Mellow week in the SF Bay Area, but there are a few choice tidbits that stick out.

On Kawara has a show at SFAI, if you like big events SF MOMA hosts one by Chris Johanson, and artist/music group Lucky Dragons is featured at Southern Exposure's series "Extended Play."

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Tuesday:
+ Performance: "The Something: Or The Neon Inverse Of Our Neverending Nothing" at Sight School

Wednesday:
+ On Kawara "Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens" at San Francisco Art Institute

Thursday:
+ Aaron Finnis, Bonnie Banks , Jacqueline Gordon "Unraveling Tape" at NOMA Gallery

Friday:
+ Performance: Lucky Dragons "Wrong Spectrum" at Southern Exposure

Saturday:
+ Lindsey White at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ Workshop: Lucky Dragons "Reflects Poonrly" An Extended Play Workshop at Southern Exposure

Tuesday, June 15

Liang Yue "Shanghai Candid: Women in Motion" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, 5:30-7:30pm

"Picturing Power & Potential" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, ground floor, 5:30-7:30pm

Performance: "Before We Were Named" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $12-20, 8pm

Jessica Miller "Flagging Allegiance" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 7-10pm

Open Studio: Adriana Atema "Bruce Lee: Contact us" at Revolver
Haight Ashbury: 136 Fillmore Street, floor 1, Free, 12-8pm

+ Performance: "The Something: Or The Neon Inverse Of Our Neverending Nothing" at Sight School
Oakland: 5651 San Pablo Avenue, 7pm

Wednesday, June 16

? Patrick Dintino "Leisure Quest" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ On Kawara "Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Walter and McBean Galleries, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: Beth Fein, Steven Holloway "Kala Artists-in-Residence Talk: Dance Anywhere" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 7-9pm

Thursday, June 17

"Unraveling Tape" at NOMA Gallery
SOMA: 80 Maiden Lane, floor 3, 7-9pm

+ Aaron Finnis, Bonnie Banks , Jacqueline Gordon "Unraveling Tape" at NOMA Gallery
SOMA: 80 Maiden Lane, floor 3, 6-9pm

Performance: "Now Playing with Chris Johanson and The THING Quarterly" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, 6-9:45pm

Keith Hale "New Drawings" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Ala Ebtekar "re-emergence" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Awesome Number One Big Fun Group Show" at Medicine Agency
Downtown: 1262 Mason Street, 8-11pm

Friday, June 18

Mark Brown "Daydreams" at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

? Marin Camille Hood "These Souvenirs" at BellJar
Mission District: 3187 16th Street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Performance: Lucky Dragons "Wrong Spectrum" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , $8 - $15 sliding scale, 8:30pm

Todd Laby "Stripped" An Exhibit of New Sculptures Exploring Ideas of Depletion and Void at Mina Dresden Gallery
Mission District: 312 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

Amanda Lopez "Calilove" at FreeGoldWatch
Haight Ashbury: 1767 Waller Street, floor 1, 7-11pm

David Duskin, Geoffrey Quinn, James K.M.Watts, Rob Bunzel "Landscape 2x4" curated by Howard Junker at Y2Y Gallery
Richmond District: 251 Balboa Street, 6-8pm

Hadley Williams, Pablo Manga "Everyday is Not the Same" at Branch Gallery
Oakland: 455 17th Street, Suite 301, free, 6-9pm

Double Parlour at Pretty Penny
Oakland: 5488 College Ave, 6-9pm

Saturday, June 19

Nao Bustamante at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, Lower Level, 4-7pm

+ Lindsey White at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-7pm

David Kasprzak "Bless This Mess" at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, the bookstore, 4-7pm

Performance: New Humans at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Free w/ gallery admission, 6-8pm

Performance: Florian Hecker at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Free w/ gallery admission, 4-6pm

Performance: "Poetry on demand by Silvi Alcivar" at Gallery 28
North Beach: 1228 Grant Avenue, Free to meet the poet; $5 and up for a poem, 12-6pm

+ Workshop: Lucky Dragons "Reflects Poonrly" An Extended Play Workshop at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , Advance registration required, 1-4pm

"Ahora en la Mision" Back to the Picture Celebrates 25 Years of Art at Back to the Picture
Mission District: 934 Valencia Street, at 20th Street, 7-9pm

NICHOLAS COLEY "Painting Around the Bay" curated by Steven Lopez at ArtZone 461 Gallery Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, Free, 5-8 pm

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Susan Danis "Celebrating the Universe" curated by Steven Lopez at ArtZone 461 Gallery Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, Free, 5-8 pm

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? "StreetSmARTS Celebration" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (African American Art and Culture Complex )
Hayes Valley: 762 Fulton Street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"StreetSmARTS Celebration" at African American Art and Culture Complex (762 Fulton Street )
Hayes Valley: 762 Fulton Street , Webster, floor 1, 6pm-2am

"Transformative Experience" An Art Exhibition Benefiting the United World Colleges scholarship fund at Art@theOakbrook
Oakland: 423 Water Street, 7-9pm

Sunday, June 20

Artist Talk: Brooke Singer "Superfund365: Tales from the Toxic Tour" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, 3pm

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