Eruptive Profusions - Wax on Canvas 39'' x 39''

The power of Flora's paintings lies in the vitality of their lyrical abstraction coupled with the vulnerability of their self-expression. These works contain entire worlds, as well as deeply emotional landscapes, and they are remarkable for their resistance to easy categorization. Like all engaging abstract works, they possess within their composition the energy of their moment of creation. Although these paintings are dynamic with creativity, the intense and dramatic eddies of color that fill the canvases are not chaotic eruptions, but examples of breathtakingly intricate designs.

As a result of Flora's intense artistic integrity, her paintings act as psychological and aesthetic mirrors for both the artist and the viewer. Their sophisticated composition allows us to plunge their depths as well as our own emotional reactions and personal associations. To truly appreciate these images, one has to be open to them, like a poem, as they gradually work their subtle influence. The hypnotic forms suggest the ocean as well as the patterns found in minerals or in creatures on the cellular level. Flora's inspiration and the viewer's response may intimately reflect each other, since she uses the canvas as a means of conveying her love of visual beauty and her commitment to creative honesty.

The Land of the One Thousand Islands - Oil on Linen 60'' x 23''

Simplicity of form and exuberant use of color combine in harmony to produce the uplifting and spirited paintings by Colombian-born artist Cristina Rodriguez.  Well traveled throughout the Americas, Africa and Europe, Rodriguez’s paintings exhibit a well-developed aesthetic and sophisticated understanding of multicultural artistic traditions.  Her works, rendered in beautiful tones of oil paint on linen, blend the compositional balance of geometric abstraction with the playful human spirit of primitive artwork.  Simplified figures, reduced to their most essential elements, relate with a dynamic rhythmic movement to their solid or multi-colored backgrounds.  Shapes are boldly outlined and imaginatively rendered, often curving upward with graceful, dance-like movements.  Rich with narrative content, her paintings are continuously engaging and universally appealing and reverberate with an irrepressible, joyous energy, reflecting an intense enthusiasm for not only art-making, but for life.