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Artcards brings you to art February 7, 2012

Weekly Outlook

Lectures, screenings, book launches, performances, the textile and tribal art fair, and of course art openings abound this week. Friday and Saturday are the busiest, but there is something for everyone, every night.

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See you out there!

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Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: Nina Katchadourian at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Artist Talk: "Jennifer Steinkamp" at Mills College Art Museum

Thursday:
+ Luca Antonucci "The New Nothing" at Cain Schulte Gallery
+ Art Fair: "Party Down in Central Market" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
+ Screening: Conrad Ventur, Narcissister, Patti Podesta, Steven Arnold, Vaginal Davis, Zackary Drucker "Dirty Looks | Queer Conversations | with Margaret Tedesco at CCA" curated by Bradford Nordeen at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Friday:
+ Matthew Palladino, Zachary Royer Scholz at Eli Ridgway Gallery view image »
+ Hayal Pozanti "Co-Real" at Silverman Gallery view image »
+ Screening: Rosa von Praunheim "Dirty Looks | City of Lost Souls | a trans punk musical at ATA" curated by Bradford Nordeen at A.T.A.
+ Art Fair: "Tribal & Textile Arts" at Fort Mason Center
+ Performance: "A Tribute to Julius Eastman" curated by Programmed by Sarah Cahill and Luciano Chessa at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:
+ Kate Steciw, Matt Nichols "All Too Familiar" at Hungryman Gallery view image »
+ Kelly Ording "Paths & Pathways" at Needles & Pens
+ Arash Fayez, Ben Bigelow, Billy Ocallaghan, Christine Elfman, Dawn Welesk, Erin Johnson, Fatema Abdoolcarim, Kari Orvik, Kate Nartker, Kent Rodriguez-Segura, Lise Currie, Michael Koehle, Michelle Ramin, Neil Rivas, Robert Gomez, Sarah Frazier, Simon Pyle, Susanna Corcoran "MFA Now 2012" curated by Kevin B. Chen at Root Division
+ Book launch: "Partisan Magazine Launch" at Will Brown
+ Art Fair: "Tribal & Textile Arts" at Fort Mason Center
+ Brian Kring, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Lisa Berman, Lisa Rappaport, Mary Laird, Matt Chase, Rachel Foster, Rebecca Peters, Studio Lorzig, Two Fine Chaps "The Art of Letterpress" curated by Co-curated with Rebecca Peters at Compound Gallery view image »
+ Performance: Chu Cha Santamaria y Usted, DJ Matty Holt, DJs Timber and Romper "Valentine's Dance" at MacArthur b arthur view image »

Sunday:
+ "Female Trouble" curated by Bradford Nordeen at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
+ Art Fair: "Tribal & Textile Arts" at Fort Mason Center

Monday:
+ Artist Talk: Dora Garcia at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Lecture: Fernando Garcia Dory "All the Rest is Wasteland: Art in the Post-Agrarian Landscape" at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)


Full Listings (All Art Events This Week)

Tuesday, February 7

"Safe Enough to Stay" at SPUR Urban Center
Downtown: 654 Mission Street, floor 1, 5-7pm


Wednesday, February 8

+ Artist Talk: Nina Katchadourian at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 7:30pm

"Seeing Double" The Best of DOUBLEtruck Magazine at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Artist Talk: "Jennifer Steinkamp" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Danforth Lecture Hall, Free, 7-9pm


Thursday, February 9

Jeff Sully, Marina Markovich "Unusual Balance" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5-7:30pm

+ Luca Antonucci "The New Nothing" at Cain Schulte Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Art Fair: "Party Down in Central Market" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, Market Street between 6th and 7th streets, Free, 5:30pm

+ Screening: Conrad Ventur, Narcissister, Patti Podesta, Steven Arnold, Vaginal Davis, Zackary Drucker "Dirty Looks | Queer Conversations | with Margaret Tedesco at CCA" curated by Bradford Nordeen at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Free, 7-10pm

Matthew E. Jones "Cymaglyph Vizwrap" at Y2Y Gallery
Richmond District: 251 Balboa Street, 6-8pm

"Temptations" A Juried All-Media Show curated by Cicely Sweed at San Francisco Women Artists
Richmond District: 3489 Sacramento St., 5:30-7pm

Daniel Galvez, Jos Sances "Opposities Attract: Meditations on a natural world, works by Daniel Galvez. Reflections on a broken system, works by Jos Sances" curated by Paul Bridenbaugh at Skyline College Art Gallery (Skyline College)
South San Francisco: 3300 College Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, 6-8pm
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Friday, February 10

"200 Yards" at Satellite 66
SOMA: 66 6th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Chance James ""into the darkness"" curated by Misho at Misho Gallery
SOMA: 680 8th street, Suite 230, 5-8pm

