Deep breath. The art fairs are over, graduate show season is winding down (still have to make it Stanford’s MFA show…)

And yet there are exciting things to do this week. 

There is a screening at SFMOMA on Thursday as part of their ‘stay open late with music and free food and activities once a month’ thing which will ‘add historic perspective to the Descriptive Acts exhibition by showcasing seminal narrative experiments made between 1975 and 1992.’ Works by John Smith, Jeanne C. Finley, and Gary Hill will be screened, considering the strength of Descriptive Acts parts 1 and 2, its bound to be good.

And, opening the same day is International Orange, a huge, ambitious exhibition organized by the For Site Foundation celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. Featured artists include Abelardo Morell, Allison Smith, Anandamayi Arnold, Andy Freeberg, Bill Fontana, Camille Utterback, Cornelia Parker, Courtney Lain, David Liittschwager, Doug Hall, Jeannene Przyblyski, Kate Pocrass, Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, Pae White, and Stephanie Syjuco. What I’ve seen of Allison Smith’s installation and Stephanie Syjuco’s ‘orange’ shop is very promising. There is tons of info about the events/directions/hours etc at http://www.for-site.org/ . 

Finally, I would like to take a sec to say ‘hello’ to any new subscribers to this email, especially those we met at artMRKT over the weekend. If you, (or really anyone reading this) are so inclined, let us know what we can do to better your bay area art experience. If your requests line up with things we want and are willing to do, we’ll certainly do our best.


Curiously Direct

Though both shows lack artist or curatorial statements, I would like to recommend

Important Projects Gallery II//Paul Cowan: New Work= A ridiculous show, with sound, scent, and incredibly 'stupid' framed works. But, in this case, its stupid in the way I very much like, refreshingly simple. Recommended, especially in conjunction with:

Important Projects Gallery 1//Brian Morello: Notes on a Prequel= In the small space, , a very adept installation of painted walls and flat(ish) works, best for its small touches on the walls and creative set of ink marks, often on glass or marked into foil... I was very impressed with the totality of the show, and with the simple textures and decisions in the work on Morello's website. A good pair of shows.

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And a guilty suggestion, Art Cards’ very own Jackie Im hosts a movie night at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (388 Ninth Street, Suite 290, $5, 7-9pm) and this month’s film is Abbas Kiarostrami’s Ten (Kiarostami, 2002) as chosen by artist Zina Al-Shukri.  

Tuesday:

+ Screening: Abbas Kiarostrami "Movie Night at the OACC: Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)" at Oakland Asian Cultural Center

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Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: Tammy Rae Carland "I'm Dying Up Here Hosted by Christina Linden" at Kadist Art Foundation
+ "Visioning The Invisible in Augmented Reality: Youth Advisory Board's virtual exhibition in the digital dimension" at Southern Exposure
+ Screening: Alexis McCrimmon, Bug Davidson, Emily Wingren, Emily Y. Wang, Kehontas Rose, Lauren Soldano, Lindsay Laven, Parke Ballantine, Samara Halperin "Periwinkle Cinema Presents: SELF-REFLEXIVE" at A.T.A.

Thursday:
+ Zachary Royer Scholz "Nothing Is Ever Finished" at Eli Ridgway Gallery
+ Screening: Gary Hill, Jeanne C. Finley, John Smith "Descriptive Acts" curated by Rudolf Frieling at SF MOMA
+ Abelardo Morell, Allison Smith, Anandamayi Arnold, Andy Freeberg, Bill Fontana, Camille Utterback, Cornelia Parker, Courtney Lain, David Liittschwager, Doug Hall, Jeannene Przyblyski, Kate Pocrass, Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, Pae White, Stephanie Syjuco "International Orange" at For-Site Foundation

Friday:
+ Screening: "1968 Film Series: 2001: A Space Odyssey" at Oakland Museum of California

