Artcards San Francisco Weekly Update

Oakland Art Ride (on bicycles), Artcards teams up with artMRKT for a VIP ticket give away, big SF and Oakland opening art walks (First Thursday in SF and First Friday in Oakland), and more....

Tomorrow (Wednesday) catch J.B. Blunk Residency Benefit at Triple Base. Thursday, after roaming the downtown galleries you can easily check out Museum of Craft and and Folk Art's Craft Bar: Corita Mashup or head to the Berkley Art Museum for Artforward a panel discussion looking at art education and the museum. On Friday, The Lab has a new show opening with an intriguingly similar title to Sight School's show that opens on Saturday. To cap the week in style, swing by the innovative benefit TELE-FRIEND-A-THON 4 Important Projects! at Important Projects.

To enter Artcards San Francisco's VIP Pass Give-A-Away for artMRKT, i.e. a free ticket to one of the hot new art fairs heading to the Bay at the end of the month: email emma@artcards.cc your favorite gallery, your name, and your address. One pass-per-person while supplies last!

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New on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Artist: Chelsea Knight" by Howard Hurst
- The Making of "Dark Sisters"
- "Ai Wei Wei on the Global Radar"

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Wednesday, May 4

Barbara Kronlins, Gary Nisbet, Kaori Takamura, Mary Ijichi "Glue" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Beatrice Pediconi, Benjamin Britton, Jay Nelson, Jenna Didier/Oliver Hess, Rachel Kaye "The Lucid Art Foundation Benefit Show for the J.B. Blunk Residency" at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, Free, 7-10pm

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Preview: "18th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale" at SF MOMA (SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason)
Marina District: 0 Fort Mason Center, $10 at the door;, 6-9pm

Thursday, May 5

"A Place of Her Own" Works by Asian American Women Artists at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, Free, 6-9pm

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Jhina Alvarado, Rockford Orvin, Sergio Navaro Duran, Tim Schafer "Presence of Absence" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, Free, 5-7pm

Screening: Manoel de Oliveira "The Strange Case of Angelica" On Glorious 35mm Film at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8, 7:30pm

Mayumi Tanaka "Unhealthy" at Kokoro Studio
Downtown: 682 Geary street SF, CA 94102, First Floor, Free, 5-7pm

Doug Rickard "A New American Picture" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

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Tony Berlant at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Christian Maychack "Uncertain Spaces" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, Free, 5-7pm

Lisa Bartelson, Tom DeGroot at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

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Marci Washington "Forever I'll Be Here" at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Luis Aguilera "New Drawings" at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Paul Kos "Selected Works: 1969-2011" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Richard Learoyd "Presences" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Jacques Villegle "Décollages from the 1960s to 1990s" at Modernism Gallery
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Tim Armstrong "Drawings For The Dear Public Documents & Residues" at Canessa Gallery
Downtown: 708 Montgomery Street, Free, 6-9pm

Adam Parker Smith "Crush" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, Free, 6-10pm

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Chiyomi Taneike Longo "Symphonic Nature" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, Free, 5-7:30pm

Suhas Bhujbal "Pune to San Francisco" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Location, Location, Location" Group Show at Hang Art
Downtown: 556 Sutter Street, Free, 6-8pm

The Autumn Society "The 3B Show" curated by Chogrin at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, Free, 7-10pm

Greg Miller "Recent Paintings" at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Jason Wheatley "ZooTopia" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

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"CELL:15 - SpaceCRAFT" CELLspace's Week-Long 15th Birthday Celebration at CELLspace
Mission District: 2050 Bryant Street, 7-9pm

Henry Gunderson "Solo Show" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 248 Fillmore Street, floor 1, Free, 7-10pm

Alex Maclean "The American Landscape at the Tipping Point" at Robert Koch Gallery
Bernal Heights: 0 49 Geary Street, Grant St., floor 5, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Panel Discussion: "Artforward" The Future of Art Museums in Education, Presented by the BAM/PFA Student Committee at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Free, 5-8pm

Friday, May 6

Romare Bearden "From Process to Print" at Museum of the African Diaspora
SOMA: 685 Mission Street, floor 1, Free, 7:30pm

E. G. Jimenez, Ethel Jimenez, Mary Ann Kratz "Gallery 28 First Friday Reception" at Gallery 28
North Beach: 1228 Grant Avenue, Free, 6-9pm

