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BIO - Julio Stanly Flores was born in Antigua, Guatemala January 1977, raised in Southern California since 1986 and currently a resident of Pennsylvania. Received a Masters Degree in Fine Art from New York Academy of Art in 2009 and in 2004 a Bachelor's Degree from Laguna College of art and Design. STATEMENT - Julio interprets himself in figures that are naked rather than "nude," false and vulnerable representing our continuously changing fads and ideas of beauty. He is inspired by strange beauty, the uncommon appeal of a dead rose or dilapidated appearance of rusty metal, the contorted distortion that is found in rigor mortis and the flowing branches of a vivacious tree. Julio paints the slow decay and birth of human civilization- the silent cry for help in a multicultural post apocalyptic world. The destruction of what was once a pristine brush stroke gives rise to the ruins and the distorted over dramatization of a body suspended in motion. The duality of male and female, life and death, beauty and his distorted interpretation of what that means, fuel the underlying theme of the work. |
CONTACT INFO CELL PHONE: 951.201.7482 JULIO@JSFLORESART.COM Studio in Morrisville, PA LYNKS New York Academy of Art Erica Lemberg |