Marcos Gaitan - Featured Artist

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In kindergarten, when most kids were sporadically throwing paint on boards, Marcos was already drawing cars and choppers. "That was the earliest memories of me drawing and it has never stopped. My dad was into building custom cars, so I was exposed to creating at an early age. My family was never really into sports, so going to car shows like the Autorama was our sport and we shared that together as a family." Marcos was also exposed to the phenomenon that was known as cruising Story and King boulevards up in San Jose, California, in the '70s. "When I built my car, I saw it as another piece of art more than a car building project. The car is just another form of a canvas for me."

Even though Marcos didn't have a car at the time, he would attend various car shows to gain his influence from there. "I painted cars because I wasn't as interested in painting people. The subject of most of my paintings are cars, and even though it may sound fairly simple there is a lot of stories of my life in there and the love I have for my culture. So the paintings have a lot of meaning to me and are very personal to me."

Currently Marcos' two girls have also started taking up drawing cars, it's in the blood and in the paint, too.

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