Dean Larson "Recent Paintings" at John Pence Gallery
Downtown: 750 Post Street, Free, 6-8pm

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+ Benjamin Meyer, Bradley Hyppa, Seth Curcio "Pursuing a Calculated Distance" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 7-10pm

Pip Culbert "Undercover" at Fouladi Projects
Mission District: 1 Otis Street, Upstairs from Enterprise car rental, floor 2, Free, 6-8:30pm

Performance: "Video Soup" presented by SFSU (Conceptual Information Arts) at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Sandra Yagi, Scott Greenwalt, Travis Kerkela "Spectacular Beasts" at INCLINE
Mission District: 766 Valencia Street, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

+ Book launch: Clare Rojas "Everything Flowers" at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, Free, 6-8pm

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Jeremiah Jenkins "A Very Prophetable Time" at Hatch Gallery
Oakland: 492 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 6-10pm

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Dave Meeker, Kathleen King, Laura van Duren "The Gyre" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

Charlie Milgrim "On the Precipice" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

Homer Flynn at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

Anne Subercaseaux., Carol Lefkowitz, David Aipperspach, Joanne Fox, Lisa Fernald Barker "Intermission: Five Bay Area Painters" at Slate Gallery
Oakland: 4770 Telegraph Avenue, at 48th Street, Free, 6-9pm

Saturday, May 7

Zhong Biao "Reflected on Air" at Frey Norris Gallery
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 4-7pm

Anne Shulenberger, April Hankins, Barbara Lambert, C J Grossman, Carol Witten, Carolyn Zaroff, Claudia Chapline, Cosette Dudley, Denise Guimares e S. Vejby, Elise Cheval, Gale McKee, Gretchen Blais, Helen Poole Newman, Jain Hutzell, Jennifer Ewing, Joanna Katz, Joanne Yeaton, Judy Shintani, Karen Gutfreund, Katherine Kodama, Kelly Hammargrren, Leslie Morgan, Lorraine Bonner, Marsha Connell, MC Carolyn, Mel Ahlborn, Miriam Fabbri, Nancy Worthington, Nora Raggio, Patricia Martini, Priscilla Otani , Sally Ruddy, Salma Arastu, Sarah Beth Goncarova, Shizue Seigel, Simin Meykadeh, Susan Kraft, Susan Liroff, Tanya Wilkinson, Tracey Kessler, Vera Ximenes, Yuriko Takata "A Sense of Place" at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, Free, 6-9pm

Screening: Manoel de Oliveira "The Strange Case of Angelica" On Glorious 35mm Film at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8, 7:30pm

Olly Moss at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, Free, 7-10pm

Tomoko Maruyama "Spring of Happiness" at Market Street Gallery
Civic Center: 1554 Market Street, Free, 6-8pm

Aaron Nagel at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-10pm

Auction: "Mega Mega Mega" Annual Fundraiser and Art Auction at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , $35 in advance, $45 at the door, 7:30-10:30pm

+ Robert Minervini "Sunken Dreams" curated by Jillian Mackintosh at Gallery Hijinks
Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, free, 6-10pm

Eileen Downey, Jim Gorman, Peg Conley, Shaun Johnson, Tisha Kenny "Watercolors in Bloom" at Back to the Picture
Mission District: 934 Valencia Street, at 20th Street, Free, 7-9pm

NICHOLAS COLEY "Baby Needs New Shoes" curated by Steven Lopez at ArtZone 461 Gallery
Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, 5-8 pm

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+ Paul Pagk "Drawings from the Series: The Mesquite Drawings" curated by Chris Ashley at Some Walls
Oakland: 4660 Dolores Avenue, floor 1, 2-5pm

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+ Matt Kennedy "A Measurement Of The Distance" at Sight School
Oakland: 5651 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

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Tour: "Oakland Art Ride" curated by 1130 Adeline, A Place for Sustainable Living, Actual Cafe, American Steel Studios, Create in Clay, East Bay Bike Party, Red Bike & Green, Ride SFO, San Pablo Arts District, The Compound Gallery at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, FREE, 12-11pm

Sunday, May 8

Screening: Manoel de Oliveira "The Strange Case of Angelica" On Glorious 35mm Film at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8, 2pm