There are some mid-month art specials this week!

For starters, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) and the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University (SFSU) team up for a contemporary Mexican art show, a Kyle Fields and Thomas Campbell show opens at Park Life, and if that isn't hot enough Triple Base, Electric Works and Jancar Jones have Friday night openings.

If you are in the East Bay, I have heard mention of zombie cake in connection with the HalfLifer's DVD release party at the Berkeley Art Museum's semi-regular Friday L@TE showcase.

See you out there!
 

NOTE: Berkeley Art Museum's Eve Hesse show reviewed below.

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New on Artcards Review:
- "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" by Helen Homan Wu
- "Major Jackson's Holding Company" by Gabriella Radujko
- "Featured Artist: Joel Kyack" by Brent Birnbaum

Wednesday:
+ Workshop: "Art in Storefronts returns to Central Market (The ARTery Project)" Application workshop at Luggage Store Gallery
+ Carlos Amorales, Miguel Calderón, Tania Candiani, ToroLab "DF < SF < TJ" curated by Julio Cesar Morales, Maurizzio Hector Pineda at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Thursday:

+ Kyle Field, Thomas Campbell "Space Cake" at Park Life

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Friday:

+ "Orion Shepherd" at Jancar Jones Gallery

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+ Anthony Discenza, Torsten Zenas Burns "Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party" Radical L@TE curated by Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid at Berkeley Art Museum

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Wednesday, February 16

"Bitter is Better?" A celebration of bitter melon at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 7-9pm

+ Workshop: "Art in Storefronts returns to Central Market (The ARTery Project)" Application workshop at Luggage Store Gallery
Civic Center: 1007 Market Street, floor 2, 6pm

+ Carlos Amorales, Miguel Calderón, Tania Candiani, ToroLab "DF < SF < TJ" curated by Julio Cesar Morales, Maurizzio Hector Pineda at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, $5, 6:30-9:30pm

Melissa Hutton "Heartland" Personal Tales of an American Landscape curated by Marisa McCarthy at Heart
Mission District: 1270 Valencia St, 7-10pm

Thursday, February 17

Zheng Chongbin " Obtrusive / Elusive" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Christopher Black "Unvarnished" at Wire & Nail
Mission District: 3150 18th Street, suite 104, 5-8pm

Benefit: Trinh Mai "For life" at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, $75 (To Benefit for Angkor Hospital for Children), 6-9pm

Carl Sturgess, Dana Shaw, Joe Lindsay, Nico van den Berg, Paul Hoek "The Rich. Kids" Neighborhood Films and Photographs at Y2Y Gallery
Richmond District: 251 Balboa Street, 6-8pm

+ Kyle Field, Thomas Campbell "Space Cake" at Park Life Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, 7-10pm

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Friday, February 18

Candace Plummer Gaudiani "Proscenium" at Electric Works
SOMA: 130 8th Street, 6-8pm

Kosuke Kawamura "Tokyo Pop !!" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7pm

"Size Matters" at John Pence Gallery
Downtown: 750 Post Street, 6-8pm

Chechu Alava "The Romanov" at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, Backroom, 7-10pm

Alexander Kori Girard "Axis Mundi" at Triple Base Gallery Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

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+ "Orion Shepherd" at Jancar Jones Gallery Mission District: 965 Mission Street, Suite 120, 6-9pm

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"A Night of Picture and Song With Jordan Reznick & Zoë Sundra" at The Spare Room Project
Bernal Heights: 270 Anderson Street, 7-10pm

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

+ Anthony Discenza, Torsten Zenas Burns "Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party" Radical L@TE curated by Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid at Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 5-9pm (performance at 7:30pm)

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Saturday, February 19

Nancy Peach "The BDSM World in Oils" at Jellyfish Gallery
SOMA: 1286 Folsom Street, floor 1, 9pm-12am

Dennis Tedlock, Richard Berger "The Prosthetic Temple and An Archaeology of Architecture" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 6-9pm

Closing reception: "SAY SOMETHING!" Bay Area Art / Performance / Multimedia at Robert Berman / E6 Gallery
Civic Center: 1632 Market Street, Suite B, 7-10pm

Sunday, February 20

Karen Thomas "From the Beast to the Blonde" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 2-5pm

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