Claire Fontaine, the Paris based collective, has a pair of shows opening in San Francisco this week. The first is Tuesday at the Wattis Institute, inaugurating their new galleries along with the west coast premier of Werner Herzog’s work for the Whitney Biennial, Hearsay of the Soul. 

Next up is Wednesday’s Sell Your Debt, 9-11pm at Queen’s Nails and if it all goes as planned (and happens when scheduled), this will be a very compelling and dangerous opening. 50,000 matches are currently being installed, I’m both excited and frightened to be there when they are lit. 

The lecture side of things is finally about to get going, with the semesters slowly picking up steam at our local schools. Friday Paul Kos will speak at SFAI as part of their graduate lecture series. Its obscenely early (4:30pm), apparently to keep the gainfully employed from attending, but if you can make it his is an engaging practice which will be great to learn about first hand.

And, in a self-promotional note, the third of three 3-day shows my fellow Art Card editor Jackie Im and myself have organized opens on Friday at Royal NoneSuch Gallery (only to close two days later) This one is called Object Oriented, and features works by Roza Janiszewska, Reuben Lorch-Miller and James Sterling Pitt. Friday, 7-10pm, then viewable Saturday and Sunday 1-4pm. 

NOTE
One up (Erin Jane Nelson) with one to follow every week (tomorrow: James Sterling Pitt), QUESTIONNAIRE! Short little interviews, conducted via email and recorded for your listening pleasure. Contact me at project.et.al@gmail.com if you wish to participate somehow...
 
Curiously Direct Picks

As yet unreviewed, the current show at Romer Young, Amanda Curreri's The Aunque is quite great and shouldn’t be missed.

Tuesday:
+ Claire Fontaine "Redemptions" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
+ Werner Herzog "The Way Beyond Art 4: Infinite Screens" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

Wednesday:

+ Claire Fontaine "Sell Your Debt" at Queens Nails

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Friday:

+ James Sterling Pitt, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Roza Janiszewska "Object Oriented" curated by Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

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Monday:
+ Lecture: "Design and Craft Lecture Series: Simon Starling" at California College of the Arts (CCA)

Tuesday, January 22

+ Claire Fontaine "Redemptions" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, free, 7-9pm

+ Werner Herzog "The Way Beyond Art 4: Infinite Screens" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, Free, 7-9pm

Wednesday, January 23

+ Claire Fontaine "Sell Your Debt" at Queens Nails Bernal Heights: 3191 Mission Street, Free, 9-11pm

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Lecture: "Lecture Series: Jack Da Silva" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Oliver Art Center, Free, 7pm

Hung Liu "Hung Liu: Offerings" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, FREE, 6-8pm

Thursday, January 24

Amanda Boe, Charles Purvis, Jon McNeal "The Residents: Photographic Work from the Dickerman Prints Residency Program" at Dickerman Prints
SOMA: 1141 Howard Street, free, 6-830pm

John-Mark Ikeda "Downtown" curated by Amy Cancelmo at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 5:30pm-9:30pm

Performance: Amanda Eicher, Citizens' labratory, Jerome Waag, Valerie Imus "How to Move a Mountain" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 7-9pm

Panel Discussion: "How to Move a Mountain" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 7-9pm

Patrick St. Clair "Last Night" curated by Marisa Aragona at Red Poppy Art House
Mission District: 2698 Folsum Street, floor 1, Free, 6-9pm

Alicia Woods, Andrez Michael Karwacki, Carol Ladewig, Daniella Woolf, Maya Kabat, Richard Koci Hernandez, Silvia Poloto, Vivi Harder "Introductions" at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 6-8pm

Angela O'Keefe, Nancy Genn, Sanjay Vora "Re/Surfaces" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, Free, 6:30-8pm

Friday, January 25

Adam Friedman "Adam Friedman "Space and Time, and Other Mysterious Aggregations"" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, Free, 7-10pm

Liz Caruana "The Bay: Creators of Style: Photo Exhibition & Book Release" at Carte Blanche
Mission District: 973 Valencia Street, floor 1, Free, 6-9:30 pm

Lecture: "Writers' Series: Giovanni Singleton" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 195 De Haro Street, Writer's Studio, Free, 3:30pm

Alex Knost "Fried Performance" at Mollusk Surf Shop
Sunset: 4500 Irving Street, Free, 7-10pm

Jeff Hantman, Julia Goodman, Michael Damm "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 5-9pm

+ James Sterling Pitt, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Roza Janiszewska "Object Oriented" curated by Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im at Royal NoneSuch Gallery Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7-10pm

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Saturday, January 26

Molly Springfield "The Marginalia Archive" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, Free, 4-6pm

Jeff Hantman, Julia Goodman, Michael Damm "San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 1-3pm

Aimee Baldwin, Beckee Beemer, Bonnie Bonner, Eliza K. Jewett, Jenny Coker, Julie Allecta, Kaye Herbranson, Kristin Jakob, Leah Kaizer, Linda Cavanaugh, Margret Bowman, Maria Cecilia Freeman, Martha Bennett, Mary Gilardi, Mary Harden, Nina Antze, Peggy Irvine, Pria Graves "Plants Illustrated Exhibition" at The UC Botanical Garden
Berkeley: 200 Centennial Drive, Free with Garden Admission, 2-4pm

Sunday, January 27

Nathalie Djurberg "The Mad Tea Party: Five Videos by Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, YBCA Video Lounge, 5:30-7:30pm

Monday, January 28

Lecture: "Architecture Lecture Series: Jeanne Gang" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

+ Lecture: "Design and Craft Lecture Series: Simon Starling" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Nahl Hall, Free, 7pm

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