" title="Geoffrey Kieran" width="350" height="423" class="size-full wp-image-13657" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Geoffrey-Kieran.jpg?w=350&ssl=1 350w, https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Geoffrey-Kieran.jpg?resize=248%2C300&ssl=1 248w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" />Although Kieran was born in Liverpool, England, he has lived in California since he was 8 years old. He spent most of his younger years surrounded by music and art and, though he has been drawing and making art for as long as he can remember, he only just discovered his “true” medium about 15 years ago. It was at that time, in 1997, when he began to build “assemblages” made out of found objects, and according to Kieran, “the direction of my artistic style was established.”
Today he is a mixed-media sculptor/painter who creates artwork mainly out of found objects. Most of his newer works are part of a series called Staurolatry, which is defined as the study or worship of the cross or crucifix. His work weaves textures and objects (many times crosses) together to create something visceral— it’s about provoking an aesthetic that creates an emotional response, either good or bad, on topics he is passionate about, like pollution, subversion and religion. He uses the cross shape not only as a symbol, but literally as well, and the use of the cross is not meant to be a positive or negative statement concerning religion, but only to provoke questions about people’s beliefs.
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