Kyle Maybe is an artist, filmmaker, and historian originally from Las Cruces,New Mexico. He first began painting with stencils as an undergrad at theUniversity of New Mexico. Twenty years later, he continues to experimentand advance his craft while also working as a freelance documentaryfilmmaker. Kyle’s film career focuses largely on arts and culture, and his ability toconnect with an audience led him to collaborate with renowned artists andinstitutions from coast to coast. He spent time living in Gettysburg,Pennsylvania, where he discovered that his lifelong passion for art couldorganically intersect with American history. In 2018 he returned home to New Mexico and became utterly consumed bythe history and cultural identity of Canyon Road in Santa Fe. It was aroundthis time that he launched his multimedia “Canyon Road History” projectand has been feverishly studying the history of the neighborhood eversince. Throughout this nomadic lifestyle as a filmmaker, he never stoppedpainting with stencils. What began as a love affair with street art eventuallymatured into an exploration of American art history, and his laborious studyof Santa Fe’s past naturally led him to the life and work of GustaveBaumann. The unlikely parallels between the two opened up an entirelynew horizon for Kyle’s stencil work. Kyle’s paintings capture the magic of the old adobe buildings that tell somuch of Santa Fe’s legendary history, and he renders them with the utmostrespect. He stays true to the most minute architectural details whileexercising great artistic freedom in expressing the mythic New Mexicoskies. He borrows creative techniques from his influences both past andpresent in order to execute artworks that feel substantially historical and yetuniquely modern at the same time.