Dana Flores, a native Californian, is a self-taught sculptor and jeweler who embarked on her ceramics journey in 1993 at the Potters Studio in West Los Angeles. She has traveled through Central and South America and draws inspiration from the natural beauty and rich history of Mayan temples with their ancient stone carvings, volcanos, jungle plants, and the rustic stoneware in Guatemalan villages became integral to her work. Her works range from large-scale earth-based sculpture and assemblage to intimate works of jewelry. 

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Recent exhibitions include Earthen Echoes, Artier Fine Arts Gallery, Palm Springs, California (2025), Efflorescence, Slate Gray Gallery, Telluride Colorado, Bloom, Telluride Fine Arts Gallery, Telluride, Colorado, and Elements of Earth, Anza Borrego Art Institute, Anza Borrego, California (2022), Padua Art Festival, curated by The Claremont Museum of Fine Art Claremont, California, and Vessel, curated by Eva Chimento, Telluride Fine Arts Gallery, Telluride, Colorado (2020).

Recent press includes Slate Gray South: “Efflorescence” & “Bloom,” Telluride Inside…and Out by Susan Viebrock, 2022, Telluride Gallery: Group Show, “Vessel,” Telluride Inside…and Out, by Susan Viebrock, 2020.

 

In the past twenty-six years Flores has also lived as an entrepreneur and a chef with three children while devoting herself to her artistic expression and career.