Selected artworks and paintings of Mark Flores
Mark Flores was Born on 1970 in Ventura,currenly Lives and works in Los Angeles.Flores suggests a place lost or forgotten, yet somehow hopeful. A sunny California utopia has crumbled to dust, but in the wreckage we can still find a few precious, fleeting moments of calm and beauty. In the central gallery, Mark Flores presents an installation of numerous small black paintings, eight by six inches in size, that navigate the wall to create the impression of a landscape or cave. The paintings are arranged in a grid-like formation with consistent spacing between each work. The composition generates a visual effect in which the eye creates a dark spot at the crux of each intersection.
Mark Flores?s work combines abstraction and figuration to examine the malleability of historical authenticity. Often pairing pencil drawings of well known figures or events with painted monochromatic panels, Flores situates his subjects against ambient backdrops that both reference and disorient their original context. In To A New World?(Pt 2), Flores faithfully renders an iconic press image of Elsa Lancaster in her role in the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein ? a movie sequel attaining cult status for its diasporic spin-offs and trivia. Set against a constellation of ?diffusion? paintings, Flores weaves the myth of Hollywood into the fragmented schema of collective conscience, drawing associations to art, social, and technological ideologies from both past and present.
The drawings depict the scratches, scuffs and evidence of wear over time present in the source material. Occupying the facing wall of the gallery is a group of portraits created in shades of grey, of singular subjects sitting or standing in various poses. All source images are taken from the archive of historical photographs at U. C. Berkeley?s Bancroft Library. In the backspace of the gallery, a further modular installation of many small paintings expands out from the far corner of the room.The paintings on the base layer are created in blends of similar colours based on the colours Flores has experienced viewing the Dreamachine. Further layers of paintings draw on photographs the artist has taken and printed of the shadows the apparatus has cast.
Conclusion:
These paintings obscure the base layer, and here and there hints of brilliant colour peek out from underneath. In the opposing corner of the room is placed a drawing of the Redwood Forest seen from the ground looking skyward. All that is visible in the image is a pattern of branches, leaves and light.
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