Hashimoto Contemporary Los Angeles is pleased to announce Remedios, a solo presentation of Chicago-based artist Liz Flores’s introspective paintings and works on paper. Referring to a “cure” or “remedy,” the new works in this show demonstrate the artist’s recent contemplation of relief and respite during these hot summer months.

Flores amplifies a personal experience to the macro level, finding how seemingly individual experiences create webs through which people connect. Reminiscent of the Cubist interest in moving bodies but with a feminist twist, her new works emphasize the dynamism of the human body and how we relate through movement. Her female figures reach, hold, bend, stretch, curve—anything but stay still—refuting art history’s classification of the female form as singular and idle. Flores unites one hand with a face, a thigh, a breast, coercing the boundaries of skin to melt away. Together, Flores’s paintings and drawings visualize the private spaces where one transforms into many, where remedy encounters reverie.

Liz Flores is deeply influenced by the everyday human experience, storytelling, and the female body. Working primarily with acrylic paint on canvas, her work is a representation of the human condition through lines, shapes, and abstract figures. It’s a reaction to life, an emotion, or a memory and is driven by her interests in community, womanhood, and Latinidad. While the women in her paintings are influenced by her experiences, they remain ambiguous in face and form, giving the viewer the opportunity to see themselves. Painting has always been her way of understanding her self; and for viewers, she hopes that my work can spark self-reflection in their own life.