NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers presents the New York City debut of British artist Claerwen James with an exhibition of her new paintings that will run from May 21st through June 26th, 2010. A catalog with a foreword by New Yorker critic Anthony Lane will accompany the exhibition. “It is in the nature of any good portrait to withhold as much as it yields, carefully measuring out such information as it contains, keeping plenty in reserve, and thus entering into a new deal, or pact, with every viewer.” This statement by Anthony Lane describes precisely what Claerwen James has done in this new series of paintings, mostly of girls and young women. Her work stands at a deliberate distance to the moments it explores. There is a watchfulness about the figures as they stare out of the picture: a muted privacy that suggests intimacy but gives nothing away. All of