Arts and Culture Texas Magazine Artist Profile

Texas Studio: Audrya Flores Needs Some Space

by Casey Gregory for Arts and Culture Texas Magazine

August 17, 2024 + 15th Anniversary Issue

READ HERE: https://artsandculturetx.com/texas-studio-audrya-flores-needs-some-space/

San Antonio Report Artist Profile

Nature is a guide and collaborator for artist Audrya Flores

by Nicholas Frank for San Antonio Report 

May 11, 2024

READ HERE: https://sanantonioreport.org/meet-artist-audrya-flores-plant-sculptures/ 

Devouring Mother

 Devouring Mother, 2024

ink, recycled paper, salvaged wooden frame, huisache thorns, roofing nails

43 x 36 inches

I used natural and salvaged materials to create this depiction of Earth as an anthropomorphic being. She is both the womb and the tomb. She is the Sacred Mother, birthing and devouring all. This work summons us, her children, to stand in aw of her, honor her, and tend to her.

This drawing is on view through January 17, 2025 at Culture Commons Gallery SATX as a part of the Resilient and Responsive: Artists and the Environment group exhibition.

Mourning Dove: An Altar for Our Beloved Dead

Mourning Dove: An Altar for Our Beloved Dead, 2024

a specially commissioned ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos

Ruby City, San Antonio, TX

"Pluck an oat from the stem. Take the symbolic teardrop and place it in the bowl on the altar in honor of your beloved muerto."

photos by Chad Miller and myself

 

Play and Decay at the Confluence

Play and Decay at the Confluence, 2024

Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX 

locally-sourced flora

commissioned by the San Antonio River Foundation

photos by Ashley Mireles and myself

cyclic Solo Exhibition

 cyclic Solo Exhibition 

at Palo Alto College Project Space Gallery

on view through March 8, 2024

cyclic brings together painting, collage, textile, and sculptural works created in the last

decade to examine the connection between materials, processes, and themes over

time.

The reuse of materials such as up-cycled paper and vintage bedsheets eludes to

personal histories, passage of time, and rebirth. My work is process-focused and utilizes

repetition and pattern as ritual. This allows for self-soothing while navigating heavy

subject matter. My self portraits document my progress as I move through specific

healing phases. Not only does this record acknowledge the labor of healing work, it

bears witness to my own transformation and enables me to share it with others.

The image of the serpent appears often in my work and symbolizes the healing path.

Healing, like the serpent, is cyclic. It is perpetually growing, shedding, and curving back

around to face reactivated trauma with fresh new skin. Healing is frightening, but

beautiful. And sometimes, if you are patient and brave, healing will swallow you whole.

Rattling Solo Exhibition

Rattling Solo Exhibition at Sala Diaz

on view through February 23, 2024

 

photos by Clint Datchuk

Rattling examines the roles of ritual, creativity, and play in the healing process. Like the

segments of a serpent’s rattle, this body of work serves as a record of growth and

evidence of transformation. It makes the inner work of healing visible. This project was

made possible with the support of the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts &

Culture.

A Rattling Invitation-

Beyond the threshold of this tiny house,

this witch’s cottage,

another world awaits.

Come in.

My spells hang in the air,

my shape shifts,

I move from material to immaterial, and back again.

Come in.

I travel on the serpent’s back, the healing path.

She showed me how to rattle.

Let me show you.

Come in.