Arvin Flores is a Philippine-born painter with an MFA graduate degree from The School of the Arts, Columbia University,  New York NY, and a BFA from the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara.  He has shown at The University of Massachusetts Amherst's Hampden Gallery, Columbia University's LeRoy Neiman and Wallach Art Galleries, Aljira Contemporary Art Center NJ, Southern Exposure Gallery SF, and Mag:net Gallery, Manila, Philippines.  Arvin has teaching experience at Columbia University NY, California College of the Arts, and the University of California at Berkeley Extension.  In Flores' paintings you will find a hybrid language of abstraction and figuration utilizing a distinct vocabulary of gestural mark making and composition.  These paintings start from spontaneous doodles turning into complex cascades of anthropomorphic shapes and patterns that weave into multiple narratives commenting on the culture of art, history, metaphysics, politics, technology, and the everyday.