Bay Area Street Art Canvases

If you live in the Bay Area (and specifically the East Bay), you should recognize these icons of local street art. If you’re not from around here, or you don’t get out much to look at walls and street signs, Endless Canvas has been chronicling San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland graffiti culture since 2008. The web and print zine now presents the opportunity to own one of two ubiquitous emblems: a piece by GATS (Graffiti Against the System) and a canvas featuring STAR PIG.

The GATS piece is an 18×18″ 8-color serigraph with spray paint limited to 13 stretched canvases. The STAR PIG canvas is an 18×18″ aerosol, ink and serigraph limited to three of four colors, all with variations. Both artists are no strangers to the East Bay news. Star Pig is an “Anti-Police Street Propaganda Campaign that has been going strong since 2001.” The local paper even quoted Star Pig for an interesting multi-page article about graffiti vigilantism.

GATS really gets into some interesting places (and pieces). Work has shown up from Brooklyn to Rome. I really think GATS could make a killer vinyl figure, so if anybody knows anybody who knows GATS, send word! Above is a GATS wall in Oakland, and below, a street sign stickered by GATS, STAR PIG, and if you look closely, the Doodlesplatter posse.