Lots of quality shows this week. Eva Hesse at Berkeley Art Museum, a Sister Corita Kent inspired show at Creative Growth, and performance nights at Sight School and Southern Exposure.

AND:
I am happy to announce the inaugural Artcards Artwalk talking place for two hours in the Downtown gallery neighborhood. Participants will take a guided tour of the most interesting shows currently up in this area, including several shows that will be closing this weekend. The Artcards Artwalk will be a continuing series hosted by the SF Artcards editors.

Artcards Artwalk
Saturday, January 29 from 1-3pm
Meeting at Gallery Paula Anglim (14 Geary Street, upstairs)
Leaving the gallery promptly at 1:15pm.

RSVP: suggested but not required, emailed to emma@artcards.cc.

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Wednesday:
+ Lecture: "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at Berkeley Art Museum
+ "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at Berkeley Art Museum

Thursday:

+ "ONLY MAKE: Limited edition prints + handmade rugs" at Creative Growth

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Saturday:

+ Closing reception: Chris Russell, Ether Staircase, James Seevers, Michael Louis Young "The Wandering Flood Moves Through Us" at Fivepoints Arthouse

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+ Performance: Cecilio Cooper, Cedric Brown, Ignacio Valero, Jaime Cortez, Joel Tan, Malcolm Drake, Tisa Bryant "Truth Be Told, A Night of Performance Curated by Jaime Cortez" curated by Jaime Cortez at Southern Exposure
+ Benefit: "ATA Art Auction & FUNraiser" at A.T.A.

+ Performance: "Tears Club, Chen Santa Maria & Dubknowdub" at Sight School

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+ Closing reception: Troy Bayless "In disguise" at Forthrite

Sunday:
+ Artist Talk: Adam Hathaway, Casey Logan "[You] Illusion [Were] Translation [Thinking] And [This] Reality" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Wednesday, January 26

+ Lecture: "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 6:30pm

+ "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 5:30-7:30pm

Amy Rathbone, Brett Walker, Frank Marquez-Leonard, Jennie Smith, Kari Marboe, Kari Orvik, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck "2011 First Year MFA Exhibition" at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: Kroeber Hall, 4-7pm

Thursday, January 27

+ "ONLY MAKE: Limited edition prints + handmade rugs" at Creative Growth Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5-8pm

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Friday, January 28

Preview: "Perceptions" 788 Arguello at Misho Gallery
SOMA: 680 8th street, Suite 230, 4-6pm

"It's All a Blur" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6-8pm

Performance: "Memorandum of Understanding: Your Butt is Covered" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 7:30pm

"A Winter Group Exhibition" curated by Ryan Martin at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 5-7pm

Closing reception: Kevin E. Taylor "Dislocated" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 7-10pm

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Saturday, January 29

"Perceptions" 788 Arguello at Misho Gallery
SOMA: 680 8th street, Suite 230, 1-4pm

Cork Marcheschi "Cabinet of Curiosities" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 3-5pm

Christopher Taggart "Away" at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-7pm

+ Closing reception: Chris Russell, Ether Staircase, James Seevers, Michael Louis Young "The Wandering Flood Moves Through Us" at Fivepoints Arthouse SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 6-9pm

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Performance: "Memorandum of Understanding: Your Butt is Covered" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 7:30pm

+ Performance: Cecilio Cooper, Cedric Brown, Ignacio Valero, Jaime Cortez, Joel Tan, Malcolm Drake, Tisa Bryant "Truth Be Told, A Night of Performance Curated by Jaime Cortez" curated by Jaime Cortez at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

+ Benefit: "ATA Art Auction & FUNraiser" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6-$10, 5:30pm

Renee Billingslea "Identity: In Formation" 2004 ??" 2010 Photographs at Paul Mahder Gallery
Richmond District: 3378 Sacramento Street, 6-9pm

Karen Seneferu, Ron Moultrie Saunders "Passage" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 5-8pm

Alex Rosmarin, Alison O.K. Frost, Alissa Goss, Ben Belknap, Clare Szydlowski, Crystal Morey, Giles Goodhead, Jeanne Lorenz, Kelsey Robinson, Kerri Lee Johnson , Lena Verderano Reynoso, Martin Webb, Masako Miki , Matt Reynoso, Patricia Gillespie, Renee Johnson, Ryan McJunkin, Tallulah Terryll "OUTSIDE THE BOX: Featuring Art in a Box Artists" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 7-11pm

+ Performance: "Tears Club, Chen Santa Maria & Dubknowdub" at Sight School Oakland: 5651 San Pablo Avenue, 8-11pm

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+ Closing reception: Troy Bayless "In disguise" at Forthrite
Oakland: 5857 San Pablo Avenue, 6-9pm

Sunday, January 30

+ Artist Talk: Adam Hathaway, Casey Logan "[You] Illusion [Were] Translation [Thinking] And [This] Reality" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 1-4pm

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