This month marks Artcards San Francisco's Second Anniversary of bringing you comprehensive Editor compiled Weekly Updates on all art openings, lectures, and performances happening in the Bay Area!

As we begin our third year, I am excited about many developments in the works including: enhanced online Artcards.cc capabilities, local Artcards sponsored events (like Artcards Artwalks), and continuing critical local and national coverage on Artcards Reveiw.

Today we have a special contest with this week's Artcards Sponsor: CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium.

Four lucky subscribers will win tickets to The CODEX Book Fair, which runs February 6-9th at UC Berkeley's Pauley Ballroom, and offers visitors an array of contemporary book art delights. We will randomly draw four people from the pool of email responses.

To enter send an email to: sfcodexcontest@artcards.cc

Also, check out SF First Thursday and Oakland's First Friday this week. And, a special plug for Bay Area Girl's Rock Camp's Annual Benefit Art Auction and Concert happening this Friday at the Humanist Hall in Oakland.

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See you out there!


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New on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Artist: Martha Cooper" by Carissa Pelleteri
- "VIP Art Fair: A Few Highlights"

Tuesday:
+ Book launch: Amy Francheschini, Blair Randall, Brooke Budner, Chris Carlsson, Ignacio Valero, Marina McDougall, Michael Swaine "Free Soil" at Studio for Urban Projects
+ "Amy Ho: Bridge" at A.T.A.

Thursday:
+ Richard Baker, Tom Burckhardt at Gregory Lind Gallery
+ Amparo Sard, Bovey Lee, Claire Jackel , Gregory Euclide, Julia Goodman, Kathleen Henderson, Paul Hayes, Peter Callesen, Vik Muniz "Pure Paper" curated by Aimee Reed at Rena Bransten Gallery
+ Preview: "Three Artists: Julie Mehretu, Wayne Gonzales, and Julian Lethbridge" at John Berggruen Gallery
+ Reading: Ariel Goldberg, Brian Dettmer, Claudia Goulette, Cody Hoyt, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Jeremy Bert, Jessica Rankin, Samantha Boudrot, Tim Etchells "T_XT_RT" curated by Courtney Johnson at Jenkins Johnson Gallery

Friday:
+ "Fun-a-Day" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
+ Alex Case, Dan Grayber "Humming Summit" at Johansson Projects
+ Anna Halprin, Siobhan Davies, the Swaggers, Yvonne Rainer "Taking Up Room On The Floor" curated by Dena Beard , Hannah Ireland, Jeriel Bey at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Saturday:
+ Camille Seaman "The Last Iceberg" at Corden Potts Gallery
+ Performance: Ariel Goldberg, Brian Dettmer, Claudia Goulette, Cody Hoyt, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Jeremy Bert, Jessica Rankin, Samantha Boudrot, Tim Etchells "T_XT_RT" curated by Courtney Johnson at Jenkins Johnson Gallery

Sunday:
+ Workshop: "Tax Time for Artists: A workshop with the California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA)" at Southern Exposure
+ Screening: "Reagan’s 100th Birthday Party" at A.T.A.

+ Art Fair: "3rd biennial CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium" at UC Berkeley (Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Student Union)

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Monday:
+ Artist Talk: Jose Alvarez "Surfaces of Constant Simultaneity" at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)

+ Art Fair: "3rd biennial CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium" at UC Berkeley (Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Student Union)

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Tuesday, February 1

+ Book launch: Amy Francheschini, Blair Randall, Brooke Budner, Chris Carlsson, Ignacio Valero, Marina McDougall, Michael Swaine "Free Soil" at Studio for Urban Projects
Mission District: 3579 17th Street, Space is limited. Please RSVP to rsvp@studioforurbanprojects.org Suggested donation $5-$15, 7pm

+ "Amy Ho: Bridge" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, Window Gallery, 7-10pm

Wednesday, February 2

Vera Costa "Stained" at 5 Claude Lane
Downtown: 5 Claude Lane, floor 1, First Thursday, 6-8pm

Anne Appleby, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Dong Phan, Sunnyo Lee at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Thursday, February 3

Lecture: "A Johnny Mathis Homecoming" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $15, 7-8:30pm

Eva Bovenzi, Gregg Renfrow, Jeff Long, Jerrold Burchman, Joe Thurston, Lyndi Sales, Maria Park, Marilyn Levin, Mark Evans, Mark Paron, Monika Lin, Robert Donald, Roni Feldman, Stephanie Weber, Ursula O'Farrell, William Edwards "Red" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Book launch: Marco Casentini "TALKING" Talking is a conversation between Marco Casentini and the art critic Leonardo Conti at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Richard Baker, Tom Burckhardt at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Amparo Sard, Bovey Lee, Claire Jackel , Gregory Euclide, Julia Goodman, Kathleen Henderson, Paul Hayes, Peter Callesen, Vik Muniz "Pure Paper" curated by Aimee Reed at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Preview: "Three Artists: Julie Mehretu, Wayne Gonzales, and Julian Lethbridge" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Katina Huston "Big Noise" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Kevin Moore at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

