual arts space, voting member of the National Association of Artists’ Organizations. It has held hundreds of shows at its physical gallery the Danforth Gallery since 1988. Then, at the end of 2001 it closed this space and operated as an Online Gallery, finally closing and dissolving operations 2007.