April's First Thursday in San Francisco and First Friday in Oakland are here, with a surprising number of additional events on Saturday too.  Enjoy the extra daylight and the warmer nights of spring to go catch some art openings.

Wednesday:
+ Tour: "Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet" Curator’s Talk curated by Lucinda Barnes at Berkeley Art Museum

Thursday:
+ Dean Byington , Dean Smith at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ Mel Prest "Sky Black Ray" at Gregory Lind Gallery
+ Sherrie Wolf "Animal Life" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery

Friday:
+ Lecture: Tony Conrad "Fantastic Glissando" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ "Out of the Flat Files II" In the Backroom: Bryson Gill Portraits at Triple Base Gallery
+ Mark Warren Jacques "The Optimistic Life & Mind" at Rare Device
+ Screening: "Changing Channels" at Creative Growth
+ "The Cardburg 500" Presented by Cardboard Institute of Technology at Lobot Gallery
+ Renée Gertler "Modality Room" Oakland Art Murmur Reception at Blankspace
+ Moses Saarni at Forthrite

Saturday:
+ Tom Huck "HE TRANSFORMATION OF BRANDY BAGHEAD & OTHER EVIL DELIGHTS" at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ "I Want You To Want Me" at Marx & Zavattero

Sunday:
+ Open Studio: "Graduate Open Studios" at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Tuesday, March 31

"Members Only & Members’ Showcase" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond District: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 2-5pm

Wednesday, April 1

Seamus Conley "Flash/Dissolve" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30 pm

"City Subject" San Francisco Urban Studies at Back to the Picture
SOMA: 1110 Howard Street, 6-9pm

Screening: "Restoring And Rediscovering The Los Angeles Avant-Garde" SF Cinematheque Presents at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $10 regular, $6 seniors, students & teachers, $6 YBCA and SF Cinematheque Members, 7:30pm

David ball at Cigar Bar and Grill
Downtown: 850 Montgomery Street, 7-10pm

"A Return to Painting- A Group Exhibition" at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30 pm

Lecture: James Welling "Pilara Foundation Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free, 7:30pm

Trevor Traynor "I Shoot People" at D-Sturcture
Hayes Valley: 520 Haight Street, 8-11pm

+ Tour: "Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet" Curator’s Talk curated by Lucinda Barnes at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Free with museum admission, 12:15pm

Thursday, April 2

Carolyn Meyer , Kenney Mencher "in BLACK and WHITE" at ArtHaus
SOMA: 411 Brannan Street , 6-8pm

Susan York "Porcelain & Graphite" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 5-7pm

Tour: "SOMA muralScattered Roots, Finding a Pathway" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
SOMA: 1070 Howard Street, at 6th Street, street level, www.somcan.org, 5:30-7:30pm

"Even in Arcadia" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

"Domestic Vacations" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

Sean McFarland "The 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

+ Dean Byington , Dean Smith at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30 pm

Dana Harel "Kin" at Frey Norris Gallery
Downtown: 456 Geary Street, 6-9pm

Lyndi Sales "in transit" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30 pm

+ Mel Prest "Sky Black Ray" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7:30pm

Allen Guilmette "Bending the Rule" at Togonon Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, 5:30-8pm

Mark di Suvero "New Work" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30 pm

"the newspaper show" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Emily Clawson "Navigating Fragments" Wing Interpretations in Wax at Cafe Royale
Downtown: 800 Post Street, 8-Midnight

Mansour Ghadarkhan , Willliam Dunn "Observations" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Marius Bosc "Éclat de Lumière" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30 pm

at Scott Richards Contemporary Art
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30 pm

+ Sherrie Wolf "Animal Life" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30 pm

David Fullarton at Hang Art
Downtown: 556 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

? "Time Lapse" at Hang Art (HANG ART )
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, Hang Art annex, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Michael Azgour , Suzanne Crocker, Tracy Taylor Grubbs "Moments in Impermanence" at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

"LOCALITY" An SFAI Group Show at Mission Art Center
Mission District: 2183 Mission Street, 8-11pm

Screening: Valie Export "Invisible Adversaries" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus, 7pm

? "The Icon And The Iconic" at Manresa Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 650 Parker Avenue, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Hush "Veiled Beauty" at FIFTY24SF Gallery
Hayes Valley: 248 Fillmore Street, 7-9pm