+ Matthew Palladino, Zachary Royer Scholz at Eli Ridgway Gallery
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-7pm
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Artist Talk: "Zadok Ben-David with Dara Solomon" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, Free with Museum admission; Limited capacity; Advance registration encouraged, 1-2:30pm

Juliette Aristides, Noah Buchanan at John Pence Gallery
Downtown: 750 Post Street, 6-8pm

Book launch: Paul J. Karlstrom "Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 7pm

+ Hayal Pozanti "Co-Real" at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 6-8pm
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Carissa Potter "People I’ve Loved" at Wire & Nail
Mission District: 3150 18th Street, suite 104, 7-9pm

"A Walk Along Cesar Chavez Street: The Cesar Chavez East Community Design Plan" at Galeria de la Raza
Mission District: 2857 24th Street , 7:30-10pm

+ Screening: Rosa von Praunheim "Dirty Looks | City of Lost Souls | a trans punk musical at ATA" curated by Bradford Nordeen at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $5, 8-11pm

+ Art Fair: "Tribal & Textile Arts" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, $15, 11am-7pm

+ Performance: "A Tribute to Julius Eastman" curated by Programmed by Sarah Cahill and Luciano Chessa at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $7, Doors 5pm, concert at 7:30pm


Saturday, February 11

"The Electrifying Conclusion" Fivepoint's last show at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-11pm

"2nd Annual Menagerie Art Exhibit and Benefit for the SF SPCA" at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, 6-10pm

Mary Iverson "Calamity" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Above, Apex , Blek Le Rat, Casey Gray, Chad Hasegawa, D Young V, D*Face, EINE, Ernesto Yerena, Georgi Tchkhaidze, Greg Gossel, Know Hope, Kofie One, Peter Gronquist, Robert Burden "Winter Group Show" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 1, 7-11pm

+ Kate Steciw, Matt Nichols "All Too Familiar" at Hungryman Gallery
Mission District: 485 14th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm
view image »

+ Kelly Ording "Paths & Pathways" at Needles & Pens
Mission District: 3253 16th Street, 7-9pm

+ Arash Fayez, Ben Bigelow, Billy Ocallaghan, Christine Elfman, Dawn Welesk, Erin Johnson, Fatema Abdoolcarim, Kari Orvik, Kate Nartker, Kent Rodriguez-Segura, Lise Currie, Michael Koehle, Michelle Ramin, Neil Rivas, Robert Gomez, Sarah Frazier, Simon Pyle, Susanna Corcoran "MFA Now 2012" curated by Kevin B. Chen at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-10pm

+ Book launch: "Partisan Magazine Launch" at Will Brown
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 6-9pm

Anastasia Kuba, Brandon Fung, Chloe’ Rose, Dan Lorenze, Diane Flick, Heather Wilder, Hethur Babka, Jenny Jenks, Jesse Aguirre, John Fair, Morgan Fung, Ryan Sivertsen, Terry Wolfinger, Todd Rutherford "Strangelove. A Valentine's Day Show" at Back to the Picture
Mission District: 934 Valencia Street, at 20th Street, 7-9pm

+ Art Fair: "Tribal & Textile Arts" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, $15, 11am-7pm

+ Brian Kring, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Lisa Berman, Lisa Rappaport, Mary Laird, Matt Chase, Rachel Foster, Rebecca Peters, Studio Lorzig, Two Fine Chaps "The Art of Letterpress" curated by Co-curated with Rebecca Peters at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 6-9pm
view image »

+ Performance: Chu Cha Santamaria y Usted, DJ Matty Holt, DJs Timber and Romper "Valentine's Dance" at MacArthur b arthur
Oakland: 4030 Martain Luther King Jr Way, floor 1, 8-11pm
view image »

Panel Discussion: "Question Bridge: Black Males Blueprint Roundtable" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, Free with Museum admission, 1-3pm

"Brian Stannard" at LightRoom Gallery
Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 2-5pm

Panel Discussion: "The Art Of Living Black" 16th Annual Bay Area Black Artists Exhibition at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 12-2pm


Sunday, February 12

+ "Female Trouble" curated by Bradford Nordeen at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 2pm

+ Art Fair: "Tribal & Textile Arts" at Fort Mason Center
Marina District: Intersection of Marina Boulevard & Buchanan Stre, $15, 11am-5pm


Monday, February 13

+ Artist Talk: Dora Garcia at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 7:30pm

+ Lecture: Fernando Garcia Dory "All the Rest is Wasteland: Art in the Post-Agrarian Landscape" at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Berkeley: Near Hearst Street, 3rd Floor , Free, 7:30-9pm


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