Michael
Flohr's
paintings are a patchwork of avant-garde, impressionistic
color exhibiting a stylistic fortitude that succeeds in
redefining impressionism and abstract expressionism.
Depicting ordinary moments in extraordinary ways, Flohr's
work displays an artistic mastery of color, perspective,
technique and vision. "I have a huge passion to record
humanity on canvas, the good and the bad, it is all
beautiful to me."
Michael Flohr, one of Southern California’s hottest young
‘urban’ artists, has started to carve a niche for himself as
an ‘urban painter.’
His work, actually the artist himself, is more than that:
Flohr not only captures scenes of city life with his work,
the work succeeds in imparting to the viewer the ‘feel’ and
the ‘rhythm’ of the city.
Cities—especially vibrant ones such as Flohr’s most oft-used
choice, San Francisco—have a current. A pace. A ‘groove’.
And as much as we like to associate “I Left My Heart In San
Francisco,” with that city, when we go there at night, we
just don’t hear Tony Bennett in our minds. We hear something
a little more frenetic. A little more ‘allegretto.’ We hear
Coltraine. We hear Dizzy. We hear Jazz. Flohr’s work, in my
mind, is the visual equivalent of Jazz music. Jazz takes an
eight or sixteen bar phrase, establishes it as a theme, then
strays into an improvisational interpretation of that theme
by seeing how far out it can get while still staying in the
chords—which, by the way, is the origin of the 60’s hippy
phrase, ‘far out’. Flohr’s work does that, too. |
