Morgan Cristine Flores

b. 1981/Los Angeles

Lives/Works in Boston

 

My art practice is a multidisciplinary approach to exploring the relationship between myself and my surroundings.  As a mixed-race Mexican-American woman, how do I process my existence on both the scale of the geographical landscape, historical space, and also the landscape of the everyday?  With my art practice, I seek to identify and honor the many pieces of myself, all the while using the platform of art-making as an avenue in finding incorporation, discovery, expression and belonging.
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My methods involve observation of the landscapes and everyday life around me; research into the intersections of history and ecology of the land on which I reside; collecting of objects, imagery and thoughts based on my observations and research; and feeling the range of emotions that arise throughout this process. I bring my collections into the studio, sorting, organizing and categorizing. Then, in an interplay of planned or spontaneous gestures and movements, I construct paintings,  sculptures and photographs that reflect my synthesis of the collaged elements of the conceptual and the visual, guided and informed by the expressions of my feelings.

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