Hot, Hot, Hot, bring on the art! With the Bay Bridge back there are no excuses for not checking out the exciting shows on either side of the Bay this week. For Bruce Connor fans, Gallery Paule Anglim presents "Sight Vision Revisited" accompanied by some works of his SF pals.

Wednesday:
+ Lecture: Jim Sherraden "Advertising Without Posters Is Like Fishing Without Worms" All about Hatch Show Prints at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Thursday:
+ Garth Weiser, Sara VanDerBeek, Shinpei Kusanagi "see: Abstraction (disambiguation)" at Altman Siegel
+ Bruce Conner "Discovered" at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ "Sight Vision Revisited" at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ Mel Kadel "Echo Test" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
+ Artist Talk: Elín Hansdóttir, Scott Oliver "Reconstructing the Real" at Headlands Center for the Arts

Friday:
+ Nathan Redwood "On A Neck" at Electric Works
+ "HOT & COLD" Countdown to #1 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ Dora Hsiung "Chromatic Constructions: Contemporary Fiber Art by Dora Hsiung" at Chinese Cultural Center
+ Luke Butler "Captain!" at Silverman Gallery
+ Alika Cooper "A Cold Wave" at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
+ Artist Talk: Lorna Simpson at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Ricardo Richey, Robyn Twomey at Luggage Store Gallery
+ Jo Babcock, Nicholas Knight at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
+ Mitzi Pederson "I’ll Start Again" at Ratio 3

Tuesday, September 8

"Art in a Box Social & Exhibit" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Wednesday, September 9

"The Language of Anxiety" The Second Annual Intersection Intern Exhibition at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

+ Lecture: Jim Sherraden "Advertising Without Posters Is Like Fishing Without Worms" All about Hatch Show Prints at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

Thursday, September 10

"An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part One" 35th Anniversary Public Opening at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-8pm

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

Dennis Gallagher "Forms & Shapes" at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

David Hevel "Beautiful, Dirty, Dirty, Rich" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 7-9pm

Marvin Lipofsky "Survey 1969 - 2009" at Micaela Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 234, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Garth Weiser, Sara VanDerBeek, Shinpei Kusanagi "see: Abstraction (disambiguation)" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Aaron Parazette, Anders Ruhwald at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7:30pm

+ Bruce Conner "Discovered" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ "Sight Vision Revisited" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Suhas Bhujbal "Reincarnation" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

"Modest Masterpieces" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5-7:30pm

Kim Cogan at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Mel Kadel "Echo Test" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Civic Center: 66 Gough Street, at Market Street, 7-10pm

"Curiouser and Curiouser" Of White Rabbits and Orange Marmalade The fantastical art of Edward Moose Maravilla at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 6-9pm

Preview: "Meet, Eat & Greet with Rachel Cole" 18 Reasons Program Director at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 5-9pm

Antonio Veronese "Faces in the Shadows" at Paul Mahder Gallery
Richmond District: 3378 Sacramento Street, 6-9pm

+ Artist Talk: Elín Hansdóttir, Scott Oliver "Reconstructing the Real" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, 7:30pm

Friday, September 11

+ Nathan Redwood "On A Neck" at Electric Works
SOMA: 130 8th Street, Free, 6-8pm

Bounce, Chez, Eon 75, Estria, Neon, Vogue, and more "Don't Sweat the Technique" Ode to the Spray Can at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, free, 7-10pm

+ "HOT & COLD" Countdown to #1 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 5:30-8pm

+ Dora Hsiung "Chromatic Constructions: Contemporary Fiber Art by Dora Hsiung" at Chinese Cultural Center
Downtown: 750 Kearny Street, floor 3, Free, 6-8pm

+ Luke Butler "Captain!" at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

+ Alika Cooper "A Cold Wave" at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 6-8:30pm

+ Artist Talk: Lorna Simpson at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and open to the public, 7:30pm

+ Ricardo Richey, Robyn Twomey at Luggage Store Gallery
Civic Center: 1007 Market Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

+ Jo Babcock, Nicholas Knight at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 6-8pm

Jesse Schlesinger , Matt Momchilov, Nancy Chan "ALWAYS IS ALWAYS FOREVER" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 7-10pm

+ Mitzi Pederson "I’ll Start Again" at Ratio 3
Mission District: 1447 Stevenson Street, 6-8pm

Saturday, September 12

Kyle Reicher "Icons of Childhood" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 3-5pm

Crystal Liu "Give Us Our Dream: Part One" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Gideon Rubin "Mexican Summer" at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Albert Reyes, Rich Jacobs at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

D Young V at Shooting Gallery (Gallery Three)
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 2, Gallery Three, 7-11pm

Erik Otto, Kevin E. Taylor at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Jane Hambleton "Above, Below & What Falls Between" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery Mission District: 365 Valencia street, 4-9pm

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Gage Opdenbrouw, Jose Ramon Lerma at ArtZone 461 Gallery
Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, 5-8pm

Stephen De Staebler "The Sculptor’s Way" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond District: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 4:30-7:30pm

"OPEN HOUSE AND GALA RECEPTION" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond District: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 10am-4pm

Ben Belknap, Crystal Morey, Derek Weisberg "This Long Road" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Open Studio: Students of The Crucible "Community Open House & Student Art Show" curated by Crucible Staff at The Crucible
Oakland: 1260 7th Street, FREE, 12-4pm

Narangkar Glover "It's Gonna Be Awesome" at Blankspace
Oakland: 6608 San Pablo Avenue, 6-9pm

Sunday, September 13

"The Space Between Us" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, 5-8pm

Monday, September 14

"David Ireland Memorial" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Phyllis Wattis Theater, 4pm

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