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Estria Graffiti Arts Festival is here!

Estria and his team have been traveling from NY to Honolulu to LA finding graffiti artists who reign supreme. Now, they’re bringing Estria Graffiti Battle home to Oakland for the finals where the champions from all over the country meet at last to see who truly can be named king or queen. The finals is [...]

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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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ESTRIA’S CAN FILM FESTIVAL @ 1:AM TOMORROW!

Estria is kicking off his 4th Annual Invitational Graffiti Battle tomorrow night at 1:AM Gallery.  “The Can Film Festival” will start at 6 and run through 10:30pm.  We will be playing the renegade film, Dirty Hands, the Art and Life of David Choe and an ’80s classic, Beat Street.  As a special treat, Harry Kim, [...]

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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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ARE YOU READY? ESTRIA’S “COME TO CONQUER” KICKS OFF IN 2 WEEKS!

Here is the official press release… Make it happen, peeps.  Support the urban arts and people who are trying to make a difference! The 4th Annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle and “Come to Conquer” Graffiti Series Features the West Coast’s Top Graffiti Artists in One Day Competition September 13, 2010 (OAKLAND, CA) – Graffiti living legend [...]

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THE CLASSICS… ROLL CALL!

The Classics exhibition is celebrating the artists from the Bay Area’s Golden Age of Graffiti.  The show is designed to educate street art lovers and collectors about the people and the time period that progressed this artistic craft to its’ popularity today.  It opens tonight at 1:AM Gallery.  Be here. Peep the killer line-up: Crayone [...]

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CERN IS BACK FOR GRAPHIC ATTACK!

Last October, Estria held his “Don’t Sweat the Technique: Ode to the Spray Can” exhibition at 1:AM gallery. During that show, we displayed works by CERN, a New York graffiti artist who creates a unique blend of fantasy and realism and blurs the lines between graffiti and fine art. And now his back. And we [...]

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THE WINNER CIRCLE

As we have been pluggin’ all month, Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle finals were this past Saturday.  Dan brought the new Graffiti New York and the collector book Graffiti LA to the event to sell at our booth.  Jim Prigoff and Steve Grody were on hand signing the books and sharing their knowledge on the evolution [...]

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BOMBIN’, TALKIN’, STYLIN’

Last night, 1:AM gallery hosted Estria’s “Can Film Festival”, one of his events leading up to his Invitational Graffiti Battle tomorrow at deFremery Park, Oakland.  We kicked off the night with “Bomb It!”, grabbed food from Adobo Hobo and Brazilian Bites, discussed intellectually about graffiti’s impact on society, talked about underground vs. mainstream, and then [...]

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MEET THE PANEL

The Can Film Festival is tonight at 1:AM Gallery.  In between the showing of “Style Wars” and “Bomb It!”, there will be an open discussion panel talking about keeping graffiti real and how graffiti influences social changes.  The panel consists of the following five people who are experts in the urban arts:

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