Here is the link to the full article in Hi Fructose

Graff junkies getting funky fresh on 6th and Howard. Check out the video to get a feel of what 1AM’s Art of Graffti 2.0 class has to offer!

Interested? Intrigued? Tickled pink? Contact Gina at: classes@1amsf.com for more information, or CLICK HERE for online enrollment.

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

“I started riding bikes at an early age with my friends.   At that time, BMX was completely new in all aspects since freestlye had just began.  It took hold of us and had us going out to the streets to perfect the things we were absorbing through the magazines.  As time went by, I went to Golden Gate Park every Sunday for years and immersed myself with other kids that wanted to master this freestyle craze as well.  The freestyle scene had blown up and eventually I started traveling to and competing in freestyle competitions.”

“As the growing pains of life continued, I began looking towards my future and college and immersed myself into my art career.  BMX riding exposed me to the urban culture surrounding the city and helped the artist inside me to pick up a can and immerse myself in the graffiti culture.  Having the best of both worlds, I would ride the streets and stop to create street art.  With the beginning of my art career, I didn’t stop riding.  I kept riding with my friends to release the competitiveness inside of me.  My life, at that time, was completely absorbed by riding and painting.”

“I can’t pinpoint when or what changed in my life to lead me to embrace graffiti and stop riding the streets.  Most likely it was the deeper and growing connection I had with art which overcame my passion for BMX freestyle.  At that moment in life, I made the commitment to take the competitiveness I had inside from riding and fully redirect it to the walls.  I’ve never looked back since.  I enjoyed a good decade of freestyle BMX riding which connected me to a lot of friends that I still have to this day.  I love bikes and they are an important part of me and my art.”

Vogue

Vogue’s exhibition brings glimpses of his life to the viewer using only spray cans.

Nothing lasts forever, so make sure to get up close and personal before its gone.  If you’d like to view the purchase the remaining artwork, please visit us at store1amsf.com.

Measuring 52 by 44 inches in total size (45 x 30 for artwork), ONLY THREE of these “Siddartha” prints are in existence.   We only have two left so get your Doze of Zen before its gone.

Doze Green speaks in a unique creative voice from the collective consciousness, applying a symbolist approach to metaphysical concepts. A New York City native, and often compared to Basquiat, his urban background and involvement in the early hip-hop/graffiti movement of NYC in the late 70’s, early 80’s as one of the original members of the Rock Steady Crew, led him to transition from creating art in the streets and subways into the gallery setting. Green’s signature aesthetic combines stylized letterforms and figurative abstraction—using an array of mediums such as ink, gouache, and metallic pigments with an evolved, organic cubist quality to his high-contrast fluid line work. The artist’s genealogy inspires many of the themes explored therein, influenced by ancient civilizations and indigenous cultures, including his own Afro-Caribbean roots. Green’s totem-like human and animal figures are often conceptually based on various polytheistic deities. These divinities represent sentinels, the guardians of universal truths, immortal warriors warning mankind of the dangers contemporary society has manifested, looming on the horizon and threatening to destroy us.

Words sometimes don’t paint the whole picture so check out this video with Mars1 to get the lowdown.