Oscar De Las Flores, The Even Sweeter Death of Oscar de Las Flores

Four inches square, that last one. Pen and ink. Bar-raising madness.

Oscar De Las Flores, Tragic Portrait of the Artistic Talent of Mr. Oscar Camilo de Las Flores, Dead in the Flower of it’s Infancy

While not from Chicago, he’s at least in posession of Chicago’s new must-have artist-accessory: a Canadian citizenship. If that’s not good enough for you, Santa Ana, El Salvador is only two longitudal degrees off  from Chicago, a fact that makes him more midwestern than all of Davenport. 

Check out more of his work at Katharine Mulherin, Ontario, Canada.

Also, as that link is a prime example of a problem I’ve been running into more and more, now would be a good time to strongly encourage artists and galleriest to host some high quality, reasonably high resolution photographs of your/your artists’ work. Somewhere. Anywhere. Watermark them if you have to, though you really have nothing to worry about. Its no fun when anyone can grab full resolution photos of every unknown and unskilled artist in the world, but nearly every gallery worth its salt somehow believes in keeping their best work thumbnailed to hell. Awful waste, ridiculous nonsense, especially in the case of dense work like De Las Flores’.