Discover the Story Behind My Drawings
More Than Lines on Paper: Get to Know My Creative Process and Inspiration.
About me
CLAUDIA SALAZAR began painting at a very early age. By age six, she received her first award. She has never received any formal training as an autodidactic artist. Her work is held in private collections worldwide and at the Red Cross in Nicaragua. Claudia has received multiple awards and has participated in exhibitions across the world, in the United States, Nicaragua, Korea (Seoul), France (Paris), and San Jose (Costa Rica).
“Chagua” is a Nicaraguan artist whose style can be defined as naïf.
Although having a background in design, her artistic practice has been developed intuitively, yet it has also been informed by her knowledge of composition and color theory. Her work usually focuses on topics like portraiture and nature, but recently she has created pieces where she pays homage to great and influencing personalities of the art world.
Currently, on display, we have two homages, one to Andy Warhol and the other to Jean Michel Basquiat. She usually depicts her subjects looking up, through an inverted head. They wink at the viewer, always showing a positive personality that goes in hand with each depicted character and their personality. Also, these works have been paired due to the collaborative nature of Warhol’s and Basquiat’s relationship during the 80s.
Claudia Salazar, Chagua, returned to her brushes.
She took them up again with passion after years of silence. Today her colors thrill us again and her figures once more immerse us in the magic of her world. From her canvases emerge faces that we (re) discover, looking at us from below and leading us to look beyond the simple representation of the human figure. The faces are mixed with intense colors, sharing the canvas with figures and representations that allow us to enter the intimacy of her characters through the window of one of her eyes, which remains open as the access door to her soul.
The human figure redesigned by Chagua’s brushes acquires new dimensions, leading us to explore our own vision of reality and to rediscover the soul of the people portrayed.