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| | Resident of Los Angeles in 1908. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Biography from Eric Firestone Gallery:
| Robert Walters, born 1925, creates art of experience. From 1948 – 1961, he was an abstract expressionist painter working out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The span of these years saw Walters focus solely on the non objective. As abstract as the works were they were stabilized and driven by a structure that ultimately fueled Walters’ devotional quest to better understand the architectural.
By the mid-1960’s, Walter held a Masters Degree in Architecture and shortly thereafter became a Professor of Architecture at University of New Mexico. He applied the principles of abstraction to his architectural design and when he retired from his teaching post he applied all he learned and experienced architecturally to his paintings.
The paintings Walters has made since 1985 are punctuated by broad swathes of color that delineate spatial ambiguities of exterior and interior architectural spaces.
Walters is a seasoned traveler whose experiences in New Mexico, Mexico and Spain provide the exotic and allegorical elements that dominate his life and imagination.
Selected Collections:
Brooklyn Museum
Mexico City College
Museum of Modern Art
The University of California Museum of Art
University of New Mexico Museum of Art
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