Street Art Cities

By lead artist Alex Rubio aka Rubio @rubioart alongside Mosaic Students (and other youth groups) at Nolan Street Underpass, Dignowity Hill, San Antonio, Texas in August 2013 in collaboration with San Anto Cultural Arts and Blue Star Contemporary Art Gallery. Photos taken March 2026. The mural is 220 x 20-foot. It was restored in 2020 by Lead Restoration Muralists Crystal Tamez and Cassidy Fritts @cassidy.fritts.
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“It’s a very long wall so I tried to make this mural flow across the surface of the wall, creating a wave of color as you drive through the underpass…people that are driving down through an underpass where there’s no place to pull over and park and actually look at the mural, or slowly drive by the mural, have just a split second for it to register. This curvilinear design made the best sense in an underpass mural. The driver going at 20, 30 miles an hour gets that split second to enjoy pure design and pure color and actual movement.” - Rubio - https://www.sananto.org/44—vortex.html