The Hammer Museum presents a Lunchtime Art Talk with Mark Flores on December 1st 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM.

Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer’s curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussion about works of art currently on view or from museum collections. This talk will be led by Emily Gonzalez, curatorial assistant.

“Los Angeles-based painter, Mark Flores translates the optically-driven mechanics of the photographic process into color-saturated handmade paintings. His ambitious Hammer Project will consist of ninety-nine individual paintings layered and juxtaposed across the lobby wall. Painted alternately with an expressive, brushy technique and a labor-intensive benday-like technique in which the CMYK colors of the printing process are layered upon one another in small dots, the paintings are based on photographs taken by Flores during hours-long journeys in which he walked the full length of Sunset Boulevard, both during the day and at night.”

Image: Mark Flores, See This Through , 2009-2010 © Courtesy of the Artist and Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
www.hammer.ucla.edu

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