This week… lets see… I’m not sure what to see sometimes. I’ve mentioned it before but it bears repeating: that sometimes there are too many potentially good shows opening the same day is a good thing for our little scene.


But before pointing to a few of the great things opening Friday, I want to take a second to note a consistent failure exhibition-scheduling-wise. First Thursday: SF openings, first Friday: Oakland ones. Easy enough? Apparently not, with multiple SF galleries having their openings first Friday this week. This reinforces the idea that art in Oakland is a bridge too far, or that Art Murmur is bad (it is) AND that’s all there is in Oakland (it isn’t)

So, please, if you plan on going to what look like good shows at The Popular Workshop (Ben Barretto) and the Wattis Institute show curated by Will Brown (w/ Abraham Cruzvillegas, Ian Wallace, Koki Tanaka & Ryan Gander among others), please consider not missing the opening at Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland

Curated by Christina Linden, Mere Top will have works by Alice Cohen, Amy Patton, Anne Walsh, Antje Majewski, Chris Vargas, Cybele Lyle, Delia Gonzalez, Greg Youmans, Juliane Solmsdorf, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Torreya Cummings and should be quite great.


Curiously Direct Picks

Haven’t reviewed it yet, but the Will Rogan show at Altman Siegel is quite great… also:

Paule Anglim//Frances Stark: MEMENTO MORI: towards a compendium of disseminations= Solo show of strange mini-installation like objects mixing elements of painting and collage into a set of physical scrap books of sorts. The interplay of symbols and language was engaging and arcane/mysterious at times. I look forward to visiting the space again to dig deeper.

Paule Anglim//Colter Jacobsen: Scanning the long sleeves of the shore= Great little solo show of a peculiar body of small, framed flat works which, judging by it being nearly sold out, was well received. (…) I look forward to the artist's next large scale exhibition, though maybe this small room/small work format suits his minor gestures as well as any institution.

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Friday:

+ Ben Barretto "Self Help" at The Popular Workshop

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+ Abraham Cruzvillegas, Benoit Maire, Charles Gaines, David Berezin , Erick Beltrán, Haegue Yang, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Haris Epaminoda, Ian Wallace, Jiri Kovanda, Koki Tanaka, Loris Greaud, Mauricio Ancalmo, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ryan Gander, Yoan Capote "The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments" curated by A. Will Brown at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
+ Alice Cohen, Amy Patton, Anne Walsh, Antje Majewski, Chris Vargas, Cybele Lyle, Delia Gonzalez, Greg Youmans, Juliane Solmsdorf, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Torreya Cummings "Mere Top" curated by Christina Linden at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Tuesday, February 26

Lecture: "Infinite Screens Talk by Finley + Muse: The Nonfiction Imagination and the Infinite Screen" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (PLAySPACE Gallery )
SOMA: 1111 Eigth Street, Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7:30pm

Wednesday, February 27

Panel Discussion: "Mourning And Scars: 20 Years After the War exhibition" curated by Roxana Leiva at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, Free, 6-8pm

Daria Bonet, Olga Bulgakova, Rema Ghuloum, Sarah Hotchkiss ""Pacifica" features both Californian and Russian artists, crossing cultural divides, connecting disparate artistic styles gracefully together on canvas." curated by Aline Dargie at Make Hang
North Beach: 450 Green Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series: Shih Chieh Huang" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Graduate Center - GC4, Free, 7:15pm

Artist Talk: Hung Liu "Bill Berkson in Conversation with Hung Liu" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, FREE, 7:00pm

Thursday, February 28

Tour: "En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the En Foco Permanent Collection" curated by Elizabeth Ferrer at California Institute of Integral Studies
SOMA: 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, Free, 6:30pm

Cyrus Tilton "Absence" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, Free, 6:30-8pm

Carol Ladewig "YEAR IN COLOR/ LUNAR CYCLES: NEW WORK BY CAROL LADEWIG" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 0, 6-8pm

Dave Meeker "Lucky" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, Free, 6-8pm

Charlie Milgrim, Julie Alvarado "Pet Peeves" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1, Free, 6-8pm

Friday, March 1

+ Ben Barretto "Self Help" at The Popular Workshop Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

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Nicholas Price "Kaleidoscope Drawings" curated by Root Division at Root Division (ODC Theater)
Mission District: 3153 17th Street, Free, 6-7:30pm

Screening: "Only a Signal Shown" curated by Taraneh Hemami at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 7-9pm

"Bank Heist Proposal Contest and Ceremony" curated by The Center For Tactical Magic at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 7-9pm

+ Abraham Cruzvillegas, Benoit Maire, Charles Gaines, David Berezin , Erick Beltrán, Haegue Yang, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Haris Epaminoda, Ian Wallace, Jiri Kovanda, Koki Tanaka, Loris Greaud, Mauricio Ancalmo, Nathaniel Dorsky, Ryan Gander, Yoan Capote "The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments" curated by A. Will Brown at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, Free, 6-8pm

ap-art-ment: Cathy Fairbanks and Laura Boles Faw "We are the field" at Scrawl Center for Drawing
Dogpatch: 2325 Third Street, Studio 318, None, 6-9pm

Free Utopian Projects "The Free Gallery" at Pro Arts Gallery
Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, Free, 6-8pm

Andrew Benson, David O'Brien, Tamara Albaitis "Pixilated Drift" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

+ Alice Cohen, Amy Patton, Anne Walsh, Antje Majewski, Chris Vargas, Cybele Lyle, Delia Gonzalez, Greg Youmans, Juliane Solmsdorf, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Torreya Cummings "Mere Top" curated by Christina Linden at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7-10pm

Alice Cohen, Amy Patton, Anne Walsh, Antje Majewski, Chris Vargas, Cybele Lyle, Delia Gonzalez, Greg Youmans, Juliane Solmsdorf, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Torreya Cummings "Mere Top" curated by Christina Linden at Royal NoneSuch Gallery Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7-10pm

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Chris Kennedy, Doug Garth Williams, Erika Staiti with AVaspo (Gabriele Labanauskaite a, Gail Wight, Kate Gilmore, Ranu Mukherjee "A Tempting Fate: Inevitability and Scientific Fortune" at Aggregate Space
Oakland: 801 West Grand Street, Free, 6-10pm

Saturday, March 2

Travis Somerville "A Great Cloud of Witnesses" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, Free, 5-7pm

Artist Talk: Shih Chieh Huang "Synthetic Seduction" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Free with gallery admission, 2pm

Ana Labastida, Julia Lucey, Vanesa Gingold "Morphologies" curated by Janessa Post at Edo Salon and Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 601 Haight Street, FREE!, 7-10pm

Sunday, March 3

Carol Selter, Crystal Morey, Jake Watling , Jeannie O'Connor, Jeremiah Jenkins, Misako Inaoka, Walter Robinson "Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined" curated by Cathy Kimball, Stephanie Cannizzo at Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek)
East Bay: 1601 Civic Drive, floor 1, Free, 3-5pm

Closing reception: "The Book Is the Body: Mills College MFA in Book Art & Creative Writing Thesis Exhibition" at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, Free, 7pm

Monday, March 4

Lecture: "VAS Lecture: Chris Johanson" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free, but advanced registration is suggested, 7:30 pm

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