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To arrive at their subjects, Flor Flores begins by collecting images and gestures that they encounter through walks, surfing the web, or that come to them as gifts. Their paintings are produced through a process of transferring drawings from paper and fabric to the surface. The mimetic nature of their process aspires to unveil the inner workings of language and how it delineates meaning, authority, and agency. Their process continually develops more layers of simulations and transmissions, with each layer aspiring to give their subjects a platform to develop their own creative agency, a space for gathering, and abstraction.
Michael Milano employs materials that are part of our everyday experience, producing fabric-based paintings that are indebted to textile traditions and the history of abstraction. Thinking through the physical properties of textiles, as well as their cultural associations, he combines processes such as dyeing, pressing, and distressing to create abstract compositions that champion a deeper engagement with our material environment. Whether it involves the piecing of a quilt, or the seam, fold, or drape of a shirt, the ubiquitous and seemingly mundane quality of cloth continues to motivate him in the studio.
