Showing posts with label Albuquerque murals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albuquerque murals. Show all posts

27 April 2014

Quantum Bridge Mural

Heidi Utz Photography, Heidi Utz, Albuquerque murals

Heidi Utz Photography, Heidi Utz, Albuquerque murals

Heidi Utz Photography, Heidi Utz, Albuquerque murals


Heidi Utz Photography, Heidi Utz, Albuquerque murals


My pics from the Quantum Bridge mural at Warehouse 508, 1st St. NW, Albuquerque. 
Please see the June issue of Trend Magazine for one more.
Click to enlarge-they look better that way.
All photos copyright Heidi Utz.

31 July 2012

Native American Murals in Albuquerque

You never know what you might find in Burque's South Valley, but I have to admit I wasn't expecting this...
Or this....








This is La Plazita Institute, a nonprofit grassroots organization that helps link Native American high-risk youth to their traditional values.




In progress....












































I'm deeply impressed by their murals, but don't know much about them. There's more at http://laplazitainstitute.org/.


All photos by Heidi Utz.

07 June 2012

New Shots: Albuquerque Street Art Tour

Children's book mural by Coronado Elementary, 5th & Iron (Barrio Barelas)

Coronado Elementary
Albuquerque murals spring out of adobe walls, bleeding color onto dead mud facades. Summer heat rises, presses forth ancestral image, art of the streets, brings us closer to roots, rising up like a rubber ball. 




Coronado Elementary mural - detail
The Chop Shop, 11th & Lomas, North Valley
Gorman Industries mural, 12th & Bellamah NW
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Chop Shop, North Valley
La Virgin de Guadalupe, Gorman Industries mural
Gorman Industries, 12th & Bellamah
Trainyard mural, 2nd St. near Guadalupe Overpass
Trainyard, 2nd St.
Burque’s muralistas add art to places where art seems unlikely: the salón de belleza, the panaderia, the fence intersecting the long dead Santa Fe RR. Fences and walls come alive, bringing color to our footsteps as they cross June-hot citystreets.
Old & new: Santa Fe Railroad train depot
2nd St. trainyard mural - detail
Iron between 8th & 9th (Barelas)

La Virgin, 2nd & Hazeldine
Si, se puede!  Coronado Elementary



All photos by Heidi Utz. Please credit when reusing.











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