Ashleigh Garza

Artist Biography

Ashleigh Valentine Garza is an artist /muralist born and raised in San Antonio ,Texas . Her love for painting walls began as an adolescent ,where she spray painted and tagged the name Treone . Since then she has developed a recognizable style that speaks to femininity,motherhood, community and expanding the creative mind.

Garza has been exhibiting work in San Antonio since 2018 and several known galleries such as Blue Star Art complex , Mercury Project and historical Carver center. In 2020 she began volunteering with the local non profit organization San Anto Cultural Arts and soon after was contracted to work on a series of mini murals among other artists. While contracted through SACA she has been a part of youth programs and community events.

Her first large scale solo mural “Axl and Zelda”(40x12ft) was painted in October 2021 in the West side of San Antonio for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health Department , in part of the Healthy Food Choice stores program. In 2022 she was contracted through San Anto Culture Arts and the City of San Antonio to create a 150 ft x 18ft mural with fellow artist Hailey Marmolejo on historical Market Square located in downtown San Antonio. The project was executed in the summer of 2022 and will be installed in March 2023. In addition to murals Garza enjoys curating and participating in local art events such as Chalk It Up and Events by Centro . Garza has also had her work ... view more »

Artist Statement of Work

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Artist Statement

Painting is a therapeutic experience for me; it's the perfect way to channel my energy, whether it be good or bad, and transform it into something tangible, something that I can hold on to and remember the time I felt the way I did at that moment. It is the way I stop to smell the roses.

In viewing my art, you will find that I have an identifiable art style: the distinctive eyes in each character, the cow and stucco patterns harmoniously working together to create movement within the paintings. The color palette is rich, a reminder of home, or walking around downtown San Antonio breathing in my culture.

My vision is that someone will create a new thought after viewing it. That a child might remember my painting as I remember San Antonio public artist Jesse Trevino’s “Spirit of Healing” when I was a kid. That someone might heal as I did when surrounded by art.

Above all, my art tells a story, not just my story, but any person who views my work and can relate or empathize with the stoic figures. It is for the child, it is for the inner child, for the mother who forgets to love herself, it is for the people who came before me and the ones who will come after.