Tag Archives: mural production

OUTSIDE IN

Are you tired of getting blown around in this wind and rain? Are you soaked to your socks, trying to check out the new murals by Rime, Wand, Yes2, and Keb? Don’t sweat! Our current exhibition “Outside In” brings the murals indoors! For the 2nd time, every cut, every fade, each line, stroke, flare, doo-dad, [...]

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DAVID CHOE

In 2005, Facebook’s President at the time Sean Parker, hired artist David Choe to paint the original Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto. Mr Choe was offered $60,000 for the commission but instead chose to take Facebook stocks. 7 years later it is now 2012 and the stocks he holds could potentially be worth over $200,000,000. [...]

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A Sign of the Times

As the economy struggles and billboards turn to blight, it seems no one is responsible, or liable.  Thanks for the brave whom create in this decay.

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“Outside In” exhibition artists bringing the Elephunk!

How many people can say they brought the Elephunk?  Two of our “Outside In” exhibition artists certainly can as they managed to carve out some time from their busy 1AM gallery installation work to do so.  It all started when a SOMA tech company, Cloudflare, contacted us to add some life to their freight elevator. [...]

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Wand, the west coast Larry Bird?

It was winter of 2009 and I remember being shocked to see Larry Bird come through 1AM gallery.  What was he doing here?  Was he into street art, or coming to grab some colors?  Being a huge Boston Celtics fan, but Warriors fan first, I dashed over to get an autograph.  As I approached Larry [...]

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AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A SHE THANG #2: KICKIN’ IT WITH THE YMCA BAYVIEW GIRLS

You always hear about those male graff artists painting a dope mural, but how often do you hear about female graff arists? Well 1:AM had the pleasure of hosting a private mural workshop for a group of young women(ages 11-14) from YMCA Bayview  These young women, and dare I say future artists, brainstormed a concept [...]

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MURALISTIC – FEAR HEADS COMPLETED!

As we mentioned last week, team 1:AM was in charge of creating Wonderland Show’s Fear Head on Golden Gate x Taylor.  No one knew it was going to turn out as good as it did.  The crew outdid themselves.  Roman Cesario, Robert Gonzalez, and Mitsu Overstreet were the masterminds behind the operation and did an [...]

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RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY…

…come again… next week after Wonderland‘s opening this Saturday on October 17th so, Roman and the crew can finish their mural on Golden Gate x Taylor. WHAT A WEEKEND (plus a Monday)!  If you passed by “Fear Head” yesterday, you may have noticed that there was no one working on the wall because of the [...]

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ROMAN in WONDERLAND

1:AM gallery is part of the project titled “Wonderland”.  This project is curated by Lance Fung, who is “dedicated to the ideas of collaboration, community and social engagement as a means of bringing the highest level of contemporary art to audiences from all walks of life”.  Lance is our kind of guy. Check out the [...]

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Twick-isimo

I wanted to share with you an email we received from a woman who loves the fact that Twick, our Letter Style and Mural Production class teacher and one of the writers from the Golden Age of Graffiti, has painted on 24th and Capp St in the Mission. Read below: ************************* Hi Twick, Just a [...]

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