Move over Valentine's Day, there is more going on then flowers and chocolates this week. Despite it being mid-month, the art opportunities are hot!

A few events to particularly highlight: Altman Siegel Gallery with the mysterious Trevor Paglen, a sculpture lecture titled "Uncertainty of the Expanded Field" at Southern Exposure, an interesting show at Guerrero Gallery, a feast of performances at the Headlands Art Center, Kenneth Baker moderates an artist forum for "Cream from the top", "An Important Project" at Important Projects, and not to be missed show at Sight School.

Whew... good luck!


NOTE: Artcards Review of SF's Triple Base below!

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Great new content on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Artist: Joel Kyack" by Brent Birnbaum
- "Mental States at the New Museum" by Howard Hurst
- "Thierry Dreyfus talks to Eiji Sumi" by Helen Homan Wu
- "Jay Nelson at Triple Base" by Joel Dean

Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: "Teresa Margolles in conversation with Cuauhtémoc Medina" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Eros Hoagland, James Lee, Lynsey Addario, Teru Kuwayama "Afghanistan in Four Frames" curated by Meg Shiffler at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City 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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Thursday:

+ Ferit Kuyas "City of Ambition" at Gallery 291

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+ Trevor Paglen "Unhuman" at Altman Siegel

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+ Lecture: Christopher Taggart, Deva Graf, Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, Jana Blankenship, John Roloff, Primitivo Suarez, Zachary Royer Scholz "Uncertainty of the Expanded Field" at Southern Exposure
+ Aaron Cruse, Caitlyn Galloway , Candice Obayashi, Corinne Matesich, Damon Styer, Heather Hardison, Jeff Canham, Josh Luke, Ken Davis "Genuine Authentic" Featuring works by the New Bohemia Sign Painters at Peek Gallery (The Summit Sf)

Friday:

+ Artist Talk: Ferit Kuyas "City of Ambition" at Gallery 291

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+ Allison Schulnik, Bryson Gill, Gerald Davis, Lauren Silva, Mari Eastman, Todd Lanam curated by Jacob Tillman at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

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+ Joel Dean "Damn Your Eyes" at Sight School

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Saturday:

+ Panel Discussion: Bobby Lukas, Bonnie Begusch, Brynda Glazier, Chris Fraser, Christopher Woodcock, Dana Hemenway, Hillary Wiedemann, Holly Williams, Kirk Amyx, Luke Damiani, Mara Baldwin, Monica Lundy, Nicole Crescenzi, Robert Moya, Roch, Sara Eliassen, Sune Woods, Traci Horgen, Wafaa Yasin "CREAM from the top" curated by Kathryn Weller Renfrow at Performance Art Institute

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+ Augustine Kofie, Brendan Monroe, Campen, Diana Ruiz, Geoff, Gregory Ito, Mary Iverson, Monelyess, Richard Pearse "Linear Empires" at White Walls

+ Hilary Pecis, Ryan Wallace at Guerrero Gallery

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+ Dustin Kelly "American Water" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
+ Chris Coy, Jon Rafman, Parker Ito "An Important Project" at Important Projects

Sunday:
+ Performance: Andy Vogt, Ben Venom, D-L Alvarez, David Kwan, Dena Al-Adeeb, Donald Fortescue, Jenna North, Jesse Schlesinger , Martin Machado, Masako Miki , Matthew T. Mullins, Nathan Lynch, Reggie Stump, Sama Alshaibi, Youngsuk Suh "Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature" curated by Brian Karl at Headlands Center for the Arts

Tuesday, February 8

Tama Hochbaum, Ward Schumaker at George Lawson Gallery: Room for Painting Room for Paper
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, at Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Wednesday, February 9

Anne Subercaseaux "Reflections: on Crossing" at Alliance Francaise de SF
Downtown: 1345 Bush Street, 6:30pm

+ Artist Talk: "Teresa Margolles in conversation with Cuauhtémoc Medina" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, FREE and open to the public, 7:30pm

Kristen van Diggelen, Sarah Drasner "Salon XII - Specular Guile" at Cottage Industry Painting Salon
Japantown: 2326 Fillmore Street, floor 1, 7-9pm

+ Eros Hoagland, James Lee, Lynsey Addario, Teru Kuwayama "Afghanistan in Four Frames" curated by Meg Shiffler at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, 5:30-7:30pm

Eros Hoagland, James Lee, Lynsey Addario, Teru Kuwayama "Four Embedded Photojournalists Take Aim at the War" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Ground Floor of City Hall, 5:30-7:30pm

