Hector Flores

Hector Flores has always used art to express his observations of the human condition. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he learned how to draw from his father and began as a cartoonist, drawing caricatures which, although sometimes unflattering, never shied away from the truth. His paintings retain this honesty along with an undeniable sense of compassion. Hector's subjects are the common man in common situations represented expressionistically with uncommon beauty. "I am interested in seeing what we do and how we do it," he says. And with this simple impetus, he paints us in such a way that we are stopped in our tracks and made to look at ourselves, as if for the first time.