Palms for Life Fund - Art For Life

Through Art for Life, Palms achieves two goals: to share the talent of local artists and generate funds to support social investment. In this way, we create new opportunities for many disadvantaged populations around the world.

A first Art for Life experience is through the works of Ecuadorian artist Luis Salazar

Luis Salazar was born in Quito, January 31, 1966. At the age of 21, he enrolled in the Art Faculty from the Central University in Quito. While he began pursuing a career in photography, he soon became passionate about painting. He took classes with Maestro Oswaldo Viteri and traveled to Cuba to pursue his studies. He started painting soon after and was immediately recognized as a very unique talent. His most recent exhibits include: the Orbankai International Cafe in Landshut, Germany, the Meguro Art Museum in Tokyo, National Art Gallery in Malaysia, Casa de las Americas in La Havana, Jack Meier Gallery in Houston, Texas, and many other individual and collective exhibits in Ecuador. Luis teaches Art History and lives in Quito. He has produced 38 paintings for Palms for Life Fund.

“We are not an economic power, neither military nor political but we can be a cultural power." Manuel Benjamin Carrion Mora (1897–1979)

“This thought of Benjamin Carrion describes exactly our identity and our cultural wealth and geography. We are the heirs of an ancestral Cosmo vision that remains alive through our traditions and customs. That is why I allow myself to weave in religious and urban symbols in my paintings with suggestive metaphors that appear in many cases extremist and perhaps incomprehensible. To me, this is what artistic expression is all about: the highest expression of hope and the concept of culture as an instrument of freedom allowing the permanent growth and development of the individual.” (Luis Salazar)

Luis Salazar has produced a total of 38 innovative, unique and inspiring paintings for Palms for Life – Art for Life. A new exhibit will take place at chashama 30 West in New York City from February 18 to March 8, 2010. This is the 4th exhibit of Luis Salazar in the United States. All net proceeds from the sale of the art are going directly to Palms for Life to support educational projects in Ecuador.

You can view all 38 paintings by visiting our photo gallery. There you will also see which are the paintings that have been sold and the ones that are still available for purchase.

For more information or if you are interested in buying Luis Salazar’s work, please write to info@palmsforlifefund.org

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