Embracing the Power of Color with Carlos Sá Pires

Bohío Creative welcomes a new chapter of expression with Abraço de Cor (Color's Embrace), a solo exhibition by Portuguese artist Carlos Sá Pires. Opening October 11 and running through November 8, the exhibition invites visitors to experience color not merely as an element of art, but as a force—alive, emotional, and intrinsic.

Carlos Sá Pires’ relationship with art began in the quiet of a small provincial town. Born in 1955 in Torres Novas, he first turned to drawing as a child, a way to fill long hours and make sense of his surroundings. At seventeen, after the loss of his mother, painting became something more than pastime. It became an outlet for grief and a way to translate emotions that words could not hold. Early exhibitions brought some recognition, but life and the sweeping changes of the Portuguese revolution, pulled him away from the art world.

When Carlos returned to painting, it was with a new instinct and urgency. Everyday he paints, with color in the lead—pouring, layering, and moving paint until forms begin to surface. His canvases shift between abstraction and figuration, where distorted figures, bold contrasts, and textured layers create a sense of fantasy. Each painting feels like a conversation and invitation into an imaginative world where figures take on new life.

Color, for Carlos, is powerful and inspiring. It is the raw language of creation itself. In Abraço de Cor, color takes the lead, embracing all of us with its vibrancy and depth while hinting at the universal themes of love, resilience, and the quiet drive to keep creating.

For Bohío Creative, presenting Carlos’s work is both a celebration and a continuation of the gallery’s mission: to create a space where art speaks across experiences, where memory and instinct find form, and where creativity is felt as much as it is seen.

Abraço de Cor opens on Saturday, October 11, with a reception from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. We invite you to step inside Carlos Sá Pires’ world of color.