July shines this week, if only in spirit, with more great events then you can shake a stick at. Sean McFarland talks about his work in the Bay Area Now 6 (BAN 6) show at the YBCA. Headlands Center for the Art residents compose music for the Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theater. The LA and SF straddling gallery, Maniac, has an opening for "Tropics" on Saturday.

Have fun!

New on Artcards Review:
- "Mia Taylor at Toomer Labzda" by Howard Hurst

Thursday:
+ Artist Talk: "BAN6 Artist Series" Sean McFarland at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ "TEXTile" at Creative Growth
+ Frances Young, Genevieve Quick, Maude Léonard-Contant, Youngsuk Suh "Residency Projects I" at Kala Art Institute

Friday:

+ Jered Sprecher, Wayne Smith at Gallery 16

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+ Artist Talk: Barbara DeGenevieve "SFAI’s summer Graduate Lecture Series" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Terry Berlier "Open Secret" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
+ Hadley Williams, Tallulah Terryl "Surface: Pattern :: Pattern: Surface" curated by Peter Hayes at Local 123

Saturday:
+ "The Tropics" at Maniac Gallery
+ Performance: Matti Bye Ensemble "New Sounds for Silent Film" The Blizzard at Headlands Center for the Arts (Castro Theatre)

Sunday:
+ Christine Wong Yap, Davis Robbins, Guy Debord, James Hayward, Matt Borruso, Nicholas Knight, Nina Zurier, Whitney Lynn "Negative Space" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
+ Closing reception: Alison OK Frost, Andreina Davila, Annie Frykholm, Crystal Morey, David Spiher, Eric Sanchez, Faye Kendall, Genessa Kealoha, Giles Goodhead, Jeanne Lorenz, Kiera Heiser, Lena Verderano Reynoso, Mary Marxen, Matt Reynoso, Michelle Morby, Noah Sakamoto, Ryan McJunkin, Sophie "Annual Group Show & Open Studios" at Compound Gallery

Thursday, July 14

+ Artist Talk: "BAN6 Artist Series" Sean McFarland at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 6-8pm

Screening: Michael Stabile "SMUT CAPITAL OF AMERICA" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 7:30pn

Open Studio: "Lower Polk Art Walk" at Alliance Francaise de SF
Downtown: 1345 Bush Street, 6-10pm

Toi Hoang "Homecoming" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, free, 5-7pm

+ "TEXTile" at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , Free with live music, 5-8pm

+ Frances Young, Genevieve Quick, Maude Léonard-Contant, Youngsuk Suh "Residency Projects I" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 6-8pm

Dan McClain, Harry Clewans , Holly Downing, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Misaki Matsui, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Richard Wagener, Seiko Tachibana, Simona Prives "On View: New Work from Kala" curated by Mayumi Hamanaka, Yuzo Nakano at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 6-8pm

Nathan Cordero "Are You Destined to Become your Mother?" at Nelson Gallery at UC Davis (Nelson Hall)
Davis: 1 Shields Avenue, floor 1, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, July 15

Christopher De Leon, James Garcia, Minette Mangahas "When We Were Kids" at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, free, 6-9pm

+ Jered Sprecher, Wayne Smith at Gallery 16 SOMA: 501 Third Street, 6-9pm

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

+ Terry Berlier "Open Secret" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 7-9pm

Performance: "Division of Labor" See website for complete festival calender at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $11, Festival passes $36, Doors 8pm, show 8:30pm

Screening: Matti Bye and Kristian Holmgren "New Sounds for Silent Film" The Great White Silence at Headlands Center for the Arts (Castro Theatre)
Castro: 429 Castro Street, Market, $17.00, 7pm

Artist Talk: "The Book As Art: Form And Function In Creative Book Structures With Dominic Riley" at San Francisco Center for the Book
Potrero Hill: 300 De Haro Street, Free, 7-9pm

+ Hadley Williams, Tallulah Terryl "Surface: Pattern :: Pattern: Surface" curated by Peter Hayes at Local 123
Berkeley: 2049 San Pablo Avenue, at University Avenue, 7-9pm

Saturday, July 16

"Farewell Group Exhibition" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 11am-5pm

"Dancing the Diaspora" at Museum of the African Diaspora
SOMA: 685 Mission Street, floor 1, Free, 2-4pm

Bradley Platz and Michael Ryan "The Order" at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, 7-10pm

+ "The Tropics" at Maniac Gallery
Tenderloin: 727 Leavenworth Street , floor 1, 7-10pm

Performance: Cartoon Justice, Eurostasche "Cartoon Justice presents: Electric Eclectic Kinetic" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

+ Performance: Matti Bye Ensemble "New Sounds for Silent Film" The Blizzard at Headlands Center for the Arts (Castro Theatre)
Castro: 429 Castro Street, Market, $14, 2pm

Jenny Phillips & Larraine Seiden "Wax" at Inclusions Gallery
Bernal Heights: 627 Cortland Avenue, 6-8pm

Sunday, July 17

"Mischief" Characters, critters and comics at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

+ Christine Wong Yap, Davis Robbins, Guy Debord, James Hayward, Matt Borruso, Nicholas Knight, Nina Zurier, Whitney Lynn "Negative Space" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, continuing at Guerrero Gallery, 3-7pm

Charles Linder, Mark Mulroney "“Sent Upstate” and “Swimmingly, with Watermelons and Referrals”" at Guerrero Gallery
Mission District: 2700 19th Street, 3-7pm

Performance: Matti Bye Ensemble "New Sounds for Silent Film" He Who Gets Slapped at Headlands Center for the Arts (Castro Theatre)
Castro: 429 Castro Street, Market, $17.00, 7:30pm

+ Closing reception: Alison OK Frost, Andreina Davila, Annie Frykholm, Crystal Morey, David Spiher, Eric Sanchez, Faye Kendall, Genessa Kealoha, Giles Goodhead, Jeanne Lorenz, Kiera Heiser, Lena Verderano Reynoso, Mary Marxen, Matt Reynoso, Michelle Morby, Noah Sakamoto, Ryan McJunkin, Sophie "Annual Group Show & Open Studios" at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, free, 3-6pm

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