David Lippenberger "Gridlock" at Hang Art
Downtown: 556 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

+ Reading: Ariel Goldberg, Brian Dettmer, Claudia Goulette, Cody Hoyt, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Jeremy Bert, Jessica Rankin, Samantha Boudrot, Tim Etchells "T_XT_RT" curated by Courtney Johnson at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 6pm

Patricia Thomas "Two Worlds" at Slate Gallery
Oakland: 4770 Telegraph Avenue, at 48th Street, 6-8pm

Friday, February 4

"Aesthetic Anarchy" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-11pm

Esperanza Santos, Ethel Jimenez, Mary Ann Kratz "First Friday in North Beach" Live entertainment by Tara De Moulin at Gallery 28
North Beach: 1228 Grant Avenue, Free, 6-9pm

Julie Jaycox "Nature's Geometry The Beauty in the Details" at Canessa Gallery
Downtown: 708 Montgomery Street, Free, 5-9pm

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

Art Fair: "Arts of Pacific Asia Show" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, Festival Pavillion, $15, 11am-7pm

Lily Black "Art sucks, I quit." at Kuhl Frames +Art
Oakland: 412 22nd Street, 6-9pm

Dianne Romaine, Sabine Reckewell at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Hannah Keefe, Pamela Merory Dernham, Rebecca Deans "Body Language" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Joan Weiss: Deep Roots, Peter Honig: The Fabric of Night, True Paint: Eric Bohr, Maya Kabat and Jill McLenna at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 6-9pm

Patricia Thomas "TWO WORLDS" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate Gallery
Oakland: 4770 Telegraph Avenue, at 48th Street, 6-8pm

+ "Fun-a-Day" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

+ Alex Case, Dan Grayber "Humming Summit" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

+ Anna Halprin, Siobhan Davies, the Swaggers, Yvonne Rainer "Taking Up Room On The Floor" curated by Dena Beard , Hannah Ireland, Jeriel Bey at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 7-10pm

Performance: "L@te Friday" Paul Dresher with Joel Davel at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $7, 5-9pm (performance at 7:30pm)

Saturday, February 5

"The Guerrilla Show: Join the Revolution" Bay Area Juried Exhibition & Off-The-Wall Sale at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 6-10pm

+ Camille Seaman "The Last Iceberg" at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 2-5pm

Deva Graf at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

+ Performance: Ariel Goldberg, Brian Dettmer, Claudia Goulette, Cody Hoyt, Glenn Ligon, Jack Pierson, Jeremy Bert, Jessica Rankin, Samantha Boudrot, Tim Etchells "T_XT_RT" curated by Courtney Johnson at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 12-5pm

Workshop: "Isn't It Obvious? Family Day at SFAC Gallery: A Day of Building Art with Everyday Stuff" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 12-3pm

Sebastian Wahl "Kaleidoscope Eyes" at Gallery Hijinks
Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, FREE, 6-10pm

"A Sense of Place" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 5-7pm

Annie Galvin "49 Reasons Why I Love You" at Zinc Details
Western Addition: 2410 California Street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "The Art Of Living Black" 15th Anniversary Exhibition at Richmond Art Center
Richmond District: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 12-2pm

"The Art Of Living Black" 15th Anniversary Exhibition at Richmond Art Center
Richmond District: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 3-5pm

Adam Hartman, Amir Esfahani, Anthony Record, Ben Venom, Carrie Hott, David Horton, Jeremiah Jenkins, Julumarie Joy Cornista, Kristen Roberts, Matt Cella, Mike Decker, Neils Neilson III, Niki Shapiro, Renetta Sitoy, Robert Burden, Ross Campbell , Tom Mueske "Wasteland" curated by Matt Cella at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Sunday, February 6

+ Workshop: "Tax Time for Artists: A workshop with the California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA)" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , Admission: $30 for CLA or SoEx members*/ $40 for non-members/ $20 students/seniors. *SoEx Members: Contact assocdirector@soex.org or 415-863-2141 for the special rate code. Registration required. To register: Go to the events section of the CLA website, 1-5pm

+ Screening: "Reagan’s 100th Birthday Party" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 7:30pm

+ Art Fair: "3rd biennial CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium" at UC Berkeley (Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Student Union) Berkeley: on campus at Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way, floor 1, $10 for one day/$20 for weekend pass, 12-4pm

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Monday, February 7

+ Artist Talk: Jose Alvarez "Surfaces of Constant Simultaneity" at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Berkeley: Near Hearst Street, 3rd Floor , 7:30-9pm

+ Art Fair: "3rd biennial CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium" at UC Berkeley (Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Student Union) Berkeley: on campus at Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way, floor 1, $10 for one day/$20 for weekend pass, 12:30-6:30pm

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