Showing posts with label Albuquerque street art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albuquerque street art. Show all posts

30 May 2013

David Foster Wallace, tagger extraordinaire

david foster wallace
Photomontage: Heidi Utz

For this series, I'm taking some of my favorite artists and setting them against murals and street art I've shot in NM and OR that seem to most suit them.

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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