Tag Archives: Bay Area Graffiti

Catchin Some Reyes at 1AM

  1AM Pen Pushas exhibition featuring Reyes’s original sketches as seen in his book “Misspelled”.  Get both at 1AM before they’re gone.

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Street Dreams are made of this

From the streets to 1AM gallery, Vogue has elevated the bar for spray can art.  If you haven’t seen his street and gallery works, you need to come down to 1AM gallery and witness both.  With Vogue’s solo exhibition at 1AM and two amazing streetside productions nearby, we still can’t get enough. Vogue’s exhibition brings [...]

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Microsoft: Hittin’ the Streets!

Large companies such as Nike and Sony often utilize the talent of graffiti artists for marketing purposes.  The company’s executives form creative strategies that are intended to broadcast their corporation through forms of street art. Most say this style of advertising attempts to reach a hip, urban dwelling audience.  A few years ago, Microsoft adopted [...]

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Memoirs of Vogue opens this FRIDAY!

Vogue TDK’s first ever solo show opens at 1:AM gallery this Friday and he ain’t holding anything back!  Be prepared to be blown away by his photo-realistic canvases.  Only a true master of the spray can could achieve such awesomeness. Here’s a sneak peek: Memoirs of Vogue opens Friday, March 18th fro 7-9:30pm.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: CRAYONE

CLOSING RECEPTION of The Classics tonight at 6:30pm!  Not sure if you can come?  Peep Crayone’s art, one of the talented artists exhibiting in the show, and be motivated to pay us a visit. Crayone’s Bio: Crayone is considered to be a Bay Area Graffiti Art Pioneer. He has been filmed and published many times, [...]

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CURATOR NATHAN TAN, AKA NATE1, ON THE CLASSICS

1:AM sits down with the curator of The Classics, open now through October 16th. Valerie Leavy: What is it about graffiti that lights yer fire? Nathan Tan aka Nate1: It is an art form I started doing as a kid, and I still find it challenging now as an adult some 23 years later. VL: [...]

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NATE1 “MASTER PIECE CREATORS YALL!”

He is an artist.  A curator.  A teacher.  A clothing designer.  An entrepreneur.  A judge for Estria’s Invitational Graffiti Battle.  He loves graffiti and you will know that in the first seconds you meet him.  No one speaks as fondly and passionately about their love affair with graffiti like Nate does. For our current exhibition [...]

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1:AM INTERVIEWS VOGUE, REIGNING CHAMPION OF ESTRIA’S GRAFFITI BATTLE

On the eve of Estria’s 4th Annual Invitational Graffiti Battle, 1:AM had a chance to chat with the reigning champion, Vogue TDK.  Vogue is a talented graffiti artist that has earned street cred since the ’80s and still remains active to this day.  He has also taken the gallery scene by a storm recently and [...]

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1:AM INTERVIEWS JAMES PRIGOFF, CO-AUTHOR OF “SPRAYCAN ART”

Spraycan Art, published in 1987, is one of the earliest documents of graffiti culture and is still relevant. 200,000 copies have been sold and sales continue to climb. Prigoff’s photographic prints from the 80′s are on view now as part of The Classics exhibition at 1:AM, as well as a monumental portrait of the visionary [...]

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AN ACTION PACKED MONTH JUST FOR YOU

Estria and Nate1 along with 1:AM gallery are bringing you an action packed month.  Mark your calendars because this is one helluva month for Bay Area Graffiti…

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