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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
Friday, February 16, 2024
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
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.
May Your Vessel Be
May Your Vessel Be
for Status of Women San Antonio - Reflections on the Pursuit of Gender Equality Group Exhibition at Culture Commons Gallery
May Your Vessel Be, 2022
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
The nopal cactus thrives in harsh conditions. Its succulent flesh is protected with needle-like spines. It regenerates easily. These traits make the nopal cactus an ideal refuge for those in need of food, drink, or shelter.
May your Vessel Be is a response to the domestic Violence portion of The 2019 Status of Women in San Antonio report. This artwork invokes the sacred nopal in a protections spell or prayer for women experiencing domestic violence in our city and beyond:
May your vessel be protected.
May your vessel be healed.
May your vessel be replenished.
May your vessel be.
Walking the Healing Path
Walking the Healing Path for Threads Bare Group Exhibition at The Contemporary at Blue Star
Walking the Healing Path, 2022
leather sandals, wire, cardboard, vinyl, obsidian chips, lava beads
12 x 16 x 15 inches
serpent detail
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