Migrant Boys, Cuidad Juarez, Mexico 2019
13" X 9" - Prismacolor
Artist - Mark Krieger
Inspired by - Speak Your Pain by Leeanna from Artemus Ward School
Suggested Value: $500.00

"I sketched this boy in the refugee ten camps in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico where his family was waiting to seek asylum in the U.S. He was exhausted, quiet and sad. The weather was cold, threatening snow. I took a photo to work from back in Cleveland. When I read Leeanna's poem I thought of him."

Born and raised in Cleveland, Mark Krieger earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Masters from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. His first year of graduate school was spent in Rome and he returned twice to Italy to spend a year painting. In 1976 he moved to Newport, RI. While he was there he traveled frequently to New York where he developed the gallery connections at Allan Stone and Austin. His studio is at 78th Street Studios, where he works on abstract painting and portraits of children whose lives are compromised by forces beyond their control.