First Thursday in San Francisco and First Friday in Oakland bring a shower of events this week! Build your own gallery list on the Artcards.cc San Francisco website with the gray arrows on the right side of the listings, print it for yourself or email it to a friend. If you are in Berkeley this week, drop by the wonderful show that just opened, "Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye" at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Tuesday:
+ Book Signing: "FREE FIRST TUESDAY & BOOK SIGNING PARTY" at SF Camerawork
+ "Group Show @ Swell Gallery" SFAI Graduate Projects at San Francisco Art Institute (Swell Gallery)
+ "First Year MFA Show" University of California at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)

Thursday:
+ "Inside/Outside: Artist Environments" at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
+ Attiya Shaukat, Mudassar Manzoor "Contempoary Miniature Paintings" at Frey Norris Gallery
+ "LandMark" at Haines Gallery
+ David Ireland , Tony Oursler at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ "Edward Hopper & Company" at Fraenkel Gallery
+ "I Love To Turn You On/Utopia and A Two Dollar Bill" at Ever Gold
+ "twice upon a time" at Silverman Gallery

Friday:
+ Lecture: Lindsey White "A Field Guide To The Atmosphere" at Ping Pong Gallery
+ Lindsey White "A Field Guide To The Atmosphere" at Ping Pong Gallery
+ John Trenholm Abrahams "Mountain of Nature" at Four Barrel Art Series
+ "AMPLIFYING THE TWILIGHT" at Ampersand International Arts
+ "Print Sale" One night only at Hatch Gallery
+ Eliza Fernand "billow / ripple" Silent Auction and CD Release at Fort Gallery
+ "Cardboard City" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Saturday:
+ Performance: "The Usa Family Estate: An auction of Americana" at Fivepoints Arthouse
+ Gary Brewer "A Seductive Nature" at ArtZone 461 Gallery
+ Open Studio: "3D Coloring Book" Participatory Art Event at Big Umbrella Studios

Sunday:
+ Closing reception: "Eat In With Slow Food Nation" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Monday:
+ Lecture: Fabian Marcaccio "Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture" at San Francisco Art Institute

Tuesday, March 3

+ Book Signing: "FREE FIRST TUESDAY & BOOK SIGNING PARTY" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 6pm

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

"Screen Jest" at San Francisco Art Institute (Diego Rivera Gallery)
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Diego Rivera Gallery, 4:30pm

Kristen Morgin "The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, 7pm

+ "Group Show @ Swell Gallery" SFAI Graduate Projects at San Francisco Art Institute (Swell Gallery)
Potrero Hill: 2565 Third Street, Central Waterfront, 7-9pm

+ "First Year MFA Show" University of California at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 0 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, 4-7pm

Wednesday, March 4

Lecture: Gijs Bakker "CCA Design and Craft Series 2009" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street, Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus, 7pm

Thursday, March 5

"Neither Up Nor Down" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 6pm-Late

Screening: "Watchmen Cartoon Art Museum Benefit Screening" at Cartoon Art Museum
SOMA: 655 Mission Street, $25-250 sliding scale, 7pm

Screening: "Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Songs" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, $10, 7pm

+ "Inside/Outside: Artist Environments" at The Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, 6-9pm

"Les Trois Esprits" at Gallery 291
Downtown: 291 Geary Street, floor 5, 6-9pm

+ Attiya Shaukat, Mudassar Manzoor "Contempoary Miniature Paintings" at Frey Norris Gallery
Downtown: 456 Geary Street, 6-9pm

Ursula O'Farrell at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-8pm

Jessica Skloven, Lucia Zegada at Togonon Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, 5:30-8pm

Gary Clemenceau, Scott Kiernan, Tobias Tovera at Micaela Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 234, 6-8pm

+ "LandMark" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30 pm

+ David Ireland , Tony Oursler at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30 pm

+ "Edward Hopper & Company" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30 pm

Wythe Bowart "Fun with Follicles" at Public Barber Salon
Downtown: 571 Geary Street, at Jones Street, $2, 7-10pm

Hadi Tabatabai, Sono Osato at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30 pm

Squeak Carnwath at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30 pm

+ "I Love To Turn You On/Utopia and A Two Dollar Bill" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

Brent McHugh "Toys and Whispers" at Cafe Royale
Downtown: 800 Post Street, 8-Midnight

