About
Brendan Flores is a Houston-based sculpture artist creating free-standing and wall hanging 3D works. An engineer by professional background, his work is infused with a desire for detail, precision, and constraint. In his practice, Brendan is typically focused on the process of creating representations of his experiences using cubes and other geometric shapes formatted into gridded layouts. He is inspired by everyday life, nature, and his family.
Brendan has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA at Houston Christian University (formerly HBU).
Artist Statement
I appreciate straight lines, symmetry, and precision. However, I find my inspiration in the things I see and the situations I experience, where such qualities are generally sparse. Life, nature, and experiences are all messy concepts. My work is the way I assuage my inner desire to smooth the messy into the precise. Each individual component of my sculptures stores my thoughts, emotions, ideas, and once that piece is placed into a work, that is where those feelings live. These emotions are not locked away in some part of me, rather, they are placed in the open to be considered by myself and my audience. Through this open dialogue, I am creating my own abstract language to represent subjective organic themes through rigid and exacting forms.