We have a well-rounded week ahead of us; including: the Mission Open Studios (happening at various locations) all weekend; hot NYC-based painter Jules de Balincourt talks at CCA in SF on Wednesday; interesting art openings taking place all week (for example, at Creativity Explored and Local 123); and an art critics' round table at The Lab on Saturday.  See you out there.

Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: Jules de Balincourt "Presented as part of CCA's Painting Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
+ "Domestic Disturbance" at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)

Thursday:
+ "Science Fiction" at Creativity Explored
+ Ajit Chauhan "What's That Hanging On My Bicycle?" at Jack Hanley Gallery

Friday:
+ Bessma Khalaf, Ryan Boyle at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
+ Sarina Eastman "Feel it/Heal it" at Local 123

Saturday:
+ Lecture: "Critical Sources" Writing about art in the Bay Area at The Lab
+ Closing reception: "SYZYGY" The Fourth Annual Juried Show at The Lab
+ Art Fair: Bounce / Trust Your Struggle, CkaweekS / Hawaii, Doves / TC5 / Xmen NYC, Estria, Jash / DC5 Chicago "Don't Sweat the Technique" at Estria Battle
+ Renée Castro "I DREAM OF YOU RABBIT, JACKRABBIT & HIGH HEELS" at Pueblo Nuevo

Tuesday, October 6

Book Signing: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha "Earth" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 6:30pm

Wednesday, October 7

Brad Howe, Gordon Huether, Pang-Chieh Hsu, Seamus Conley, Ted Larsen "Five" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Artist Talk: Jules de Balincourt "Presented as part of CCA's Painting Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

Artist Talk: Anne Wilson "Presented as part of CCA’s Design and Craft Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Nahl Hall, 7-9pm

+ "Domestic Disturbance" at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 0 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, 5-8pm

Thursday, October 8

Rakuko Naito , Zachary Royer Scholz "Circles and Squares" at NOMA Gallery
SOMA: 80 Maiden Lane, floor 3, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Carlos Motta at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 7pm

"Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks" at Frey Norris Gallery
Downtown: 456 Geary Street, 6-8pm

+ "Science Fiction" at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

Closing reception: Douglas Gayeton "Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, 7:30-10pm

Douglas Gayeton "Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 593 Guerrero Street, $5 members; $10 general, 7-9pm

+ Ajit Chauhan "What's That Hanging On My Bicycle?" at Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission District: 395 Valencia Street, 6-8pm

Friday, October 9

Closing reception: "Ying and Yang Exhibit" at Garage Gallery
SOMA: 655 Bryant, Garage, 5-8pm

Catherine M. Feeney "At Arm's Length" curated by Laura Poppiti at 31 Rausch Gallery
SOMA: 31 Rausch Street, 6-11pm

"2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 6-8pm

Elizabeth Stahl , Jennifer Ewing, Margo Mullen "Spirit Boats" at Kathleen McMahon Fine Art Gallery
Mission District: 3150 18th Street , found on Treat Avenue between 17th and 18th Street, FREE, 5-9pm

+ Bessma Khalaf, Ryan Boyle at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, 6-8pm

Paul Madonna "Palindrome" at Four Barrel Art Series
Mission District: 375 Valencia Street, 6-8pm

Andrew Perry, Lawrence Yang, Paul Hayes "CREEP SHOW!" at Lower Haters Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 597 Haight Street, 7-11pm

Artist Talk: Agnes Bourne, Edward Stanton "Art Conversations" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond District: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 5-8pm

+ Sarina Eastman "Feel it/Heal it" at Local 123
Berkeley: 2049 San Pablo Avenue, at University Avenue, 6-8pm

Saturday, October 10

Steve MacDonald "Upstairs Is Where The Magic Happens" at Shooting Gallery (Gallery Three)
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 2, White Walls, 7-11pm

"The Stencil Show" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

C3, KMNDZ & Akira at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

+ Lecture: "Critical Sources" Writing about art in the Bay Area at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $5-10 sliding scale, 3-5pm

+ Closing reception: "SYZYGY" The Fourth Annual Juried Show at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 6-9pm

telephone & soup "Shitty Kitty is in MOROCCO and it's f-ing magical" curated by Leef Smith at Mission: Comics & Arts
Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 7-10pm

Open Studio: Ursula Xanthe Young at fabric8
Mission District: 3318 22nd Street , 7-11pm

+ Art Fair: Bounce / Trust Your Struggle, CkaweekS / Hawaii, Doves / TC5 / Xmen NYC, Estria, Jash / DC5 Chicago "Don't Sweat the Technique" at Estria Battle
Oakland: 1651 Adeline Street, deFremery Park , FREE, 11am - 5pm

Artist Talk: "Daniel Alarcón and Carlos Motta: Next-Generation Latin American Art and Literature" Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Museum Theater, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 3pm

+ Renée Castro "I DREAM OF YOU RABBIT, JACKRABBIT & HIGH HEELS" at Pueblo Nuevo
Berkeley: 1828 San Pablo Avenue, 7-11pm

Lecture: Tom Marioni at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, $5, 4pm

Sunday, October 11

Andrew Perry, Ayu Tomikawa, Brian Behnke "Brainstorms" at Studio Gallery
Downtown: 1815 Polk Street, 2-6

Monday, October 12

Xu Tan "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, FREE, 7:30pm

Lecture: David Gissen "Anxious Climate: Architecture at the Edge of Environment" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7-9pm

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