Special Note!

This week Art Cards will be at the artMRKT fair in San Francisco. We are taking our place as a media sponser as an opportunity to share with the fair going crowd the names and info of various new/alternative venues and projects.
 
To this end we have (in collaboration with the featured projects) produced a tote bag to be given away for free. Come see us first when you visit the fair, and proudly collect the various other swag/infomatics in this handy tote. In select bags there will be (randomly) zines/work/? /pencils/information representing some of the featured spaces. We’ve produced 200+ bags, so its first come first serve.

Reminder

We are slowly formulating plans for our local Art Cards Review content. The recent preview of In Protest at the Berkeley Art Museum managed to spur some well thought out comments, which is certainly one of our goals.
Check out at 
http://artcards.cc/review/in-protest-at-berkeley-art-museum/5330/

Curiously Direct Picks

Stephen Wirtz//Paul Schiek: dead men don't look like me= Initially off-put by my first glance, and certainly nearly missed after my experience with the main room show at Wirtz (see below), this subtle body of work grew on me into something substantial. A well edited group of found, distressed, reprinted mugshots make a strange case for the interconnectivity between masculinity and crime. An excellent show, worth a patient, focused visit.

Violet Strays//Carrie Hott= Online exhibition of a single work, an illustrated timeline of the 'desk'. Perfectly suited to this odd online one-work format, it is on a virtual very long sheet of yellowed paper. The process of the object's connection to its use accompanying the transformation of the office worker through time is well presented. As someone keen on the arcane and affixed to a desk, I love it. 
At
http://www.violetstrays.com/

And, don't miss the California College of the Arts MFA Exhibition, open till the 19th, with plenty of promising new work.

Wednesday:
+ Performance: Jenifer Wofford, Kevin Simmonds, Mike Lai "Off the Wall" at Southern Exposure

Thursday:
+ Art Fair: at ArtPadSF (Phoenix Hotel)
+ Art Fair: "artMRKT San Francisco" at artMRKT San Francisco (Concourse Exhibition Center)

Friday:
+ Artist Talk: "In Conversation: Hiroshi Sugimoto with Mami Kataoka" at Asian Art Museum
+ Amy Rathbone, Brett Walker, Frank Emilio Marquez-Leonard, Jennie Smith, Kari Marboe, Kari Orvik, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck "The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition" at Berkeley Art Museum
+ Anne McGuire, Boris Scherbakov, Carrie Hott, Gail Tarantino, Lena Wolff, Lena Wolff, Linda Simmel, Luca Antonucci, Mary Anne Kluth , Noah Wilson, Nora Pauwels, Robin McCloskey "On View: New Work from Kala" curated by Mayumi Hamanaka at Kala Art Institute

Saturday:

+ Adam Katseff, Christine M. Peterson, Erik Grow, Scott Alario, Scott Polach "Light Like a Feather, Not Like A Bird" curated by Amanda “Roscoe” Mayo at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

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Wednesday, May 16

Christopher Felver, David Meltzer, Henry Miller, Jack Hirschman, Jack Micheline, Jess, John Keating, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, William S. Burroughs, William Saroyan "The Painted Word" curated by Peter Selz, Sue Kubly at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, Free, 6-8pm

+ Performance: Jenifer Wofford, Kevin Simmonds, Mike Lai "Off the Wall" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

Thursday, May 17

Screening: Aleksei Guerman "Khrustalyov, My Car!" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, YBCA Screening Room, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 7-10pm

+ Art Fair: at ArtPadSF (Phoenix Hotel)
Tenderloin: 601 Eddy Street, For ticket information, visit http://artpadsf.eventbrite.com, 6-8pm

+ Art Fair: "artMRKT San Francisco" at artMRKT San Francisco (Concourse Exhibition Center)
Potrero Hill: 620 7th Street, $20 - $150, 6-10pm

Friday, May 18

+ Artist Talk: "In Conversation: Hiroshi Sugimoto with Mami Kataoka" at Asian Art Museum
Civic Center: 200 Larkin St., Free with gallery admission, 1-2:30 pm

Beau Buck, Karrie Hovey "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Beau Buck and Karrie Hovey" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 5-9pm

Elisa Carozza "Veil: an exhibit of new paintings by Elisa Carozza" at Kuhl Frames +Art
Oakland: 412 22nd Street, 7-10pm

+ Amy Rathbone, Brett Walker, Frank Emilio Marquez-Leonard, Jennie Smith, Kari Marboe, Kari Orvik, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck "The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $10 Adults / $7 Non-UC Berkeley Students, Seniors, Disabled and Youth / Free UC Berkeley Students, Faculty, Members, Staff and children 12 & under, 6-9pm

+ Anne McGuire, Boris Scherbakov, Carrie Hott, Gail Tarantino, Lena Wolff, Lena Wolff, Linda Simmel, Luca Antonucci, Mary Anne Kluth , Noah Wilson, Nora Pauwels, Robin McCloskey "On View: New Work from Kala" curated by Mayumi Hamanaka at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 6-8pm

Saturday, May 19

+ Adam Katseff, Christine M. Peterson, Erik Grow, Scott Alario, Scott Polach "Light Like a Feather, Not Like A Bird" curated by Amanda “Roscoe” Mayo at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery Mission District: 3166 16th Street, Free, 7-9pm

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Casey Cripe "The Map Is The Territory" at J. Rusten Furniture Studio
Mission District: 2815 23rd Street, 7-11pm

Beau Buck, Karrie Hovey "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Beau Buck and Karrie Hovey" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 1-5pm

Art Fair: "Murmurama" at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, $0, 7-10pm

Sunday, May 20

Screening: Aleksei Guerman "Twenty Days Without War" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 2-5pm

Artcards San Francisco is a weekly email publication led by editor Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour. 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.