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Painter/muralist Liz Flores leaves her mark on Chicago
In many ways, the basement of muralist Liz Flores’ childhood home in the Chicago suburbs was devoted to the Chicago White Sox, Marvel and DC Comics and Star Trek.
There will surely be a Cubs addition soon, though.Like a great majority of Mexican Americans living on the south side of Chicago or the suburbs south of the Windy City, Flores’ father Jaime Flores is a diehard White Sox fan. He has the mementoes to prove it.
Liz Flores inherited her father’s White Sox fandom, but she knows enough about the iconic Chicago Cubs brand to have been receptive when the Cubs commissioned her to design the organization’s Hispanic Heritage Night jersey.
“I’m excited,” she said. “It’s been really fun to work on it. It’s been it seems like such a long process.”Liz Flores’ murals can be found in Chicago. Her paintings are also in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Italy. Although she’s clearly versatile, a great percentage of Flores’ work are figurative portraits.
Most of those portraits feature women.According to the 2020 census, Latinos account for almost 29.7 percent of the Chicago population. Whites represent 31.4 percent of Chicago’s population, and African Americans account for 28.7.
Flores is the daughter of a Mexican American father and a Cuban mother. Her mother Lizet arrived in the United States from Cuba at 12 years old. Flores’ Latina pride oozes in her work. She counts the iconic Frida Kahlo, the late Mexican muralist, among her inspirations. She’s also a fan of Mexican artists Hilda Palafox and Ana Leovy.
“I’m very much inspired by like Latinad,” she says. “Being a Latina, just being a woman and womanhood and doing a lot of just storytelling through my paintings.
“And so, you know, I always hope that people can see themselves in the paintings or feel some sort of connection to the story I’m trying to tell through the painting or what I’m trying to say through the painting. And yeah, I would say that’s kind of who I am in a nutshell.”
There will surely be a Cubs addition soon, though.Like a great majority of Mexican Americans living on the south side of Chicago or the suburbs south of the Windy City, Flores’ father Jaime Flores is a diehard White Sox fan. He has the mementoes to prove it.
Liz Flores inherited her father’s White Sox fandom, but she knows enough about the iconic Chicago Cubs brand to have been receptive when the Cubs commissioned her to design the organization’s Hispanic Heritage Night jersey.
“I’m excited,” she said. “It’s been really fun to work on it. It’s been it seems like such a long process.”Liz Flores’ murals can be found in Chicago. Her paintings are also in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Italy. Although she’s clearly versatile, a great percentage of Flores’ work are figurative portraits.
Most of those portraits feature women.According to the 2020 census, Latinos account for almost 29.7 percent of the Chicago population. Whites represent 31.4 percent of Chicago’s population, and African Americans account for 28.7.
Flores is the daughter of a Mexican American father and a Cuban mother. Her mother Lizet arrived in the United States from Cuba at 12 years old. Flores’ Latina pride oozes in her work. She counts the iconic Frida Kahlo, the late Mexican muralist, among her inspirations. She’s also a fan of Mexican artists Hilda Palafox and Ana Leovy.
“I’m very much inspired by like Latinad,” she says. “Being a Latina, just being a woman and womanhood and doing a lot of just storytelling through my paintings.
“And so, you know, I always hope that people can see themselves in the paintings or feel some sort of connection to the story I’m trying to tell through the painting or what I’m trying to say through the painting. And yeah, I would say that’s kind of who I am in a nutshell.”
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In many ways, the basement of muralist Liz Flores’ childhood home in the Chicago suburbs was devoted to the Chicago White Sox, Marvel and DC Comics and Star Trek.
There will surely be a Cubs addition soon, though.Like a great majority of Mexican Americans living on the south side of Chicago or the suburbs south of the Windy City, Flores’ father Jaime Flores is a diehard White Sox fan. He has the mementoes to prove it.
Liz Flores inherited her father’s White Sox fandom, but she knows enough about the iconic Chicago Cubs brand to have been receptive when the Cubs commissioned her to design the organization’s Hispanic Heritage Night jersey.
“I’m excited,” she said. “It’s been really fun to work on it. It’s been it seems like such a long process.”Liz Flores’ murals can be found in Chicago. Her paintings are also in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Italy. Although she’s clearly versatile, a great percentage of Flores’ work are figurative portraits.
Most of those portraits feature women.According to the 2020 census, Latinos account for almost 29.7 percent of the Chicago population. Whites represent 31.4 percent of Chicago’s population, and African Americans account for 28.7.
Flores is the daughter of a Mexican American father and a Cuban mother. Her mother Lizet arrived in the United States from Cuba at 12 years old. Flores’ Latina pride oozes in her work. She counts the iconic Frida Kahlo, the late Mexican muralist, among her inspirations. She’s also a fan of Mexican artists Hilda Palafox and Ana Leovy.
“I’m very much inspired by like Latinad,” she says. “Being a Latina, just being a woman and womanhood and doing a lot of just storytelling through my paintings.
“And so, you know, I always hope that people can see themselves in the paintings or feel some sort of connection to the story I’m trying to tell through the painting or what I’m trying to say through the painting. And yeah, I would say that’s kind of who I am in a nutshell.”
There will surely be a Cubs addition soon, though.Like a great majority of Mexican Americans living on the south side of Chicago or the suburbs south of the Windy City, Flores’ father Jaime Flores is a diehard White Sox fan. He has the mementoes to prove it.
Liz Flores inherited her father’s White Sox fandom, but she knows enough about the iconic Chicago Cubs brand to have been receptive when the Cubs commissioned her to design the organization’s Hispanic Heritage Night jersey.
“I’m excited,” she said. “It’s been really fun to work on it. It’s been it seems like such a long process.”Liz Flores’ murals can be found in Chicago. Her paintings are also in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Italy. Although she’s clearly versatile, a great percentage of Flores’ work are figurative portraits.
Most of those portraits feature women.According to the 2020 census, Latinos account for almost 29.7 percent of the Chicago population. Whites represent 31.4 percent of Chicago’s population, and African Americans account for 28.7.
Flores is the daughter of a Mexican American father and a Cuban mother. Her mother Lizet arrived in the United States from Cuba at 12 years old. Flores’ Latina pride oozes in her work. She counts the iconic Frida Kahlo, the late Mexican muralist, among her inspirations. She’s also a fan of Mexican artists Hilda Palafox and Ana Leovy.
“I’m very much inspired by like Latinad,” she says. “Being a Latina, just being a woman and womanhood and doing a lot of just storytelling through my paintings.
“And so, you know, I always hope that people can see themselves in the paintings or feel some sort of connection to the story I’m trying to tell through the painting or what I’m trying to say through the painting. And yeah, I would say that’s kind of who I am in a nutshell.”