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This oil painting series began in 2016, in response to the preparations for the 150th mark of Canada’s settler Confederation. It is based on photographic references that I have gathered from my visits to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Appearing in casual poses in front of the paintings, my life-size body may look foreign to the landscape, perhaps tourist-like, seeming like I’ve lost something (or perhaps myself). With the inclusion of frames, cropped walls, and didactic panels, the paintings bring to attention the environment and larger context of art production and narrative-making for the nation. As a history of power, the museums’ paintings hold onto several Canadian myths, of terra nulius, of settler benevolence, of white supremacy. My figure comes into the frame as an interruption of the institution’s neutrality, and that of the original paintings.
Finding Myself at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Oil on canvas
48” x 36”
2019
Finding Myself at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts III
Oil on canvas, 4’ x 5’, 2017
Finding Myself at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts II
Oil on canvas, 6’ x 4’, 2017
Finding Myself at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Oil on canvas, 4’ x 3’, 2017
Finding Myself at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery: 'Celebrating Our Own'
Oil on canvas, 5’ x 4’, 2017
Finding Myself at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts IV
Oil on canvas, 4’ x 5’, 2018
Finding Myself at the Varley Art Gallery
oil on canvas, 36” x 48”, 2021. Commissioned for the Varley Art Gallery’s exhibition “Elusive Desires,” curated by Marissa Largo.
Finding Myself at the Varley Art Gallery
Installation of Florence’s painting alongside Frederick H. Varley’s paintings. Commissioned for the Varley Art Gallery’s exhibition “Elusive Desires,” curated by Marissa Largo.
Still Life with Childhood Snacks
oil on canvas
48” x 60”
2018
Reading Vitamin P3: Sandra Gamarra
Oil on Canvas
12"x16"
2020
Reading Vitamin P3: Masaya Chiba
Oil on Canvas
12"x16"
2020