Gay Arts Dealer Hopes to Bring Art, LGBT Community to Downtown SD!

Amazingly enough, San Diego arts dealer Alexander Salazar has managed to thrive in spite of the recession, the high cost of his carefully selected collections and the economic depression surrounding his downtown gallery space.


The openly gay art dealer and owner of Alexander Salazar Fine Art, a gallery space on 7th and Broadway that will celebrate its one-year anniversary this Saturday, wants to create an LGBT-friendly arts community in the neighborhood that he admits is “still sort of sketchy.”

There are “a lot of artists in San Diego, and a lot of galleries aren’t tapping into that market,” explained Salazar in an interview with San Diego Gay & Lesbian News. He intends to change that – first with the artist-in-residence space where he sponsors up and coming young artists, next with a campaign to bring other galleries to the neighborhood…and finally, with an increased presence in the San Diego LGBT community.