May I start by saying that photographing San Miguel de Allende’s new Urban Art Gallery in a highway underpass is best not done during Friday morning rush-hour traffic.

I mean, really, at how many art galleries can you say you take your life into your hands stepping out in front of a picture, trying to take a decent photograph?

Nevertheless, that is when I got there and that is when these photos were taken.

Not a one does justice to the ten murals that have been created since Monday on the Libramiento underpass leading into Colonia San Antonio (just south of Hospital H+).

You really have to see them up close — and even from across the street — to appreciate what these artists put into their work.

Here are the ten, completed in just four days, some in even less time:

Previous stories on the Urban Art Gallery project:

• Urban Art Gallery takes shape in a San Miguel highway underpass
• At first brush: San Miguel’s open-air Urban Art Gallery is many strokes of creative genius

Other San Miguel mural stories:

• Up against the wall: 10 San Miguel de Allende murals with a message to mask up
• Murals with a message say it loud: I mask-up and I’m proud
• One thing leads to another: A mural grows in Colonia San Antonio