Another month begins with First Thursday in SF, First Friday/Art Murmur in Oakland, and plenty of events around the bay all weekend! And, amazingly, nice enough weather to see it all!

Thank goodness for listings such as these to keep it all organized in one place... try to catch a few of our picks maybe. (Fred Wilson at Rena Bransten, The Lab's opening, or comedy drawing at Will Brown).

Wednesday:
+ Lecture: "Gene Youngblood" Radical Directing Lecture Series at San Francisco Art Institute

+ "In Other Words" An art exhibition investigating language at Intersection for the Arts

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Friday:

+ Bradley Hyppa, Carlos Castellanos, Greg Zifcak, Lizabeth Eva Rossof, Mary Frank, Robert Damphousse, Sean Bennett "Head of the Table" curated by Michael Ryan, Sean Bennett at The Lab

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+ Aaron Maietta, Soft Turns, The Chadwicks "Three Solo Exhibitions" at Southern Exposure
+ Performance: "Audio/Visual Performance: Paul Clipson & Marielle Jakobsons" at Will Brown
+ Screening: "Sight Unseen" curated by Billy Miller at A.T.A.
+ Irwin Luckman "Ceramic Sculptures from 1999-2007" at Hatch Gallery

+ Chris E. Vargas, Liz Rosenfeld, Shana Moulton, Sofia Cordova "Hybrid Narrative: Video Mediations of the Self and Imagined Self" at MacArthur b arthur

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+ Christina Corfield "Follies of the Digital Arcade" at Johansson Projects

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+ "Eighth Annual FUN-A-DAY" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Saturday:
+ Fred Wilson at Rena Bransten Gallery
+ Andrew Masullo, Canan Tolon at Gallery Paule Anglim

+ Sarah Walker "EYEFINGER" at Gregory Lind Gallery

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+ Lecture: Jimbo Blachly, Lytle Shaw "The Nelson Man o’Bar Lecture" at Southern Exposure
+ Screening: "Andrew Lampert" at A.T.A.

Monday:
+ Workshop: Alex White, Andrew Holmgren, Chris Garcia, Chris Thayer, Duat Mai, George Chen, Jesse Elias, Jessica Sele, Rajeev Dhar, Sean Keane "Comedy Drawing School" an event that combines comedy and life drawing curated by Utrillo Kushner at Will Brown

Wednesday, February 1

+ Lecture: "Gene Youngblood" Radical Directing Lecture Series at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 7:30-9pm

+ "In Other Words" An art exhibition investigating language at Intersection for the Arts Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, 7-9pm

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Thursday, February 2

David ball "Harum Scarum: A Group Exhibition Featuring the Work of David Ball" at 111 Minna Gallery SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5-11pm

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Mary Vitelli Berti "People & Places" at George Krevsky Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 3-5pm

Abdoulaye Ndoye, Mulugeta Tafesse, Soly Cisse "Passage" at Bekris Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Peter Steinhauer "Cocoons" at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Brian Dettmer "Textonomy" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

"The Public Works of Sargent Johnson" at Canessa Gallery
Downtown: 708 Montgomery Street, 5-9pm

Joshua Short "Bomb Shelter Radio and Tenderloin Self- Defense Club" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-10pm

Silvana Gallery Collection "The Masters of Contemporary Art of our days" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria) Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

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Louise Lebourgeois "Light Through Water" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

David Michael Smith "Elegy" at Scott Richards Contemporary Art
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Kelly DeFayette "See the Beauty, Touch the Magic" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Tim Doyle "Unreal Estate" at Spoke Art
Tenderloin: 816 Sutter St., 6-10pm

"Love & Lust" at CELLspace
Mission District: 2050 Bryant Street, 7-11pm

Lukasz Biederman at Carte Blanche
Mission District: 973 Valencia Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Andrea Yomtob, Omar D’leon "Neo Magic Realism" at Paul Mahder Gallery
Richmond District: 3378 Sacramento Street, 6-9pm

Friday, February 3

Peter Max Lawrence, Truong Tran "At War" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6-9pm

"John Cage" at Crown Point Press SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street, 10am-6pm

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Adriane Colburn "Of Darkness" at Luggage Store Gallery
Civic Center: 1007 Market Street, floor 2, 6-9pm

+ Bradley Hyppa, Carlos Castellanos, Greg Zifcak, Lizabeth Eva Rossof, Mary Frank, Robert Damphousse, Sean Bennett "Head of the Table" curated by Michael Ryan, Sean Bennett at The Lab Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 7-10pm

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+ Aaron Maietta, Soft Turns, The Chadwicks "Three Solo Exhibitions" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

+ Performance: "Audio/Visual Performance: Paul Clipson & Marielle Jakobsons" at Will Brown
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 9pm

+ Screening: "Sight Unseen" curated by Billy Miller at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6-10, 8pm

+ Irwin Luckman "Ceramic Sculptures from 1999-2007" at Hatch Gallery
Oakland: 492 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 6-9pm

"February Oakland Art Murmur" at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Jane Norling, Michele Hofherr "Artists' Talk at SLATE Contemporary" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, Free, 3-5 pm

+ Chris E. Vargas, Liz Rosenfeld, Shana Moulton, Sofia Cordova "Hybrid Narrative: Video Mediations of the Self and Imagined Self" at MacArthur b arthur Oakland: 4030 Martain Luther King Jr Way, floor 1, 7-10pm

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+ Christina Corfield "Follies of the Digital Arcade" at Johansson Projects Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

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+ "Eighth Annual FUN-A-DAY" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

Saturday, February 4

+ Fred Wilson at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 4-6pm

+ Andrew Masullo, Canan Tolon at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 4-6pm

+ Sarah Walker "EYEFINGER" at Gregory Lind Gallery Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 2-5pm

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"Flock" at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6pm

Patrick Graham "The Silence Becomes the Painting" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 7-9pm

James Wolanin "On the Road" at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, 3-5pm

Julia Goodman "Radicle Papyrus" curated by Maggie Spicer, Tia Paneet at 18 Reasons Gallery Mission District: 3674 18th St., 6-9pm

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+ Lecture: Jimbo Blachly, Lytle Shaw "The Nelson Man o’Bar Lecture" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 6-9pm

Gideon Chase "Muscle Beach" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 7-10pm

Matthew Craven "FRGMNTS" at Gallery Hijinks Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

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"VS: A Show of Opposites" New Works by SF and LA Artists at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, 7-10pm

John Felix Arnold III "The Love of All Above" at Queens Nails Projects
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, 6-12pm

+ Screening: "Andrew Lampert" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $5 for members, $10 for non-members, 7:30pm

Sunday, February 5

Performance: "CHINESE WHISPERS: Golden Gate" Stories of early Bay Area immigrants at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, 3pm

Monday, February 6

+ Workshop: Alex White, Andrew Holmgren, Chris Garcia, Chris Thayer, Duat Mai, George Chen, Jesse Elias, Jessica Sele, Rajeev Dhar, Sean Keane "Comedy Drawing School" an event that combines comedy and life drawing curated by Utrillo Kushner at Will Brown
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7pm

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