Artist Gear Duran and cultural consultant Brian “Paco” Alvarez have put a name to the style of Duran’s beautiful mural of a wild mustang, painted on the law offices of Gerald I. Gillock & Associates: “Neo Urban Cubism.”

It’s a perfect descriptor for the scene, which recreates a encounter from our Nevada wilderness using a palette of vivid, electric city colors. Even in a Downtown full of world-class street art,

Duran’s work, in Downtown Las Vegas at 4th Street and Clark Avenue, stands out and stands apart.

Duran says that he and Alvarez brainstomed for ideas about something that expressed the idea of Nevada. “We started with some of the sort of flora and fauna of our state, and we wound up landing on the mustang. ... For me, it’s what Vegas is. It’s wild. It’s crazy. It’s resilience, it’s beauty, it’s the amount of bravery in engineering feats that it took to create this place that we call home.”

And it resonated with the attorney who commissioned it. “[Gerald Gillock] actually rides horses; they’re his passion,” says Alvarez. “He wants to have a naming contest for the horse. We’re using ‘The Spirit of Nevada’ as a working title.”

For his part, Duran is happy to have created something so full of life, and in a style that resonates with him.

“For me, graffiti is Americana,” he says. “It’s a part of our culture.”

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