"Shrine" at Project One
Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 7pm-2am

+ 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 week pass, 12-4:30pm

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Thursday, February 10

+ Ferit Kuyas "City of Ambition" at Gallery 291 Downtown: 291 Geary Street, floor 5, 6-9pm

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+ Trevor Paglen "Unhuman" at Altman Siegel Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 6-8pm

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

+ Lecture: Christopher Taggart, Deva Graf, Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, Jana Blankenship, John Roloff, Primitivo Suarez, Zachary Royer Scholz "Uncertainty of the Expanded Field" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

Trinh Mai "For life" at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 6:30-8:30pm

"Paperwork Grand Premier" at Mina Dresden
Mission District: 312 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

+ Aaron Cruse, Caitlyn Galloway , Candice Obayashi, Corinne Matesich, Damon Styer, Heather Hardison, Jeff Canham, Josh Luke, Ken Davis "Genuine Authentic" Featuring works by the New Bohemia Sign Painters at Peek Gallery (The Summit Sf)
Mission District: 780 Valencia Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Students grades K-8 from Berkeley Unified School D "Identity: Youth Arts Exhibition" at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, February 11

+ Artist Talk: Ferit Kuyas "City of Ambition" at Gallery 291 Downtown: 291 Geary Street, floor 5, 1pm

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+ Allison Schulnik, Bryson Gill, Gerald Davis, Lauren Silva, Mari Eastman, Todd Lanam curated by Jacob Tillman at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 5:30-8pm

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

Artist Talk: "OMCA ARTIST TALK: M. Louise Stanley" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 6:30-7:30pm

+ Joel Dean "Damn Your Eyes" at Sight School Oakland: 5651 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

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Performance: Brontez Purnell Dance Company "Brontez with Brilliant Colors" L@TE Friday Nights curated by Betty Nguyen at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $7, free for UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff and BAM/PFA members, 5-9pm (performance at 7:30pm)

"Figure & Landscape" at Firehouse Collective (Firehouse Nouth)
Berkeley: 1790 Shattuck Avenue, 7-10pm

Saturday, February 12

Julie Chang "Silk Road STYLE, Orange County Chic!" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Crystal Liu "what sparkles..." at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Vera Costa "Stained" at 5 Claude Lane
Downtown: 5 Claude Lane, floor 1, 6-9pm

William Swanson "Groundwork" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7pm

+ Panel Discussion: Bobby Lukas, Bonnie Begusch, Brynda Glazier, Chris Fraser, Christopher Woodcock, Dana Hemenway, Hillary Wiedemann, Holly Williams, Kirk Amyx, Luke Damiani, Mara Baldwin, Monica Lundy, Nicole Crescenzi, Robert Moya, Roch, Sara Eliassen, Sune Woods, Traci Horgen, Wafaa Yasin "CREAM from the top" curated by Kathryn Weller Renfrow at Performance Art Institute Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, Free, To attend the artists forum at the PAI please email Heather Smith at heather@theperformanceartinstitute.org, 3-5pm

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Denise Joy Amos, Jon Carling, Lauren Napolitano "Passed Patterns" at Space Gallery (Lopo Gallery)
Civic Center: 1141 Polk St. (enter through Space gallery) San Fr, First Floor, 7-11:30pm

Michael Page at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-10pm

Michael Page "Into Passing" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 1, free, 7-11pm

+ Augustine Kofie, Brendan Monroe, Campen, Diana Ruiz, Geoff, Gregory Ito, Mary Iverson, Monelyess, Richard Pearse "Linear Empires" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 1, free, 7-11pm

"Liminal Takes - Arte Contempaneo Latino Americano" at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-10pm

+ Hilary Pecis, Ryan Wallace at Guerrero Gallery Mission District: 2700 19th Street, 7-11pm

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+ Dustin Kelly "American Water" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 6-9pm

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

+ Chris Coy, Jon Rafman, Parker Ito "An Important Project" at Important Projects
Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, 6-9pm

Sunday, February 13

Art Fair: "Lunar New Year Celebration and Other Asian Traditions celebrate a Pan-Asian New Year!" at Oakland Museum of California Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 12-4:40pm

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+ Performance: Andy Vogt, Ben Venom, D-L Alvarez, David Kwan, Dena Al-Adeeb, Donald Fortescue, Jenna North, Jesse Schlesinger , Martin Machado, Masako Miki , Matthew T. Mullins, Nathan Lynch, Reggie Stump, Sama Alshaibi, Youngsuk Suh "Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature" curated by Brian Karl at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, 2-5pm

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