b. Boston, MA 1947
Lives and Works in Little Compton, RI

Walter Horak received a BA in Art History, Harvard University, Master of Arts in Teaching, Rhode Island School of Design and Master of Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Statement

Working within a tradition that is several millennia old, I am moved by 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 temporality. Sources of inspiration can be wildly diverse: calligraphy, modern dance, plant and landforms, and the work of other artists, ancient to contemporary.

- Walter Horak