Lorri AcottKyle Maybe is an artist, filmmaker, and historian originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico. He first began painting with stencils as an undergrad at the University of New Mexico. Twenty years later, he continues to experiment and advance his craft while also working as a freelance documentary filmmaker. Kyle’s film career focuses largely on arts and culture, and his ability to connect with an audience led him to collaborate with renowned artists and institutions from coast to coast. He spent time living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he discovered that his lifelong passion for art could organically intersect with American history. In 2018 he returned home to New Mexico and became utterly consumed by the history and cultural identity of Canyon Road in Santa Fe. It was around this time that he launched his multimedia “Canyon Road History” project and has been feverishly studying the history of the neighborhood ever since. Throughout this nomadic lifestyle as a filmmaker, he never stopped painting with stencils. What began as a love affair with street art eventually matured into an exploration of American art history, and his laborious study of Santa Fe’s past naturally led him to the life and work of Gustave Baumann. The unlikely parallels between the two opened up an entirely new horizon for Kyle’s stencil work. Kyle’s paintings capture the magic of the old adobe buildings that tell so much of Santa Fe’s legendary history, and he renders them with the utmost respect. He stays true to the most minute architectural details while exercising great artistic freedom in expressing the mythic New Mexico skies. He borrows creative techniques from his influences both past and present in order to execute artworks that feel substantially historical and yet uniquely modern at the same time.