Crocker Art Museum
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Silent Auction 2024

Fri, May 10, 2024 03:00AM EDT - Sat, Jun 1, 2024 04:00PM EDT
Lot 231

JOSE FLORES NAVA, Nopales y Tomates

Estimate: $1,350 - $1,650

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Jose Flores Nava
Nopales y Tomates
2021
Slip-cast and hand-built stoneware, underglaze, glaze, epoxy
12 x 12.5 x 12.5 in.
Fair market value: $1500

Information provided by the Artist: José M. Flores Nava (he/him/él) is a Southern California-based artist. He was born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. at the age of 12. While his interest in the visual arts began at an early age, it wasn't until college that he decided to pursue art as a field of study. Employing a combination of ceramic techniques along brightly colored surfaces, he focuses on the relationship between products of labor and familiar objects. His sculptures take forms associated with household utilitarian needs, as well as crumbled up vessels associated with labor. Using buckets and paint cans as vessels, Nava’s work asks the viewer to consider not only the means that labor and its produce sustain our society but also the individuals whose labor said society depends on. José Flores Nava holds a Master of Fine Arts from California State University, Fullerton. He is a DACA recipient and is currently pursuing a career as an artist and educator.


Overall Dimensions
Height: 12.00
Width: 12.50
Depth: 12.50

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The Crocker Art Museum Association is a tax­ exempt, nonprofit organization as described in section 501 {c)3 of the IRS Code. Our tax identification number is 94-2552486.
Thank you for supporting the Crocker!