Gallery 16 in San Francisco and Sight School in Oakland are my top picks for this week.

It is one of those odd weeks where there are a lot of events, but it is difficult to discern which one holds the satisfying excitement of a good art show. If you have any picks for next week, email me at sfinfo@artcards.cc.

Friday:
+ Sonny Smith "100 Records" at Gallery 16

+ "ICONS AND ALLEGORIES" at Sight School

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+ "Women’s Time: Martin and Truitt in the Moment of Minimalism" Lecture by Anne Wagner at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:
+ Artist Talk: Luther Thie & Kathrine Worel, Ali Richards, Alice Shaw, Eirik Johnson, Nell Dickerson "Siege" curated by Lauren Davies at Kala Art Institute

Monday:
+ Lecture: Tauba Auerbach "Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series" at UC Berkeley (University of California)

Wednesday, April 7

Brian Goggin, Bryan Tedrick, Deirdre de Franceaux, Frances Baker, Jeff Schomberg, Jennybird Alcantara, Jonathan Solo, Laura Kimpton, Lee Harvey Roswell, Tony Speirs "The Anxiety Show" curated by Christine Kristen at Project One
Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 7pm-2am

Thursday, April 8

Tam Van Tran "Mind is a Pure Expanse of Space" at Anthony Meier Fine Art
Downtown: 1969 California Street, at Octavia, floor 1, 6-8pm

Duane Deterville, Kamau Amu Patton, Karen Seneferu, Malik Seneferu, Nicole Dixon, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Willie L. Little "Past Forward: African Spirituality in Contemporary Black Art" at African American Art and Culture Complex (762 Fulton Street )
Hayes Valley: 762 Fulton Street , Webster, floor 1, 6-8pm

Lecture: John K. Melvin "Non-Object Objectification and Abstraction (Or how not to have the thought)" 21 Projects x 21 days x 21 Hours at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7pm

Friday, April 9

Open Studio: "SOMA Open Studios Preview Exhibition" at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 7-10pm

Elizabeth Bernstein, Ryan Hendon "Complex: or, if a metaphysician couldn’t draw, what would he think?" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-11pm

Thomas Heinser "Überblick" at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

+ Sonny Smith "100 Records" at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

Sean Desmond "The Tenderloin Project" at Medicine Agency
Downtown: 1262 Mason Street, 7-11pm

Nick Mann (a.k.a. Doodles) "Don't Take Vaccines" at Needles & Pens
Mission District: 3253 16th Street, 6-9pm

? Topher Delaney "Genesis on the Rocks" at Thacher Gallery (University of San Francisco)
Western Addition: 2130 Fulton Street , (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Jakub Kalousek "FOR MY FRONDS ON THE PHASEBOOK" prolegomena into future relationships at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Joshua Mays "The Golden Moment" at Air Castle Gallery
Marina District: 1706 Steiner St, Post St, floor 1, 7-10pm

+ "ICONS AND ALLEGORIES" at Sight School Oakland: 5651 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

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+ "Women’s Time: Martin and Truitt in the Moment of Minimalism" Lecture by Anne Wagner at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Museum Theater, 6pm

Mitchel Cohen "Art in Print" at Firehouse Collective (Firehouse Nouth)
Berkeley: 1790 Shattuck Avenue, 7-10pm

Saturday, April 10

Stephanie Syjuco "Viewing Room Presentation" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 12-2pm

John Slepian "The Phenomenology of Painting" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 12-2pm

Charles Gute "The Corrections" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 12-2pm

Artist Talk: Charles Gute "The Corrections" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 11am-12pm

"Taste 2010 Exhibition: A Garden of Earthly Delights" curated by Jessica Wallen, Michelle Mansour at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-10pm

Adam Wallacavage, Albert Reyes, Alexis MacKenzie, Andy Diaz Hope, Brian Cooper, Chris Yormick, Cody Hoyt, Cody Hudson, and more at Guerrero Gallery
Mission District: 2700 19th Street, 7-11pm

Kyle Knobel "High Life" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 7-10pm

Alison Pebworth "Other Possibilities" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
Mission District: 365 Valencia street, 6-9pm

Lecture: Andrew Rottner "Horsin' Around with Andy Volume 1: Lost Legends of Soul" 21 Projects x 21 days x 21 Hours at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 6pm

Mark Pechenik at LightRoom Gallery
Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 2-5pm

+ Artist Talk: Luther Thie & Kathrine Worel, Ali Richards, Alice Shaw, Eirik Johnson, Nell Dickerson "Siege" curated by Lauren Davies at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 2pm

"The Art of Transformation" at John F. Kennedy University Berkeley: 2956 San Pablo Avenue, floor 2, Arts & Consciousness Gallery, free and open to public, 6-9pm

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Sunday, April 11

Lecture: Beth Alice Cook "Urban Dating Seminar" 21 Projects x 21 days x 21 Hours at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 3pm

Screening: Dan Graham "Saturday Morning Cartoon Ceremony" 21 Projects x 21 days x 21 Hours at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, Pajamas encouraged!, 11am

Monday, April 12

"Discovering Space" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Lecture: Tauba Auerbach "Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series" at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: Kroeber Hall, 160 Kroeber Hall, 7:30-9:30pm

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+ = Editor's pick
? = Opening not confirmed - check site for updates.