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Gear Duran was born in Santa Maria, California in 1978 of Native American. Mexican and Chinese ancestry. Gear’s first job was airbrushing t-shirts in 7th grade after school and quickly learning the  lucrative business of being both an artists and entrepreneur. Always being surrounded with Comic books, video games and late-night sci-fi shows with his grandfather, these were the visual building blocks he used as inspiration from an early age.

His Creations lean towards a dark surrealistic graffiti sci-fi approach. Having been exposed to digital art and photoshop back in 1997, he was living in the midst of the dot com boom era surrounded by hackers, musicians, pc building, pirate radio enthusiasts and guerilla artists. From there his love of cross pollinating both digital and traditional media exploded.

“Think Tron Meets Dark Crystal and Beat Street then toss in some Blade runner.” 

Gear Duran, Artist 

Gear has his Certificate in Digital Production from GNOMON School of Visual Effects, Games and Animation in Hollywood, California (2005-2007). He was also a Keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show Intel’s booth representing Corel corporations release of Painter 2016 and their new physics driven particle brushes. He has working relationships with Wacom Technologies and has demoed with them on many occasions at tradeshows like CES, Adobe Max and NAB. He has had his two mural installations at The LINQ Promenade and at Neonopolis on Fremont Street. Gear was also featured on Netflix Reality TV Show “SKINWARS” season 1 and 3 episodes of SKINWARS (Fresh Paint).

Gear’s has completed projects for Intel, Microsoft, Adobe, Acer, Dell. HP, PPG, The Venetian, Bellagio, Red Bull, Wacom, Corel, Createx colors, Blue Pulse Studios, Requiem Coffee, The LINQ hotel and casino, Tangible Interaction, House of Kolor, Korn, Iwata Airbrush, SprayMax, Red Apple Fireworks, Las Vegas Atours.

Website: gearduranart.com

Instagram: @gearduran

Twitter: @GearDuran

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