Summer fun arrives this week in the form of the First Thursday art walk on Geary Street, the last batch of new shows before galleries take a summer recess.

Tomorrow, you can check out this year's Headland Art Center Turneasol Award winner Jack Leamy's show at Luggage Store Gallery.

Stay cool!

Wednesday:
+ Panel Discussion: "In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing" curated by Art Hazelwood at Meridian Gallery

Thursday:

+ Karla Wozniak "Significant Landscapes" at Gregory Lind Gallery

view image »

Friday:

+ Elaine Buckholtz "Light Making Motion: Works on Paper and in Light" at Electric Works

view image »

+ Artist Talk: Ian McDonald "SFAI’s summer Graduate Lecture Series" at San Francisco Art Institute

Saturday:
+ Alfredo Jaar, Andrea Higgins, Anoka Faruqee, Anthony Discenza, Baseera Khan, Byron Kim, Crystal Liu, Gideon Rubin, Jim Campbell, John Andrews, John O'Reilly, Julie Chang, Liliana Porter, Marco Maggi, Michael Light, Nelleke Beltjens, Shahzia Sikander, Stefan Kürten "Time Flies" at Hosfelt Gallery
+ Workshop: "Gertrude Stein and Her Contemporaries" curated by Dickran Tashjian at Meridian Gallery
+ Jesse Thomas "Cerulean Brigade" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery

Wednesday, July 6

+ Panel Discussion: "In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing" curated by Art Hazelwood at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, Free, 7-8:30pm

Jack Leamy "Bigfoot/Littlefoot" Tournesol Exhibition in association with the Headlands Center for the Arts at Luggage Store Gallery
Civic Center: 1007 Market Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Thursday, July 7

Erin Gallup, Scott Weiser "Ruin Me" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-10pm

Book Signing: Barbara Traub "Desert to Dream: 12 years of Burning Man Photography" at The McLoughlin
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94108, Second Floor, 5-7:30pm

+ Karla Wozniak "Significant Landscapes" at Gregory Lind Gallery Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7pm

view image »

Andrea Way, Chad Buck at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Jeff Long "Birds of California, The West and Other Places" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Book Signing: Ben Tuason, Bill Sumits, Don Whitebread, Donald Kinney, Dorothy Gantenbein, Grace Seidman, Mark Wainer, Rick Saal, Tanya Lin Jaffe, Tom Schmidt "Celebrating Bay Area Photographers" at Modernbook Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Closing reception: Dennis Gallagher, Desi Santiago, J.B. Blunk, Jun Kaneko, Robb Putnam, Sam Perry, Viola Frey "Big A%# Sculpture" at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Irving Penn: RADICAL BEAUTY 1946-2007" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Mary Robertson "Summer on the River" at George Krevsky Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Daniel Goldstein, David King, David Wojnarowicz, Philip Zimmerman "A Thin Line: Extinction, Survival, Transformation" at Visual Aid
Downtown: 57 Post Street, Suite 905, 5:30-7:30pm

Carrie Seid, David Buckingham, Eileen Goldenberg, Jessica Snow, Joel Hoyer "C H R O M A : A L L A B O U T C O L O R" at Cain Schulte Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Terry St. John" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Amberlee Rosolowich "New Oil Paintings" at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

"The Whimsical, Weird and Wonderful World of DAVe Warnke" at Hang Art (HANG ART )
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Balint Zsako "Guilt & Pleasure" curated by Alexandra Ray of Five Senses Projects at Mina Dresden Gallery
Mission District: 312 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

David DiMichele "Pseudodocumentation" at Robert Koch Gallery
Bernal Heights: 0 49 Geary Street, Grant St., floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Zhitomirsky, André Kertész, Angelo (Pál Funk), Edward Quigley, Florence Henri, Foto Ada, Frantisek Drtikol, Frantisek Vobecky, Fred R. Archer, István Kerny, Jaromír Funke, Jaroslav Rossler, Jiri Lehovec, Josef Ehm, Josef Sudek, Karel Teige, Kenneth Josephson, Lotte Jacobi, Philippe Halsman, Ruth Bernhard, Tibor Csörgeö at Robert Koch Gallery
Bernal Heights: 0 49 Geary Street, Grant St., floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

"Outlandish" at Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek) East Bay: 1601 Civic Drive, floor 1, 6-8pm

view image »

Friday, July 8

+ Elaine Buckholtz "Light Making Motion: Works on Paper and in Light" at Electric Works SOMA: 130 8th Street, 6-8pm

view image »

"Arc Studio Artists Group Exhibition" at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 7-10pm

Beth Goolsby at Jellyfish Gallery
SOMA: 1286 Folsom Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

+ Artist Talk: Ian McDonald "SFAI’s summer Graduate Lecture Series" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 6:30pm

Closing reception: Anastasia Faiella, Chris Pew "Mark-Making" at 60SIX Mission District: 66 Elgin Park, floor 1, 6-9pm

view image »

Shawn Barber "Youth of Today" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 248 Fillmore Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Ian Johnson, Sadie Barnette "Last Time It Was Gray" at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, 6-10pm

Nathan Cordero "Are You Destined to Become your Mother?" at Nelson Gallery at UC Davis (Nelson Hall)
Davis: 1 Shields Avenue, floor 1, 5-8pm

Saturday, July 9

Mary Anne Kluth "Visitor Center" at Frey Norris Gallery
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 4-7pm

+ Alfredo Jaar, Andrea Higgins, Anoka Faruqee, Anthony Discenza, Baseera Khan, Byron Kim, Crystal Liu, Gideon Rubin, Jim Campbell, John Andrews, John O'Reilly, Julie Chang, Liliana Porter, Marco Maggi, Michael Light, Nelleke Beltjens, Shahzia Sikander, Stefan Kürten "Time Flies" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Scott Yeskel "Mapping California: Abstract And Representational Landscapes" at Jack Fischer Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 3-5pm

+ Workshop: "Gertrude Stein and Her Contemporaries" curated by Dickran Tashjian at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, $10-$20 sliding scale, 3:30-5:30pm

"Mud/Marriage & Magic : 3rd annual ceramics exhibit" at Market Street Gallery
Civic Center: 1554 Market Street, 6-8pm

? Anthony Sneed "Grand Illusion" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? D Young V (David Young) "Make An Effort" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 1, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Anne Klint, Bethany Carlson, Brandon Ballengee, Dana Harel, Deborah Simon, Donald Farnsworth, Jeremiah Barber, Joianne Bittle, Jon Rappleye, Ka, Karl Cronin, Maria Lux, Michael Kerbow, Nicole Jean Hill, Sarah A. Smith, Shelley Reed, Steven Rubin, Susan Silas, Todd Forsgren "A Live Animal" curated by Christopher Reiger, Selene Foster at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, Free (Suggested Donation), 7-10pm

+ Jesse Thomas "Cerulean Brigade" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 7-10pm

Jody Medich, Kerry Vander Meer, Paul Mueller "Mercury Rising" curated by JoAnn Biagini, Julianne Wallace Sterling, Kathleen King at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, 6-9pm

Artcards San Francisco is a weekly email publication led by editor Emma Spertus. Email event submissions to sfinfo@artcards.cc or use our submission form. New: you can now add an image to your listing by using the submission form.

+ = Editor's pick
? = Opening not confirmed - check site for updates.