BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: July 2026

SHEPARD FAIREY painted murals in New Mexico -- in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe -- while he was exhibiting at the Turner Carroll Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe:

Mural in Albuquerque (left) and Santa Fe (right)

ALBUQUERQUE

JULY 26, 2026

Ruth and Virgil Velasco

with Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey at his mural unveiling

Mayor Tim Keller speaking

Stephanie Weiner poses in front of the mural

giving us a sense of scale

AUGMENTED REALITY

Virgil Velasco projecting his ALBU-BRIJE

in front of the mural with

AUGMENTED REALITY

Virgil Velasco's AR figure

in front of Shepard Fairey's mural projected with

AUGMENTED REALITY

Virgil Velasco's AR figure

in front of Shepard Fairey's mural projected with

AUGMENTED REALITY

Virgil Velasco's AR figure

in front of Shepard Fairey's mural projected with

AUGMENTED REALITY

STEAM ENGINE 2926

The train image refers to STEAM ENGINE AT&SF 2926 of Albuquerque:

"It is the world's heaviest 4-8-4, and the sole operating class 2900 locomotive among the last six in existence."

The AT&SF 2926 has been restored and occasionally steams through Albuquerque, as seen in the YouTube videos below:

Quelab Air Force

Training by the last of old Quelab

AT&SF 2926 steam engine

at the Albuquerque Rail Yards -- September 29, 2024

GLASS to MURAL

The mural covers the whole south wall, which used to be glass windows:

Rail Yards Market ABQ -- with Quelab

Note the glass windows at the far end of the ABQ Railyard building in 2024,

which are now covered with the Shepard Fairey mural

Shepard Fairey also threw up some wheat pastes around Albuquerque:

Shepard Fairey in the Barelas neighborhood, in Albuquerque

Shepard Fairey on Central Ave,

between I-25 and Broadway in Albuquerque

Shepard Fairey at Cesar Chavez Ave and 3rd Street

in Albuquerque

Artist SHEPARD FAIREY

(interviewed by the Albuquerque Journal)

SANTA FE

JULY 16, 2026

John Tollett took these photos of the Shepard Fairey mural when he was painting it in Santa Fe on July 16, 2026:

UPDATE (August 25, 2026): I took photos the Shepard Fairy pieces in Santa Fe when I went up there to draw:

The main new mural

at the Santa Fe Art Institute

On the old Smith's at the College Plaza Shopping Center

on Cerillos near St Michaels

Wheat Paste

On Cerillos near St Michaels

Wheat Paste

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The TURNER CAROLL Gallery also brought street artist SWOON to SANTA FE earlier, in May 2026:

SWOON

SWOON giving her presentation

at the Santa Fe Art Institute on May 14, 2026

EXIT

Both SHEPARD FAIREY and SWOON were featured in the Banksy movie EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP:

Exit Through the Gift Shop - Documentary

(Shepard Fairey)

Exit Through the Gift Shop - Documentary

(Swoon)

FOOTNOTE: While Shepard Fairey was in New Mexico, Josh Kerr broke the World Record for running the Mile -- 3:42.66 -- on 18, July 2026. Josh Kerr went to the University of New Mexico, and apparently is a resident of Albuquerque.

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We were inspired by the HUGE 20 feet tall ALEBRIJES & NAHUALES sculptures from Oaxaca installed in downtown Albuquerque from June 1st to July 22nd, 2026 -- and decided to carve our own linocut visions as ALBU-BRIJES -- which we then enhanced with AUGMENTED REALITY using AI:

ALBU-BRIJES -- Alebrijes & Prints

ALEBRIJES are a folk art from Oaxaca which originated in Mexico City in 1936, after Pedro Linares envisioned these chimera animals during an intense illness. When he recovered he made the colorful animals in cartonería (papier-mâché), which got the attention of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

NOTE: ZOZOBRA in Santa Fe was inspired by the same Mexican cartonería (papier-mâché) tradition that ALEBRIJES sprung from

ComfyUI TripoSplat

SuperSpl.at

View our ALBU-BRIJES together

as Gaussian Splats

(28 MB link)

OUR LINOCUT

ALBU-BRIJES

We are calling the ALBUQUERQUE variations -- ALBU-BRIJES:

ALBU-BRIJE PROGRESS

The linocut prints of our own ALBU-BRIJIE versions

of ALEBRIJES

PROCESS

We first enhanced the black-and-white ALBU-BRIJE Prints by coloring and turning them into 3D with AI (in KREA and MESHY):

KREA

MESHY

EzGIF

Linocut print into colorful 3D version

using AI

AUGMENTED REALITY

Two Approaches

ALBU-BRIJES

And then we import the colorful 3D version into two different versions of AUGMENTED REALITIES:

First Approach

ENVIRONMENT AR

<model-viewer>

The colorful AI-enhanced ALBU-BRIJES can be placed in the environment with AUGMENTED REALITY by using their smart phones -- which allows people to take screen shots, as if the ALBU-BRIJES were real:

ALBU-BRIJES --

Albuquerque Alebrijes and Prints --

PART 2

An Augmented Reality ALBU-BRIJE

next to a Real ALEBRIJE sculpture

in the environment in downtown Albuquerque

We used <model-viewer> to generate these environment AUGMENTED REALITY experiences

ALBU-BRIJES -- Real and Augmented

We further animated the ALBU-BRIJES

with AI

View ALL the ALBU-BRIJES from THIS WEBPAGE -- or just click the blue links below to see the Augmented Reality by the following artists:

Virgil

Virgil2

Karl

Barbara

Casandra

Casandra2

Henry

Ellie

Second Approach

MULTIPLE AR

MINDAR

Or view multiple AUGMENT REALITIES after going to just One Single URL. One can just hover their smart phone over the prints, and then a colorful AUGMENTED REALITY figure will emerge. NOTE: The prints act like QR Codes after going to the URL:

July 31, 2026

After going to the QR CODE on the bench,

hover your smart phone over each of the three prints,

to see three different colorful ALBU-BRIJES figures emerge

We used MINDAR to generate the multiple AUGMENT REALITY program (which then has to be hosted on a server)

MINDAR -- ALBU-BRIJES

The MINDAR Augmented Reality experience,

using the print like a QR code

MINDAR -- ALBU-BRIJES

Three prints generate

three different AUGMENTED REALITY figures

We were really excited to see the huge ALIBRIJE Sculptures from Oaxaca in downtown Albuquerque this summer -- and even more sorry to see them go. They really elevated the mood and feeling of downtown.

The first YouTube of the ALEBRIJES in Albuquerque with Classic Cars, but without the prints:

MORE ALEBRIJES -- Real and Fake

ALEBRIJES and NAHUALES with Classic Cars in Albuquerque

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While not previously interacting with the Oaxaca Alebrijes, we have been working with Oaxacan printmakers since 2014, culminating in the AMBOS LADOS International Print Exchange, organized by both El Paso and Oaxaca: