About this Artist
Teresa Flores is a multidisciplinary artist who explores connections between her Chicana identity and the notion of the California Dream. Through drawing, painting, video, and social practice Flores explores the ways generations of colonialism and assimilation in California have affected families like her own, who can trace their ancestor’s migration along the Pacific coast for generations. In exploring food and movement, collective art making and nurturing, Flores seeks innovative avenues of expression and pathways to healing.
Teresa Flores is an inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Dolores Huerta Foundation. Her drawings, paintings, videos, and social practice projects have been featured in Alta Journal, The New Yorker and NPR and presented at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Spike Art Quarterly in Berlin and Galería de la Raza in San Francisco. Flores has also exhibited with Dominique Gallery, Espacio 1839, and has been a featured artist in the annual Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction. Her work has also been featured in online exhibitions and auctions on Artsy.net. Flores studied drawing and painting at Fresno State, home of the feminist art movement, before receiving her Public Practice MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, where she earned the recognition of Outstanding Alumni. Flores lives and works in East LA.
The theme is inspired by the LA Phil’s program which includes Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. The program also includes Gabriela Ortiz’s Yanga, which features African instruments that arrived in Latin America hundreds of years ago and continue to shape the sound of Latin American music today.
The 5-7' tier altar will include traditional elements like cempasuchil, pan de muerto, candles (flameless), and photos as well as items specific to the composers like instruments, batons, sheet music, record players, vinyls, CDs, cassettes, and other musical ephemera. Honored composers will include Heitor Villa-Lobos, Silvestre Revueltas, Chiquinha Gonzaga, and others as informed by the LA Philharmonic community.
Flores’s altar will be about 6 feet high and at the staircase landing that overlooks BP Hall. We plan to feature Flores’s work at Grand Avenue Arts: All Access on October 19 and have it up through November 3 as well as work with her for a craft/workshop at Grand Avenue Arts titled Día de Los Muertos Nichos featuring palm-sized frames decorated with florals, flourishes, and craft elements. This workshop will take place from 1:30pm – 3:30pm and be open to attendees for free as part of our offerings. This will also serve as a promotional opportunity for us to promote the Día de Los Muertos with Dudamel concerts and for Flores to engage with the patrons coming out to enjoy a day of music and the arts.