Choose your own adventure, this weekend: Art Fairs (SF Fine Art Fair, ArtPadsf, and artMRKT), MFA Thesis Shows (UC Berkeley and Stanford), a more mellow Oakland Art Murmur (Murmurama), or other fun stuff (Southern Exposure, ATA, SF Dump Artist in Residence Exhibition).

Artcards Review will be covering the SF Art Fairs, so check-in starting Thursday night for the play by play!
 
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Artcards San Francisco's VIP Pass Give-A-Away for artMRKT wraps up! To enter: email emma@artcards.cc your favorite gallery, your name, and your address (and if you would prefer to have me put at will call). One pass-per-person will be sent to your house while supplies last!

Favorite galleries form last week's VIP Pass winners:
Vikovsky Fine Art
Shooting Gallery
Catherine Clark Gallery

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New on Artcards Review:
- "Anthony Caro on the Roof" by Gabriella Radujko
- "Greater LA in NY" by Helen Homan Wu

Wednesday:

+ Angela Simione, Charmaine Olivia, Chelsea Brown, Megan Wolfe "May Fairs" curated by Angela Holmes, Sam Snowden at Project One

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Friday:

+ Mark Fox and Justin Quinn at Cain Schulte Gallery

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+ "The Cries of San Francisco" curated by Courtney Fink at Southern Exposure
+ Benefit: "Benefit for Dara Greenwald" at A.T.A.
+ Anthony Ryan, Dana Hemenway "Metric" curated by Jessica Brier at Park Life

+ Alex Nichols, Niki Ulehla, Scott Kildall "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )

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+ Chris E. Vargas, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, Corinna Nicole Brewer, David Wallace, Merav Tzur, Narangkar Glover, Plinio Alberto Hernandez "Inarguably Uncertain" 41st Annual UC Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum

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Saturday:

+ Alex Nichols, Niki Ulehla, Scott Kildall "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )

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+ Boo Chapple, Dorian Katz, Jacqueline Gordon, Jerome Reyes, Sanaz Mazinani "Scramble" at Stanford Art Gallery (Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery )

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+ Malak Helmy, Naaman Rosen, Teresa Cunniff "Circumscribing the Liminal" at Krowswork

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Wednesday, May 18

+ Angela Simione, Charmaine Olivia, Chelsea Brown, Megan Wolfe "May Fairs" curated by Angela Holmes, Sam Snowden at Project One Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, Free, 7pm-late

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Thursday, May 19

Preview: "artMRKT" at Concourse Exhibition Center
SOMA: 620 Brannan Street, floor 1, see website, 7:30-10pm

"Art of Howl" at Cartoon Art Museum
SOMA: 655 Mission Street, Free, 7-9pm

Zheng Chongbin "White Ink" at Chinese Cultural Center
Downtown: 750 Kearny Street, floor 3, free, 5:30-7:30pm

Benefit: "ArtPad SF" A Benefit for the Black Rock Arts Foundation at Phoenix Hotel
Tenderloin: 601 Eddy St., $50 to $125, 7-12am

Screening: BC Sterrett of The Lost Media Archive "MUTATED: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ripoffs and the Direct Market" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

David Broom, David Middlebrook, Jan Wurm, Naomie Kremer, Ray Beldner, Reuven Itelman, Sandra Ortiz Taylor, Tessie Barrera-Scharaga, Theodora Varnay Jones "The Seduction of Duchamp Installation" curated by Hanna Regev, Steven Lopez at ArtZone 461 Gallery
Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, @ San Francisco Fine Art Fair, see website, 8pm

Performance: "Nobody Move" Based on a Book by Denis Johnson at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, , 8-10:30pm

Preview: "SF Fine Arts Fair" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, 5:30-9:30pm

Friday, May 20

Art Fair: "artMRKT" at Concourse Exhibition Center
SOMA: 620 Brannan Street, floor 1, see website, 11am-7pm

+ Mark Fox and Justin Quinn at Cain Schulte Gallery Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

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Nick Cope "HAPPY Is Forever" at Performance Art Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, free, 6-9pm

Art Fair: "ArtPadSF" at Phoenix Hotel
Tenderloin: 601 Eddy St., $10, 12-9pm

+ "The Cries of San Francisco" curated by Courtney Fink at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-10pm

+ Benefit: "Benefit for Dara Greenwald" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6-10, 8pm

+ Anthony Ryan, Dana Hemenway "Metric" curated by Jessica Brier at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, 6-9pm

Art Fair: "SF Fine Arts Fair" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, 12-8pm

+ Alex Nichols, Niki Ulehla, Scott Kildall "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio ) South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, 5-9pm

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+ Chris E. Vargas, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, Corinna Nicole Brewer, David Wallace, Merav Tzur, Narangkar Glover, Plinio Alberto Hernandez "Inarguably Uncertain" 41st Annual UC Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

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Saturday, May 21

Art Fair: "artMRKT" at Concourse Exhibition Center
SOMA: 620 Brannan Street, floor 1, see website, 11am-7pm

Emil Lukas "in, on, un" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, b/w Howard & Folsom, $, 4-6pm

Ben McLaughlin "A List of Destinations" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Art Fair: "ArtPadSF" at Phoenix Hotel
Tenderloin: 601 Eddy St., $10, 12-9pm

Art Fair: "SF Fine Arts Fair" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, see website, 11am-7pm

+ Alex Nichols, Niki Ulehla, Scott Kildall "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio ) South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, 1-5pm

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+ Boo Chapple, Dorian Katz, Jacqueline Gordon, Jerome Reyes, Sanaz Mazinani "Scramble" at Stanford Art Gallery (Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery ) Palo Alto: Lasuen Mall 419 , 4-7pm

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+ Malak Helmy, Naaman Rosen, Teresa Cunniff "Circumscribing the Liminal" at Krowswork Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 7-10pm

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Tour: "Murmurama" Participating galleries include Buzz Gallery, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Hatch Gallery, Johansson Projects, Krowswork, Mercury 20 Gallery, PHOTO, Studio Quercus and Vessel Gallery. at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 7-10pm

Kanna Aoki at LightRoom Gallery
Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 2-5pm

Sunday, May 22

Art Fair: "artMRKT" at Concourse Exhibition Center
SOMA: 620 Brannan Street, floor 1, see website, 11am-6pm

Art Fair: "ArtPadSF" at Phoenix Hotel
Tenderloin: 601 Eddy St., $10, 11am-6pm

Art Fair: "SF Fine Arts Fair" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, see website, 11am-6pm

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