US Stamp

The Works of Roger Flores

Known primarily for his civic involvement as a member of the San Antonio city council from 2003-2007, and vice president of his family’s restaurant enterprise, Roger is a lifelong resident of San Antonio and has been painting since the age of 10.  He grew up surrounded by art, those of his parents’ and those they collected. Roger was inspired to start painting after finding a cache’ of his father’s work, and remembers the spark of excitement from the creation of his own first works. “ My parents continuously encouraged me to paint. In times where parents were pushing their children to become doctors and lawyers mine were telling me I was an artist.” 

Roger is largely self-taught and has within the last year been able to focus his time and attention on painting. Roger has used a variety of mixed media and applied those media using many different techniques.  Currently he works with oils and acrylics. “I’ve experimented with many media and techniques to try and create something different, but I have always been pulled back to the workability of oil paint.” Roger still studies the work of artists Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Hans Arp and Joan Miro among others. He has sought an authentic style, which is aesthetically pleasing to the artist and the observer.

“I have always been intrigued by dualities. Humankind can live in dualities as can nature. I enjoy placing chaotic forms over static patterns. I often try to split a painting into two fields or one over the other to represent duality and sometimes symbiosis.”       – Roger Flores

Roger Flores (American, b. 1969)
U.S. Stamp
Acrylic on canvas
78 x 48 inches

Exhibited: Tricentennial Show, Northwest Vista Colleges, March 2018-April 19, 2018.

Note: Painted for the 2018 San Antonio Tricentennial as a representation of what makes San Antonio what it is today.

The painting is a replica of a United States postage stamp.  US Stamp was created as part of a series of paintings remembering HemisFair ’68.  It was HemisFair ’68, known as “The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas”.  HemisFair ‘68 was ‘the spark’ for economic growth, intellectual curiosity and acceptance of multiculturalism in San Antonio. The event occurred during the period of April through October of 1968.