This is an open group for people drawn to graffiti, street art and photography. The Bay Area is home to a great many murals and tags and outdoor art installations and were here to explore and enrich them ;) I encourage you to participate as much or as little as you would like by discussing new and exciting new places to meet and enjoy some art under the sun! or maybe lurk in the moonlight. Welcome!
San Francisco is a hotbed for lowbrow art so I created this group to explore local lowbrow happenings, and to meet other enthusiasts. Viewing gallery openings and hops are a staple at galleries like White Walls, The Shooting Gallery, 111 Minna, Electric Works, 1:AM Gallery and Lower Haters to name a few. Also films relating to lowbrow culture, viewing murals/graffiti and related events will be posted here. Open to suggestions or a heads up about other events, maybe a live art night at a cafe …
… All have common features of worn or abandoned buildings, rusted equipment, signs of past industry and forgotten history, graffiti-tagged, etc. For the uninitiated it could look like old gritty places ready for the bulldozer, but for us there is beauty there ready to be captured in film/pixels. There are some risks exploring these places but because of the various abilities of the members the risks here are minimum as long as you follow the host’s lead. Those who don't, who stray from the grou …
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