NYAB Event - Oscar de Las Flores “Chaordica”

Oscar de Las Flores “Chaordica”

Mulherin + Pollard

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Mulherin + Pollard presents Chaordica, an exhibition of drawings by Oscar de Las Flores. Made over the past two years, de Las Flores’ latest body of work presents order and chaos in constant contradiction and communion. Chaordica is an exploration of humanity by way of narrative figuration simply and directly provided by the practice of drawing on paper.

Dealing with diverse themes, some purely gestural, others metaphorical, others still anarchic and burlesque….the works become a visual assortment of human emblems, passionate confrontations and hopeful efforts to be alive…a sort of visual canto that exposes our virtue and our shame, an appraisal of our indifferences and punishments, our disloyalties and our cynicism. de Las Flores’ world is reprimanded by its own mental chimera…mankind fights between its enthusiasm for infamy and perversion and its desire for justice and liberty. It is an intimate visual compendium of humanity entangled in a contest with itself, harmonizing with or victimizing each other.

Oscar De Las Flores is a Canadian artist born in Santa Ana, El Salvador. de Las Flores’ family moved to Guadalajara, Mexico seeking refuge during the start of the civil war in his homeland. It is here that de Las Flores fell deeply under the influence of Jose Clemente Orozco’s narrative social murals, and Mexico’s cultural history. A mostly self-taught artist de Las Flores has developed his style from years of disciplined drawing, life drawing, and lectures.

He graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design University with Honors in printmaking.
The artist has been particularly active in the printmaking field, participating in multiple international events. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Pollock Krasner Award and various awards from Canada Council for the Arts. Oscar de Las Flores has been active in forming and founding artistic associations in Toronto with the Latino community as well as founding arts spaces in Oaxaca that are currently active ( La Curtiduria, and Taller Grafica Actual or TAGA ), important spaces for local and international artists.

de Las Flores has also attended various prestigious residencies including Skowhegan, Yaddo, and The MacDowell Colony. He has exhibited work in group exhibitions in over thirty countries, with solo exhibitions in Canada and the United States.