Artcards San Francisco Weekly Update

How was your weekend? Mine was great, thanks for asking. I was in Los Angeles at Printed Matter's first LA Art Book Fair, which is to say, between making my way to ~20 galleries, I managed to visit the fair on three separate occasions. Still, I didn't see everything, because despite reports to the contrary print is live and well, especially in the arts, and there were endless tables of gems to sift through.

Perhaps this is due to fetishizing the physicality of ephemera in an age of conceptual art. Whatever the reason, zine/handmade culture, theory, photography, publication-as-art etc. all found themselves heavily represented at the fair. Highlights?
Following are a few presses to keep an eye out for.

Magazines (some of which make books)
Fillip
Mousse
Afterall

Consistently very good things
Primary Information
Sequence
Sternberg Press

Local favorites at the fair
Needles and Pens
Land and Sea
Colpa Press
Little Paper Planes

I've taken up enough of your inbox sifting time, but before I go, I must mention Colter Jacobsen and Frances Stark @ Paule Anglim (opening today, tuesday!), which looks like it may be good, and at SFAI's McBean Gallery on Friday, Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary Response. I'd much rather they had skipped the 'contemporary response' part and just focused on this relatively unknown group, but still I'm excited to see the show.

Tuesday, February 5

Performance: Aurora Switchblade, Burning Monk Collective(Peter Griggs), DJ Irrelevant Transmission, Grace Pool, Lambert, LaRece Egli, Michelle L Morby, Nico Peckl, Xavier MTW "The News: One Year Anniversary=Sweethearts Dance" curated by Komel, Peter Max Lawrence at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 5.00, 7:30pm-9:30pm

+ Colter Jacobsen "Scanning the long sleeves of the shore" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

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+ Frances Stark "MEMENTO MORI: towards a compendium of disseminations" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

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Emily Bayless, Ingrid V. Wells, Li Ma, Momo Yao "Whimsical Sister Group" curated by Ariel Zaccheo at San Francisco Art Institute (Diego Rivera Gallery)
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 5-7pm

+ Lecture: "Wattis Talks: Binta Ayofemi" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, Free, 7:30pm

Wednesday, February 6

John Belingheri "John Belingheri" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Barbara Holmes, Christine Lee, Imin Yeh, John F. Hunt, Julia Goodman, Russell Baldon, Scott Oliver, US Department of Agriculture Forest Products Labor "By-product Becomes Product" at Intersection for the Arts (Intersection 5M)
SOMA: 901 Mission Street, at 5th Street, floor 1, 5:30-7:30pm

Lecture: "The Process Of Durational Performance" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, FREE, 4:30 PM

Thursday, February 7

"Building a Collection: 20th Century Masters" at George Krevsky Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Stephanie Weber "Enfolding" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Filip Dujardin "(dis)location" at Highlight Gallery
Downtown: 17 Kearny Street, Free, 6-8pm

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Tom Van Houten "Sculptures by Tom van Houten" at Canessa Gallery
Downtown: 708 Montgomery Street, free, 6-8pm

Bobak Etminani "The Grey Paintings" at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Alex Kanevsky "The Fox and the Hedgehog" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, FREE and open to the public, 5:30-7:30pm

Olivia Brown, Rachel Sager "Transitional Forces" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

+ Performance: Fred Frith "First Thursday Performance" at 60SIX
Mission District: 66 Elgin Park, floor 1, Free, 5:30-8pm

Gary Edward Blum "Empty and Beautiful" at Paul Mahder Gallery
Richmond District: 3378 Sacramento Street, Free, 6-9pm

Panel Discussion: Ben Belknap, Carol Koffel, Erik Scollon "An Evening with Ceramics Alumni" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Treadwell Ceramics Arts Center, Free, 7:15pm

Friday, February 8

CJ. Schake, Ethel Jimenez, Jimmy Leong, Judy On, Kevin Brown "Abstract Conversations" curated by Judy On at 101 Post
Downtown: 101 Post Street, Free, 5-8pm

+ "Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary Response" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Free, 6-9pm

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Thingamajigs Performance Group "OPEN REHEARSAL" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, FREE, 7-8pm

Saturday, February 9

Richard Bassett "Options" at Jack Fischer Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, Free, 3-5pm

Sickboy "Mello Diorama: A Solo Project by Sickboy" curated by Justin Giarla at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, $0, 7:00-11:00pm

Amanda Klimek, Christopher Sicat, Gregory Kaplowitz, Jamie Brunson , Jenn Shifflet, John Wood, Mia Nakano, Michelle Mansour, Mieko Hara, Peter Foucault, Randy Colosky, Rebecca Shortle, Sandra Ono, Sid Garrison, Tobias Tovera "Permutation Unfolding" curated by Rebecca Shortle, Tobias Tovera at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, Free, 7-10pm

Adam Henderson, Barbara Boissevain, Beckey Kaye, Byron Peters, Dalia Anani, Eleanor Oakes, Elizabeth Moran, Gwynessa Balvanz, Joey Enos, Jonathan Huang, Kat MacKinnon, Marie-Luise Klotz, Megan Atherton, Missy Engelhardt, Sarah Nantais, Simon Pyle, Tamra Se, Taylor Friend "MFA Now 2013" curated by Brian Karl at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-10pm

Closing reception: Heike Liss, Huey Crowley , Laina Terpstra "Distraction" at 60SIX
Mission District: 66 Elgin Park, floor 1, Free, 1-3pm

+ Performance: Barn Owl, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, John Davis, Marielle Jakobsons, Paul Clipson "Cast Shadows" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $15 Gen | $25 Supporter | $50 Sponsor, 8pm

Preview: Emily McDowell, Jen Hewett, Karrie Bakes, Zelma Rose "Valentine's Trunk Show" at Rare Device
Western Addition: 600 Divisadero Street, Free, 12-6pm

Eric Mertens, Wendy Gadzuk at Kuhl Frames +Art
Oakland: 412 22nd Street, Free, 5-8pm

Artist Talk: Jerry Carniglia, Randy Colosky "Artist Talk with Jerry Carniglia and Randy Colosky, Moderated by John Zurier" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, Free, 2-3pm

Artist Talk: Angela O'Keefe, Nancy Genn, Sanjay Vora "Re/Surfaces" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, Free, 2-3:30mpm

Stephen Ratcliffe, Thingamajigs Performance Group "Temporality" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, FREE, 8:00 am-10 pm

Dana King, Jan Hart, Latisha Baker, Stephen Bruce "The Art of Living Black: 17th Annual Bay Area Black Artists Exhibition" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Free, 2-5pm

Sunday, February 10

+ Sonya Rapoport ""ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" Data Gathering Event" at Martina } { Johnston
Berkeley: 1201 Sixth Street, 2nd , Free, 1-4pm

Monday, February 11

Drew Cameron, Julia Goodman "Well Worn: Handmade Paper Works by Julia Goodman and Drew Cameron" at Z Space (at Theater Artaud)
Mission District: 450 Florida Street , floor 1, Free, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Interior Design Lecture Series: Gary Hutton" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm