The Horses of Walter Salas-Humara

May 22 - May 23 1916 Gallery

Meet the Artist 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm on May 22

“I do not literally paint the horse, but the emotion it produces upon me. I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I think about life.” 

A Cuban-American, Walter Salas-Humara moved to New York in 1982 to pursue a career in the visual arts.  Following a year of graduate work at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Salas-Humara found steady work with the Leo Castelli Gallery during the ‘80s Manhattan art boom. Citing as his heroes ‘50s minimalist painter Ellsworth Kelly and Pop artist Jasper Johns, Salas-Humara’s early paintings were primarily large abstract color fields.

In 2018 Walter began painting complex symbolic images of Horses which have been shown in galleries and art centers throughout the USA.