First Thursday in San Francisco brings a deluge of art openings and events this week. Also sprinkled throughout the weekend are CCA's annual MFA presentation, SF MOMA opens a new Rooftop Garden, SF Arts Commission Gallery presents a super group show, and Creative Growth celebrates a year in its new space. Have fun!

Tuesday:
+ Pae White "In Between the Outside-In" at New Langton Arts
+ Abraham Cruzvillegas "The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

Thursday:
+ Enrique Chagoya "2012: Super-Bato Saves the World" at Electric Works
+ "Giorgio Morandi" Works from the Estorick Collection at Italian Cultural Institute
+ Gregg Renfrow "Atmosphere" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
+ Bob Matthews "Garden Ruin" at Gregory Lind Gallery
+ Bernd & Hilla Becher "A Survey: 1972-2006" at Fraenkel Gallery
+ "MFA Exhibition 2009" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
+ "Home 2009" Our Annual Home Show at Creative Growth

Friday:
+ "Trace Elements" SFAC Group Show at SF Arts Commission Gallery
+ "Live & Direct" curated by Amanda Curreri at Ping Pong Gallery
+ Screening: "De Montréal: video event" at A.T.A.
+ Vanessa Marsh "Always close but never touching" at Ampersand International Arts
+ Amanda Lopez "Retratos de la Familia" at Pueblo Nuevo

Saturday:
+ Artist Talk: "Bill T. Jones In Conversation" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Isabel Samaras "Into The Woodz" at Shooting Gallery
+ "Pencil Pushers" The Art of Graphite at GRSF (Giant Robot)
+ "Z-axis" at Lobot Gallery

Sunday:
+ "Rooftop Garden Opens" at SF MOMA
+ "A Day to Explore" at David Wilson Projects (Rodeo Cove)

Tuesday, May 5

+ Pae White "In Between the Outside-In" at New Langton Arts
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 7-10pm

+ Abraham Cruzvillegas "The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 7pm

Wednesday, May 6

Artist Talk: Arnold J. Kemp, Jina Valentine, Weston Teruya at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, Mezzanine, 6:30pm

Benefit: "Silent Auction & Cocktail Party" at San Francisco Center for the Book
Potrero Hill: 300 De Haro Street, $20 and up, 5:30-7:30pm

"Sweet 16 Annual Event Features Hundreds of Original Works by Bay Area Artists" Special Preview Reception at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, Tickets $10, 6-9pm

Thursday, May 7

+ Enrique Chagoya "2012: Super-Bato Saves the World" at Electric Works
SOMA: 130 8th Street, 6-8pm

Lenore Chinn "Just Chinese Enough: The Art of Lenore Chinn and Bob Hsiang" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 5-8pm

"EPIC: Visualizing Heroes Within" The 12th Annual United States of Asian America Festival at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 5-8pm

+ "Giorgio Morandi" Works from the Estorick Collection at Italian Cultural Institute
North Beach: 425 Washington Street, floor 2, 6:30-9pm

+ Gregg Renfrow "Atmosphere" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

? "OPENING SALVO FOR SUITE 418" at Jack Fisher Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

John Abduljaami, Leon Kennedy at A440 Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Bob Matthews "Garden Ruin" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7:30pm

David Hannah, William Tucker at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Bernd & Hilla Becher "A Survey: 1972-2006" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Douglass Freed, Joshua Hershman, Taliaferro Jones "IN CAMERA" at Micaela Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 234, 5-7:30pm

Gottfried Helnwein "The Murmur of the Innocents" at Modernism Gallery
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Everything for Nothing or Something" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Douglas Schneider, Kim Frohsin at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

David Young V "Neighborhood Watch" at Cafe Royale
Downtown: 800 Post Street, 8-Midnight

Elizabeth Gibbons, Georgia Nicole Lange, Klaus Lange "Hidden Dimensions" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 5:30-7:30pm

James Sansing , Jerad Walker at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Siddharth Parasnis at Hang Art (HANG ART )
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Damon Soule "Same Loud No" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Civic Center: 66 Gough Street, at Market Street, 6-9pm

+ "MFA Exhibition 2009" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 6-9pm

"SOS: STATE OF SOCIETY" curated by Joshua Tripper at Project One
Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 8pm-2am

"Shinganist" curated by usugrow at FIFTY24SF Gallery
Hayes Valley: 248 Fillmore Street, 7-9pm

+ "Home 2009" Our Annual Home Show at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5-8pm

Friday, May 8

"SOMA Artists Spring 2009 Open Studios" at SOMA Artists Studios
SOMA: 689 Bryant Street, 6-10pm

montano + milgrim + bohr "City of Refuge" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-11pm, Performance at 9pm

Blair Bradshaw, Matthew Frederick "H20" at Reaves Gallery
Civic Center: 235 Gough Street , 6-9pm

+ "Trace Elements" SFAC Group Show at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 6-8pm

Tim Sullivan "You Feel Me?" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 5:30-7:30pm

+ "Live & Direct" curated by Amanda Curreri at Ping Pong Gallery
Mission District: 1240 22nd Street, 6-9pm

+ Screening: "De Montréal: video event" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 8-10pm

"Baccalaureate Exhibition 2009" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 5:30-7pm

+ Vanessa Marsh "Always close but never touching" at Ampersand International Arts
Potrero Hill: 1001 Tennessee Street, 6-8:30pm

+ Amanda Lopez "Retratos de la Familia" at Pueblo Nuevo
Berkeley: 1828 San Pablo Avenue, 6pm-Midnight

Saturday, May 9

Open Studio: "SOMA Artists Spring 2009 Open Studios" at SOMA Artists Studios
SOMA: 689 Bryant Street, 1-5pm

Marco Maggi "Cubic Drops" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

+ Artist Talk: "Bill T. Jones In Conversation" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 2pm

Andrea Camuto "Afghanistan" at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 2-5pm

Ian Johnson at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

+ Isabel Samaras "Into The Woodz" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Dustin Olson "Fantastic in the Sack" at Shooting Gallery (Gallery Three)
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 2, Gallery Three, 7-11pm

"New Growth IV" Opening Reception & Free Family Arts Workshop at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $1-$20, 2-6pm

+ "Pencil Pushers" The Art of Graphite at GRSF (Giant Robot)
Haight Ashbury: 618 Shrader Street , 6:30-10pm

Scott MacLeod "Helter Shelter" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Philippe Janssens, Victoria Skirpa "Exoskeleton" at FLOAT Gallery
Oakland: 1091 Calcot Place, #116, 6-9pm

+ "Z-axis" at Lobot Gallery
Oakland: 1800 Campbell Street, 18th Street, 7-10pm

Matthew Scheatzle "Never / Always Post-Narrative Finds" at mg gallery
Oakland: 5532 Shattuck Avenue, 7-10pm

Benefit: "1st Annual Cupcake Bakeoff" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, $4, 2-4pm

Sunday, May 10

Open Studio: "SOMA Artists Spring 2009 Open Studios" at SOMA Artists Studios
SOMA: 689 Bryant Street, 1-5pm

+ "Rooftop Garden Opens" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Artist Talks at 2pm and 3pm

+ "A Day to Explore" at David Wilson Projects (Rodeo Cove)
Marin Headlands: , Noon-Sundown

Monday, May 11

Performance: Charles Atlas, Judith Butler, Mika Tajima/New Humans "TODAY IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, 7:30pm

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