January 17, 2011

MICHAEL FLOHR

"All I do is paint every day. It is an obsession, I can't stop."

Streets of Gold
36 x 48
Hand-embellished fine art limited edition
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"I enjoy painting restaurants, cityscapes, and high-contrast night scenes because these are places that show where people let down their guards and enjoy their time. These subjects tell stories of people, places, mood and life. Those are the things that I observe, and they strike me."

Crystal Cafe
22 x 30
Hand-embellished fine art limited edition
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"I am the guy in a cafe," he says, "noticing a beautiful, warm, orange-violet light chipping on people's faces across the room, and immediately thinking of ways to combine color and capture that moment in my next painting."

Red Dress
24 x 24
Hand-embellished fine art limited edition
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"There is a flow that I try to keep in my painting that evolves into a story of colors and movement that breathe together. A coronation of small, square strokes of premeditated color creates a rhythm throughout a piece. Then I combine them with broad brush strokes that serve to ‘marry’ the elements together"

Timeless Moment
36 x 48
Hand-embellished fine art limited edition
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"I want to show that a painting doesn't have to be challenging. It can just be something that pleases your eye. It doesn't have to have a meaning. You don't have to dissect it. Enjoy its beauty and what it brings to you."

Friday Night
24 x 40
Hand-embellished fine art limited edition
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In 1999 during his final year at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, Michael was accepted into New York's Society of Illustrators, following the likes of Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, and N.C. Wyeth. The following year, the Society awarded him the prestigious Herman Lambert scholarship and the Academy honored him with Best of Show at the spring exhibition for his painting "Irish Coffee." That piece along with two others was later selected for exhibition at San Francisco's de Young Museum. Today, he is living and working in his home city of San Diego and is published by our very own Crown Thorn Publishing company.

View more of Michael Flohr's work here.

Contact me with inquiries.
anniec@ecgallery.com