Full Artist Bio
Raised around Houston and New Orleans — urban centers saturated with color, action and joy — Flores integrates sense impressions from his early years with vivid images that infuse his experience today. His immense and eclectic body of work spans meticulous illustration, evocative abstracts, glamorous equine and musician portraiture and alluring landscapes. Whether he is capturing triumph at the racetrack, plumbing the soul of a jazz scene or evoking a sultry blue dusk, Flores’s electric ribbons of color demand and deserve attention.
Flores first realized that he would be an artist when he was 15, attending an exhibit in Houston. He began his personal journey with exquisitely detailed drawings of safari animals, a radically different approach to representation than his images today, which are largely conceptual. He went on to attend both the University of Houston and the Art Institute of Houston, Versatile and ambitious, Flores first exercised his talents in corporate advertising and marketing, where he worked in graphic design for 12 years on accounts including Pepsi, Frito-Lay and G.E., meanwhile developing his niche as a fine artist. As he matured as an artist, he was influenced by the imaginations of Salvador Dali, Peter Paul Rubens, Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso, who “made the impossible, visible.” He appreciates art in many styles, and owns originals by about 40 other artists.
