“Both styles are 100% derived from New York, and I think the idea that abstract expressionism as a New York style-marked by artists like William de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichteinstein-is something younger artists don’t always understand,” explains Flore.
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The East Village-based artist, who grew up in Brooklyn’s Marine Park neighborhood, feels deeply connected to the genre-bending artists and movements that have defined his city. The other similarity between these two divergent branches of art is their New York City origins. It’s a force that’s invisible but beautiful to perceive.” “Everything in the world right now is divided or labeled, but what these two different styles of paintings have in common is their energy-just as we do, as humans. “I’d work on one and then jump to the other, so there’s no bias between them they evolved individually together,” says Flore. Four of the works are diptychs defined by palette-there’s a red, blue, green and white pair-and all are sized for impact, measuring from 72” x 72” up to 72”x 144.” To create them, he set up dual canvases facing off in his studio.
#A tree grows in brooklyn series
In his newest series of paintings, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Flore challenged himself to find those commonalities in the purest, most free-flowing way possible: By painting two different series simultaneously. Flore’s latest show, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, showcases his evolution as a painter of the wildly different styles with 10 works that boldly-and unusually-mix what he’s dubbed ‘Urbans’ and ‘Moderns.’ And these aren’t just disparate works tossed together, they’re deliberately paired and juxtaposed to demonstrate the strong thread of similarity that runs through them in unexpected ways. The contemporary artist whose graphic, text-heavy, graffiti-inspired ‘Urban Cubist’ paintings have earned him Keith Haring comparisons isn’t just interested in one genre and is equally fascinated with the Abstract Expressionism movement of the mid-century. Known in the art world for his edgy Urban Cubist series and his most recent body of work-a Moderns series inspired by the principles of Midcentury Modern design-will exhibit a solo show combining the ethos, technique and style of both works at Art Angels LA, opening March 25, 2021. And in a turbulent year marked by self-reflection, the renowned New York City-based fine artist Christopher Florentino-better known by his nom de plume of Flore, -visualizes his own artistic evolution akin to that of a tree. His work is branching in different directions, but it is rooted from the same source. In conjunction with this exhibition we are dropping FLORE's NFT collection "An elephant in the room" with Nifty GatewayĬhange is imminent, constant and ongoing.