Walter Horak
" Working within a tradition that is several millennia old, I face the inevitable challenge of making the human form somehow relevant or original. Toward that end, I find compelling a notion advanced by art critic Donald Kuspit, who proposed that sculpture was “metaphor making in three dimensions”. My intention is to extend the figurative tradition through metaphor: to compare human form to other aspects of experience and in so doing to express metaphysical ideas of balance, tension, and energy. Sources of inspiration can be wildly diverse, from calligraphy to modern dance, from plant forms to geology, from the efforts of other artists, ancient to contemporary." - Walter Horak, 2014.
Dedee Shattuck Gallery Exhibits:
Dedee Shattuck Gallery | June 28 - July 30, 2017 | Anniversary Exhibit
Dedee Shattuck Gallery | July 2 - July 27, 2014 | The Contemporary Figure
Dedee Shattuck Gallery | November 16 - December 22, 2013 | Small Works, 2013
Dedee Shattuck Gallery | September 3 - September 25, 2011 | Walter Horak
Dedee Shattuck Gallery | June 5 - July 3, 2011 | Inaugural Exhibit
additional works available, to inquire about works, please email dedeeshattuckgallery@gmail.com or call 508-636-4177.
Résumé
Education
B.A. Fine Arts, Harvard University
M.A.T. Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A University of MAssachusetts Dartmouth
Affiliations
Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI
Bill Hester Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
William Merrill Gallery, Laguna, CA
Selected Exhibitions
Bill Hester Fine Art, Chapel Hill, NC 2007, 2009, 2010
Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, 2008
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, Annual Juried Show, First Prize in 3D 2008, Honorable Mention 2005
William Merrill Gallery, Laguna, CA 2007
Water Street Gallery, Douglass, MI, 2007
Sculpture of Rhode Island, Newport, RI 2005
Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA 1986 and 1997
Umass Dartmouth Centennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, 1995
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, New England Juried Shows,
Best In Show 1984, 1993, First Prizes in Sculpture 1988, 1990
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 1982, and First Prizes in Sculpture, New England Juried Shows, 1982, 1984, 1986
Verbena Gallery, New York, NY, 1983, 1984
Public Commissions and Collections
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover NH 2014
Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN 2007
College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, 2002
Temple Sha’Aray Shalom, Hingham, MA 1996
South Shore Natural Science Center, Norwell, MA, 1990
Pepsi Cola West, Irvine, CA, 1989
Village Improvement Society of Dennis, MA 1986 - Present
Isaacson, Miller, Gilvar, and Boulware, Boston, MA, 1987
National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA, 1984
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