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Michael flohr biography

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Michael Flohr

“I can tell different feelings and attitudes you get from people—from their faces and conversations—and I blend their figures and gestures.”

Nightlife in cafés mirrors the social status quo, he observes. “You get a lot of views on what is going on in the world, hearing what people are saying. A man earning a million dollars sits next to someone who can barely afford the beer they are drinking—so many different worlds come together in a bar or café.”

To some extent, Michael paints rather than writes his social commentary. “I am not the best writer,” he admits. “I have these great thoughts and they come out better on canvas than as the written word on paper.” His broad, square, brushstrokes, creating almost a mosaic effect, obscure the figures inhis paintings, leaving an illusion of the characters depicted to tell the story in vivid, pure pigmented colors through their gestures and subtleties. At a young age it was found he suffered from dyslexia, and by second grade had fallen behind in school. As a result, his parents arranged tutoring, consisting of math, reading

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Michael Flohr Gallery


It is a rare and celebrated occasion when an artist is discovered that has a unique talent, fresh vision and exceptional ability to transcend artistic predisposition. Painter Michael Flohr is just such an artist. Flohr’s work is a visual adventure. Not only in its exquisite beauty, obvious artistic integrity and the emotion elicited in every work of art, but in the artist’s ability to effect the invention of a genre unique and true in and of itself in today’s contemporary art world. Depicting ordinary moments in extraordinary ways, Flohr’s work is an intellectually artistic mastery of color, perspective, technique and vision.

Blazing a trail that is sure to influence the eyes of fine art collectors around the world, Flohr’s work is also sure to impact other emerging artists for years to come. Michael Flohr is a young California artist, currently living and working in San Diego where he was born and raised. Recognizing his artistic aptitude at a very early age, Flohr’s parents enrolled him in his first art class at the age of five. His family’s perp

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Be InspiredBlog

Michael Flohr, one of California’s hottest young ‘urban’ artists, has carved a niche for himself as an ‘urban painter.’

His work, actually the artist himself, is more than that: Flohr not only captures scenes of city life with his work, the work succeeds in imparting to the viewer the ‘feel’ and the ‘rhythm’ of the city.

Cities—especially vibrant ones such as Flohr’s most often -used choice, San Francisco—have a current. A pace. A ‘groove’. And as much as we like to associate “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” with that city, when we go there at night, we just don’t hear Tony Bennett in our minds. We hear something a little more frenetic. A little more ‘allegretto.’ We hear Coltraine. . . We hear Dizzy. . .  We hear Jazz – – – Flohr’s work is the visual equivalent of Jazz music. Jazz takes an eight or sixteen bar phrase, establishes it as a theme, then strays into an improvisational interpretation of that theme by seeing how far out it can get while still staying in the chords—which, by the way, is the origin of the 60’s hippy phrase,

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