Murals by Derek Gores, as seen in Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

Reimagined

Derek Gores is the mastermind behind this stunning blonde located at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel. He takes pride in recycling magazines, labels, data, and assorted found analog and digital materials to create collages on canvas. "I like my pictures to barely come together with teasing little details. Sort of like how the mind can't help but wander, even when trying to focus on one thing. In the collages, some of the little bits I use are deliberate, but in most I'm trusting randomness to help build an end result more interesting than I could have planned. One friend calls it a 'Zen Narrative.' "

inLoews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

Meet the Creator

Derek Gores

Melbourne, FL

Born in New York 1971
BFA RISD 1993

In his collage portraits, Derek Gores recycles magazines, labels, data, and assorted found analog and digital materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores' contrasting interests in the living beauty of the figure, the angular and abstract design aesthetics of fashion, and a fearless sense of play. His fine art canvases are exhibited by galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, Cologne, Miami, Santa Fe and more. Gores' design clients include Dwell Magazine, Lincoln Motor Co., ESPN, Lenny Kravitz, Lucasfilm, Kings of Leon, U2, Adidas, Madonna, Harley Davidson, Standard Collective, the National Football League, LiveNation, SEIU and more.

The Rhode Island School of Design grad lives and works in Melbourne, Florida, exhibiting and curating with the bold upstarts there, surrounded by the intellect and culture of the Space Coast. Derek was honored to have his work selected for the Manifest Hope DC exhibit coinciding with the Presidential Inauguration in 2009, and in 2010 he was named "One of the 40 important artists of the New Contemporary Movement", while in an exhibition in London.

Available for commission/custom work