Marco Almera

Marco Almera is a Southern California artist.

Growing up in Orange County, Marco Almera's artistic career emerged from the Southern California surfing, skateboarding and rock 'n' roll subculture of the late 1980s. A Southern California native, Almera was inspired by the do-it-yourself style of this subculture, and began by creating his own graphics and fine art. The artist has many influences and references that show up in his work: the surfing and beach subculture, skateboarding, rock 'n' roll and underground music; the iconic "California Girl", hot rods, iconography and the timeless coastal lifestyle. Having studied at University of California, Santa Cruz, Almera has spent his career working independently creating t-shirt designs, album covers, rock music posters, commercial graphics and commissioned paintings. Over the years, he has enjoyed much success with his art and hand-printed serigraphs in Japan, Germany, England, The Netherlands and all over the United States. Currently, Almera is pursuing a degree in Art: Emphasis in Graphic Design at San Diego State University. His most popular work recently has been his ongoing series of men's t-shirt designs for Harley-Davidson.

The artist began showing his fine art in galleries in 1999, and has since participated in many solo and group shows, mostly on the West Coast. Galleries that have shown his work include The Copro Gallery and La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, The Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Track 16 Gallery Santa in Monica, 111 Minna Gallery and the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, the Huntington Beach Surf Museum, the Huntington Beach Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, the Art Institute of California San Diego and Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle. In 2000, 2001 and 2002 the artist had a series of gallery and local art shows in Antwerp, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Recently, Almera's black velvet paintings of several rock 'n' roll artists have become featured in Alex's Bar, a dive bar and music club in Long Beach, California.

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