COMMUNITY LOST & FOUND

Christina Flowers’ Community Lost & Found invites viewers to consider how we re-connect and create community as we emerge from separation. Flowers’ hard-edge abstract paintings are a study of the intersection of voice, energy and passion that form the pulse of community.

By inviting participation through written response, this body of work aims to encourage connection and discussion through interaction with the exhibition and viewers within the gallery space. Titles pulled directly from community response and paintings juxtaposed with writings create an immersive experience that allows viewers to question their ideas of community and to form thoughts on what it means to them moving forward.

While the initial sketches for these paintings may have started as clearly defined figurative abstract compositions, through her process, Flowers has pulled the initial sketches apart and pieced them back together to capture the essence of community rather than its likeness. Push and pull, weaving over and through, voices as color competing for attention while building connection.

The paintings exist in two scales.  The large works embody community as a whole. Its power to change, uplift, and embrace.  While the smaller works step within to find the pulse, the focal point. The very nature of the hard-edge painting style invites the viewer to consider each shape as a separate entity that is made greater when combined as a complete composition.  As one contributor wrote:

“The people in my community fit together, not like puzzle pieces, but like the notes of a song.  Contrasting but harmonious. Coming together to form a melody.”

And so too are these paintings a reflection of the melodies within community. The push and pull of collaboration. The harmonious alignment of ideals.