Jim Flora was born in 1914 in Ohio and passed away in 1998 in
Connecticut. Irwin Chusid is a journalist, music historian, radio
personality and self-described "landmark preservationist based in
Hoboken, NJ. Since 1975, Chusid has been a DJ on free-form radio
station WFMU in New Jersey and he is the author of Songs in the Key
of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. He has produced
landmark reissues of the music of composer/bandleader/electronic
music pioneer Raymond Scott, Space Age Pop avatar Esquivel, the
Langley Schools Music Project, and has salvaged the careers of
now-celebrated icons like Jim Flora.
Barbara Economon is a digital media specialist at The Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis, and a former radio host on KFAI. She
provides all image restoration for the Flora collections and
produces fine art prints of selected works.
Baroque and subversive.--Joe Bendel "J. B. Spins"
Jim Flora's artwork is ultraviolet radiation in tempera and ink--it
crackles with such energy, it practically sizzles ozone...This
anthology celebrates a visionary whose work is steeped in vari-hued
paradox...Yet, despite the raucous energy projected in these
hyperactive mosaics, a typical Flora freak circus often projects
harmony and balance--an ordered chaos.--Mark Frauenfelder "Boing
Boing"
Picasso, Matisse, Steinberg, my friend Charles -- they all stole
from Jim Flora, who was both ahead of his time and before his
time.--William Wegman
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