Saturday:
+ Abelardo Morell, Allison Smith, Anandamayi Arnold, Bill Fontana, Camille Utterback, Cornelia Parker, Courtney Lain, Dana Sherwood, David Liittschwager, Doug Hall, Jeannene Przyblyski, Kate Pocrass, Mark Dion, Pae White, Stephanie Syjuco "International Orange" curated by Cheryl Haines at FOR-SITE Foundation (The Exhibition Pavilion )
+ Christopher Füllemann "I get excited. You get excited." curated by Emmy Moore, Jonah Susskind at S.H.E.D. Projects

Tuesday, May 22

+ Screening: Abbas Kiarostrami "Movie Night at the OACC: Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)" at Oakland Asian Cultural Center Oakland: 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290, $5, 7-9pm

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Wednesday, May 23

Performance: Jordan Essoe "The Propeller" curated by Hanna Regev at The McLoughlin Gallery Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94108, Second Floor, 7-9pm

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Wayne Thiebaud "Paintings and Pastels" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Artist Talk: Tammy Rae Carland "I'm Dying Up Here Hosted by Christina Linden" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, Free, 6-10pm

+ "Visioning The Invisible in Augmented Reality: Youth Advisory Board's virtual exhibition in the digital dimension" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 5-7pm

+ Screening: Alexis McCrimmon, Bug Davidson, Emily Wingren, Emily Y. Wang, Kehontas Rose, Lauren Soldano, Lindsay Laven, Parke Ballantine, Samara Halperin "Periwinkle Cinema Presents: SELF-REFLEXIVE" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8 - 10 pm

Thursday, May 24

+ Zachary Royer Scholz "Nothing Is Ever Finished" at Eli Ridgway Gallery
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Screening: Aleksei Guerman "My Friend Ivan Lapshin" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 7:30 - 10pm

+ Screening: Gary Hill, Jeanne C. Finley, John Smith "Descriptive Acts" curated by Rudolf Frieling at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium)., 7-8:30 pm

+ Abelardo Morell, Allison Smith, Anandamayi Arnold, Andy Freeberg, Bill Fontana, Camille Utterback, Cornelia Parker, Courtney Lain, David Liittschwager, Doug Hall, Jeannene Przyblyski, Kate Pocrass, Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, Pae White, Stephanie Syjuco "International Orange" at For-Site Foundation
Marina District: Fort Point, Fort Point National Historic Site, beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge, VIP: $250 per person; Premiere: $50 per person, 8-10 pm

Friday, May 25

Richard Blakely "Between the Lines" curated by Incline Gallery at INCLINE Gallery
Mission District: 766 Valencia Street, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

Ati Maier, Jose Sarinana, Lisa Chou, Omar Chacon "Yi, Dos, Drei, Four" at Fouladi Projects
Hayes Valley: 1803 Market Street, Free, 6-8pm

+ Screening: "1968 Film Series: 2001: A Space Odyssey" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street, Oak Street Plaza, 8:30-10:30pm

Saturday, May 26

Screening: Aleksei Guerman and Grigori Aronov "The Seventh Companion" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 7:30 - 10pm

+ Abelardo Morell, Allison Smith, Anandamayi Arnold, Bill Fontana, Camille Utterback, Cornelia Parker, Courtney Lain, Dana Sherwood, David Liittschwager, Doug Hall, Jeannene Przyblyski, Kate Pocrass, Mark Dion, Pae White, Stephanie Syjuco "International Orange" curated by Cheryl Haines at FOR-SITE Foundation (The Exhibition Pavilion )
Marina District: Fort Scott District at the corner of Storey Avenue, near the Log Cabin, Free, 10am-5pm

+ Christopher Füllemann "I get excited. You get excited." curated by Emmy Moore, Jonah Susskind at S.H.E.D. Projects
Oakland: 1917 Peralta Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Sunday, May 27

Screening: Ardak Amirkulov "The Fall of Otrar" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers, 2-5pm

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