MARK FLORES: GONE WEST

Alison Jacques is pleased to present the first UK solo show of new work by Los Angeles based artist Mark Flores. In a series of new installations, consisting of hundreds of small paintings and a collection of new drawings, Mark Flores plays on the expansiveness of abstraction, simultaneously evoking the "end of the continent sadness" of American Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac and the commonplace, diaristic impressions of American poet James Schuyler. Flores suggests a place lost or forgotten, yet somehow hopeful. A sunny California utopia has crumbled to dust, but in the wreckage we can still find a few precious, fleeting moments of calm and beauty.