Luís Cabral: index

Paintings by Luís Cabral

May 2007 exhibit
November 2006 exhibit
November 2005 exhibit
Older exhibits

Luís Cabral was born into a family of artists. His great-grandfather, Roque Gameiro, is considered Portugal’s greatest watercolor painter ever. His grandfather, Martins Barata, was one of the country’s most prolific and admired fresco painters of the 20th century. Despite all of the encouragement and instruction from his grandmother and mother -- themselves accomplished artists --, Cabral lapsed into economics and academics and is currently Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Luís Cabral started his way back into art, first watercolor painting, then other media such as acrylic and oil. His style is primarily figurative, ranging from the realistic to the semi-abstract. His subjects are varied, ranging from seascapes to landscapes to cityscapes. A recent series of “vertical” acrylic painting celebrates New York City’s urban architecture.

Cabral’s work has appeared in close to a dozen exhibits, collective and individual, on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent shows include a solo exhibit in October 2005 at Lisbon’s Atelier de Artistas; a collective family exhibit in November 2006 at Lisbon’s Water Museum (featuring more than twenty descendents of Roque Gameiro, spanning five generations of artists); and a joint show with painter Karleen Loughran at New Haven's Wunderlee Arts gallery in May 2007.

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