Joshua Meyer "Scattered Syllables" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-8pm

+ "twice upon a time" at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

"(re)Turn to (re)Form: Chinese Classicism in New Media" at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Cheryl Coon's Senior Class at 625 Gallery (688 Gallery)
Downtown: 688 Sutter Street, 688 Gallery, 5:30-7:30 pm

Paul Konzon at 625 Gallery
Downtown: 625 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30 pm

"Lucky Penny" at Hang Art (HANG ART )
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, Hang Art annex, 6-8pm

David Lippenberger "Ordered Distortion" at Hang Art
Downtown: 556 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Alex Gundlach , Amos Goldbaum, Clee Sobieski at Space Gallery
Civic Center: 1141 Polk Street, 8-Late

"Mixed Messages" at FIFTY24SF Gallery
Hayes Valley: 248 Fillmore Street, 7:30-9pm

"Making Space" Divisadero Art Walk on March 5th at Divisadero Community Gallery
Western Addition: 537 Divisadero Street, 6-9pm

Friday, March 6

"9: Nine Women, Nine Visions" at Garage Gallery
SOMA: 655 Bryant, Garage, 6-9pm

at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

+ Lecture: Lindsey White "A Field Guide To The Atmosphere" at Ping Pong Gallery
Mission District: 1240 22nd Street, 7pm

+ Lindsey White "A Field Guide To The Atmosphere" at Ping Pong Gallery
Mission District: 1240 22nd Street, 6-9pm

+ John Trenholm Abrahams "Mountain of Nature" at Four Barrel Art Series
Mission District: 375 Valencia Street, Four Barrel Coffee, 6-8pm

+ "AMPLIFYING THE TWILIGHT" at Ampersand International Arts
Potrero Hill: 1001 Tennessee Street, 6-8:30pm

John Wentz "Adaptive Radiation" at D-Sturcture
Hayes Valley: 520 Haight Street, 8-11pm

Arounna Khounnoraj "Attachment Series" at Rare Device
Hayes Valley: 1845 Market Street, 7-9pm

+ "Print Sale" One night only at Hatch Gallery
Oakland: 492 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 6-9pm

+ Eliza Fernand "billow / ripple" Silent Auction and CD Release at Fort Gallery
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 6-9pm

"The Challenge" at FiveTen studio
Oakland: 831 Broadway Avenue, 6-9pm

Erik Parra, Victoria Wagner "Formations" at Blankspace
Oakland: 6608 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

Closing reception: "APPLES & ORANGES: THEY'RE DIFFERENT" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 6604 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

+ "Cardboard City" at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 6-9pm

"Imitation Zoo" at Smokeys Tangle
Oakland: 4709 Telegraph Avenue, 7-9pm

Amos Gajillionaire at Well
Oakland: 4233 Telegraph Avenue, 6-10pm

"Oh, Maybe..." at Off Space
Emeryville: 1301 Powell Street, Unit 6, 6-11pm

Saturday, March 7

"VAR1OUS" at PUSH Studio
SOMA: 864 Folsom Street, 6-10pm

+ Performance: "The Usa Family Estate: An auction of Americana" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 6pm Preview, 11pm Auction

+ Gary Brewer "A Seductive Nature" at ArtZone 461 Gallery
Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, Side Gallery, 5-8pm

+ Open Studio: "3D Coloring Book" Participatory Art Event at Big Umbrella Studios
Hayes Valley: 906 Divisadero Street, 2-6pm

"Detritus" Group Show at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

"A Rare Alchemy" at FLOAT Gallery
Oakland: 1091 Calcot Place, #116, 6-9pm

"Imitation Zoo" at Smokeys Tangle
Oakland: 4709 Telegraph Avenue, 7-9pm

"MUSIC FOR YOUR EYES" at Pueblo Nuevo
Berkeley: 1828 San Pablo Avenue, 6-11pm

"What's the Worst that could Happen?" at Firehouse Collective (Firehouse Nouth)
Berkeley: 1790 Shattuck Avenue, 7-9pm

Sunday, March 8

Lecture: Jamie Lloyd "MoAD Salon Series" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 2-4pm

+ Closing reception: "Eat In With Slow Food Nation" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, A potluck item, 1pm

Monday, March 9

+ Lecture: Fabian Marcaccio "Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, 7:30pm

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