As wummer (winter in summer) wraps up here in the Bay, all minds and art events are building for a hot fall. In the meantime, Southern Exposure showcases their summer youth program on Wednesday with capable artist/critic Matthew Rana at the helm.  Adobe Books Backroom Gallery lands the interesting and currently ubiquitous Sean McFarland on Saturday.

I made it to the Creative Growth opening last week and it is a really special show with work from international artists in addition to the Creative Growth roster. I would recommend passing by if you are in Oakland and they have a cute new line of clothing merchandise. Creativity Explored has their opening in SF this Thursday.

Artcards Review looks at Sonny Smith's "100 Records," a show that originated in SF and is now in Brooklyn, read it here.

And...

Our colleagues at Daily Serving have reviewed SF show at Baer Ridgeway "It's My World" check it out here.

See you at the shows.

Wednesday:
+ Closing reception: "MiT's SENSEable Cities" Exploring Urban Futures at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
+ Artist Talk: "Tick-Tock: Linear and Visceral Expressions of Time" Jeannene Przyblyski of The Bureau of Urban Secrets in conversation with Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation. at SF Arts Commission Gallery

+ Artist Talk: Hishaharu Motoda, Molly Palmer "Kala AIR Talk" at Kala Art Institute

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Thursday:
+ "And Then..." at Creativity Explored

Friday:

+ Matt Mignanelli "Transformative Illuminations" at Medicine Agency

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+ Performance: "Black Lab" at The Lab
+ Lecture: "Fireworks in the French Art Scene: My Ten Favorites from 'Birth of Impressionism'" by Dr. Jean Audigier at de Young (Golden Gate Park)

Saturday:
+ Sean McFarland "Untitled Landscapes (California)" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

Tuesday, August 17

Conference: "SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures Speaker Series" at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Downtown: 55 Taylor Street, $15, 6-9pm

Wednesday, August 18

+ Closing reception: "MiT's SENSEable Cities" Exploring Urban Futures at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Downtown: 55 Taylor Street, 7-10pm

+ Artist Talk: "Tick-Tock: Linear and Visceral Expressions of Time" Jeannene Przyblyski of The Bureau of Urban Secrets in conversation with Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation. at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 6:30-8pm

Performance: Ace Lehner, Ana Bedolla, Anastasja Robinson, Carlos Ramirez, Llewelynn Fletcher, Matthew Rana "ECHO, ECHOS, ECHOED" Southern Exposure's 15th Annual Mission Voices Summer (MVS) at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , Free, 6-8pm

+ Artist Talk: Hishaharu Motoda, Molly Palmer "Kala AIR Talk" at Kala Art Institute Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 7-9pm

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Thursday, August 19

"The Vernacular Photograph As 'Accidental Art'" at Robert Tat Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7pm

Victoria May "Designed for general use" at Don Soker Contemporary
Downtown: 100 Montgomery Street, Suite 1430, 5-8pm

Closing reception: Victor Reyes "Misspelled" at E6 Gallery / Robert Berman
Civic Center: 1632 Market Street, Suite B, 6-9pm

+ "And Then..." at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

Friday, August 20

"Sound And Vision" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 8pm

+ Matt Mignanelli "Transformative Illuminations" at Medicine Agency Downtown: 1262 Mason Street, 8-11pm

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+ Performance: "Black Lab" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 7-10pm

+ Lecture: "Fireworks in the French Art Scene: My Ten Favorites from 'Birth of Impressionism'" by Dr. Jean Audigier at de Young (Golden Gate Park)
Bernal Heights: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Koret Theatre, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 7pm

Performance: "Premonitions and Coincidences: A Book Exchange and Tarot Card Reading" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 7-10pm

Saturday, August 21

+ Sean McFarland "Untitled Landscapes (California)" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 7-9pm

Breynda Glazier, Charmaine Olivia, Jing Wei, Lisa Congdon, Morgan Blair, Pakayla Biehn, Ryan Riss at Gallery Hijinks
Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

Artist Talk: Jesse Hazelip "Artist Talk Moderated by Rob Clayton" at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, 2-3:30pm

Open Studio: Marsha Blaker, Paul DeSomma "Hot Glass - Cold Beer" at Public Glass
Hunters Point: 1750 Armstrong Street, 6-10pm

Screening: Bassem Yousri "Residency Projects Part I, Film Screenings of documentary films by" at Kala Art Institute Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 2-4pm

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"Juried@bac" curated by Carrie Lederer, Lauren Davies at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Sunday, August 22

Reading: "Xtreme! Unction" PORTUGUESE ARTISTS COLONY presents at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, $5 donation, 5pm

"City Streets" at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

Nathan Richard Phelps "Absolute Subjectivity" at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 6-9pm

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