Caleb E. Gutierrez is a multi-media artist currently residing in Mexico City, originally from Oracle, Arizona. He grew up surrounded by artists near the arts community Rancho Linda Vista and neighbors like painter James G. Davis. In Los Mochis Sinaloa, known as La 12, he began skateboarding at the age of twelve when a friend, Javi, from his grandparent’s neighborhood let him try it on his board. What caught his attention the most was the art and graphics on the skateboards, and that most of the art was made by friends and fellow skaters. It was at this moment that he knew what he wanted to do one day. “Being around artists from my community and growing up skateboarding was definitely the best combo I could ask for.”
Gutierrez has been showing his work since the age of seventeen in exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He designs graphics for Girl Skateboards, which was the first skateboard he purchased as a young kid. He is also a musician and expressed his love of painting with music, skateboarding with music and sharing music. Gutierrez created this body of work, La 12, in Roma Norte, Mexico City, in his studio Apt. 302. Much of the work consists of photographs taken by his mother when he was young that he used to create a series of paintings with based on her photographs and some of his own.