Friday, April 3

Closing reception: Willett Moss "Made in Rome: The Aleatoric Landscape" at 3A Gallery (Mark Horton / Architecture )
SOMA: 101 South Park Street, 6-8pm

Bruno Fazzolari "Cold Turkey" at Gallery 16
SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

Jennybird Alcantara "Treacherous Gardens" at Varnish Fine Art
Downtown: 77 Natoma Street, at First Street, 7-10pm

+ Lecture: Tony Conrad "Fantastic Glissando" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free, 5pm

Brett Amory, Nancy Chan "SPACES" at HYDE ST GALLERY
Russian Hill: 1987 Hyde Street, 6-10pm

Group Show "New Works" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

+ "Out of the Flat Files II" In the Backroom: Bryson Gill Portraits at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

"The Green Show" at City Art Gallery
Mission District: 828 Valencia Street, 7-10pm

+ Mark Warren Jacques "The Optimistic Life & Mind" at Rare Device
Hayes Valley: 1845 Market Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Chris Nickel , Eric Mertens "Antipodes" at Kuhl Frames +Art
Oakland: 412 22nd Street, 6-9pm

+ Screening: "Changing Channels" at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , 7:30pm

Jason Byers, Patricia Wakida "[Print] Run" at 21 Grand
Oakland: 416 25th Street, 7-9pm

John Casey "Distant Cousins" at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 6-9pm

+ "The Cardburg 500" Presented by Cardboard Institute of Technology at Lobot Gallery
Oakland: 1800 Campbell Street, 18th Street, 8pm-Late

+ Renée Gertler "Modality Room" Oakland Art Murmur Reception at Blankspace
Oakland: 6608 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

+ Moses Saarni at Forthrite
Oakland: 5857 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

"Flaming Furbelows" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

"HEROES AND VILLAINS" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

Bonnie Banks "The Rubber (() Cement Cubed Multi Cerebrum Random Bango Mesodermuzzle ©" at Well
Oakland: 4233 Telegraph Avenue, 6-10pm

"DIGNIDAD REBELDE" The Art of Portest at Pueblo Nuevo
Berkeley: 1828 San Pablo Avenue, 6pm-12am

Peter Tonningsen "Descent" at A Different Day Gallery
Albany: 1233 Solano Avenue, 6-9pm

Saturday, April 4

"3 in Glass" Brown - Guerrero - Sandoval at Sculpturesite Gallery
SOMA: 201 3rd Street, Suite 102, 5-7pm

+ Tom Huck "HE TRANSFORMATION OF BRANDY BAGHEAD & OTHER EVIL DELIGHTS" at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-6pm

+ "I Want You To Want Me" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7pm

Dan McCarthy, Daniel Danger "The Watcher in the Woods" at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

"12th Activating the Medium Festival" A Retrospective on the Sound Art of Tony Conrad at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Entrance fee: general, $15; SF Cinematheque members, students, seniors, $10; SFAI students, faculty, and staff—free, 8pm

"Crucero Artero- A bi-monthly arts bazaar at Studio 24" at Galeria de la Raza
Mission District: 2857 24th Street , 2-9pm

"UNDER THE BIG TOP" at Femina Potens
Mission District: 2199 Market Street, 7-9pm

Porous Walkers' "Me vs. Me" at Receiver Gallery
Mission District: 1415 Valencia Street, 6-10pm

Migdalia Valdes "Every Day in Black and White" at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Visual + Critical Studies Symposium 2009" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus, 10am-4pm

Treatzone (Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis) "Familiar Dreams" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Hannah Henry "Small Ruins" at Rowan Morrison Gallery
Oakland: 330 40th Street, 7-10pm

Lecture: "New Nature" at Alphonse Berber Gallery
Berkeley: 2546 Bancroft Way, 7-8pm

Sunday, April 5

"The Continuous Spectrum" at double punch
Downtown: 1821 Powell Street , 7pm-Late

Screening: "San Francisco Cinematheque Film Screening" The Films and Videos of Tony Conrad at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Entrance fee: general, $10; SF Cinematheque members, students, seniors, $6; SFAI students, faculty, and staff—free, 7:30pm

+ Open Studio: "Graduate Open Studios" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 12-5pm

Auction: "Berkeley Art Center's Prints and Posters Silent Auction and Sale" at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, 5:30-7:30 pm

Monday, April 6

Shawn Feeney "Musical Anatomy" at CounterPULSE
SOMA: 1310 Mission Street, 5-7pm

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