The Global Barrio Art Show features works by Mauro Carrera and Creighton Geigle.
This show includes a graffiti and Meso-American culture-inspired series of mixed media machete sculptures, paintings, and mixed media Oho de Dios (God's Eye) artworks by Mauro Carrera. Creighton Geigle's contribution is in the form of life-size deer mounts crafted from found metal and wood objects as well as mixed-media on wood pieces.
Mauro Carrera was born in Veracruz, Mexico. He grew up with a profound appreciation of murals, largely in part because of a number of murals painted in his neighborhood in the early 1990s by Zoombie, a Chicano muralist in the Fresno area. Zoombie became Mauro's first teacher at the age of 10. Mauro first engaged in the practice of mural making in 2004 at Roosevelt School of the Arts Mural Program. In 2008, he took a Fresno City College mural course and then transferred to California State University, Fresno. In 2010, he collaborated with San Francisco-based professional muralist Josue Rojas on a youth collaborative mural in Fresno's West Side. Mauro has been active in the Fresno artistic community; he is a co-founder of the Barrio Arts Collective in downtown Fresno.Check out this artist spotlight video about him.
Creighton Paul Wilhelm Geigle (1988 -) is a California-based muralist, fine painter, sculptor, and photographer currently living in Oakland, California. Raised in Fresno, an active mural city, Geigle's artistic roots are embedded in the community and culture of street art. He has brought that spirit and style into other artistic mediums and built a large body of work that rides the line between industrialism and elegance. Finding beauty in decay, rust and discarded objects, his sculpture work utilizes reclaimed materials to re-imagine the complicated relationship that man and nature share. Geigle’s obsession with color and intricate line work coupled with a penchant for tools and machinery, his work often features precise wood and metal layering, rarely sitting passively flat or square.
After years of personal exhibitions and mural projects, Geigle co-founded Arthouse in 2012 with three fellow artists in Fresno, California. A collaborative effort, they have since transformed the massive warehouse space into a dynamic gallery with studio spaces for working artists. Featuring constantly rotating exhibitions, Arthouse does not take commission from artists and accepts work by both established and new talent in an effort to forge lasting creative relationships and offer support to newcomers.
Creighton P.W. Geigle currently produces new works out of his home in Oakland and continues to be actively involved with the art communities of Fresno and the S.F. Bay area.
Contact: creightongeigle@gmail.com
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