Gathering coals from the night’s fire, a young Navajo boy would be inspired. With charcoal in hand, he draws endless landscapes of imaginative battle scenes & pictures of his favorite animals of the high deserts.
Jerry Salazar, with no formal art training, would begin his long lasting art obsession - later career, from his small rural home of White Mesa. A locally proclaimed community on the Navajo Reservation of north western New Mexico is often depicted in his original works of landscapes & winter scenes.
The abstract realism & symbolic nature of his art work is an interpretation of his up bringing, his love of the outdoors, his love for his people, his won-battle with alcoholism, and his daily walk with the Creator.
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Attending yearly fine art shows & occasional pop-up galleries across the south west, Salazar has created a lasting reputation.
Along with his son, Jeremy Salazar of Three Feather Studios, the duo show case their original works & often gather crowds with a live painting.
Their approach to the canvas differ from each other but both have been wildly held as an important self representation of modern contemporary Native American fine art.