FIRST AMENDMENT GALLERY
1000 HOWARD STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
415.861.5089
TUES-SAT 12PM-6:30PM, SUN 12PM-5PM
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“Eiffe, der Bär” (Eiffe, the Bear) was Germany’s first graffiti artist. Swept up in the student movement of the ‘60s (and some troubles of his own), Eiffe began scrawling his anarchist and nonsensical sayings all over Hamburg in 1968. He soon became widely known, because wherever he would leave his messages (such as “Eiffe for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Doze Green, the living legend, came into 1AM gallery and dropped some knowledge as well as some very limited “Siddhartha” giclee prints. For those of you who don’t know, Siddhartha is the birth name of the founder of Buddhism. After getting lost exploring his print, I think I’ve finally found enlightenment. Measuring 52 by 44 [...]
Graffiti is surely as old as mark-making itself. But Joseph Kyselak, born in 1799 in Vienna, might be the first graffiti writer as we know it, making a name for himself by simply writing it on things. At some point in the early 1820s, Kyselak made a bet with his friends that he could make [...]
Weeks ago, Genentech’s very own Brian G. contacted 1:AM with the idea of hosting a fun event for his team, an event to get their creative juices flowing. It was a tall order but the 1:AM crew gathered some of the best and the brightest teachers/graff artists to come together and set up a workshop [...]
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. [...]
