What a week. If you are anything like me, you saw some great things, you missed as much as you saw, you are not entirely sure where those people in the crowds came from, you talked too much and to too many of the same people, you need a break…

But lets not be negative nathaniels about it all. The city of San Francisco threw big, crowded messes at us all last week, lets slow it down a little, do somethings a lil’ more intimate…

Friday: S.H.E.D. Projects: MOWOM LIVE, a one night project by Bailey Hikawa and Erin Jane Nelson

Saturday: Important Projects, with McIntyre Parker in Gallery 1 and Sarah McMenimen in Gallery 2. And a new space, n/a in Oakland, with Christopher Füllemann: your motion says you’re in the mood


Sunday: Michael Dean nnnhnnh nnh nnhnnnhu nnhnhn at Pied-à-terre. His recent Herald St. show looks incredible, I’m excited to see what he brings into the special space of Pied.

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Curiously Direct Picks

Swarm Gallery//Cybele Lyle, Leigh Merrill, Emma Spertus: Fictional Familiar= Three person show of work "creat[ing] an allegory of perspective and sense of place". Spertus has a large installation in the small room which takes up much of the space with a wooden stair-step object upon which are presented a number of odd, (re)constructed objects in various materials; this is the best single exhibition of the artist's practice I've seen, her peculiar way of echoing the world around her here feels fully realized and fun to explore. Merrill's carefully edited urban scenes are best as a group of concurrently hung pictures making up a single long stretch of half-real city. Lyle's practice is also well represented with both flat work and a large scale (small in comparison with some past work) sculptural installation which takes the folded perspectives of her photography/2D work out into the world. (note: I work with Lyle at my lil' gallery) This is purportedly the last show at this gallery, one which I did not visit enough; here's looking forward to what the proprietor does next.

Wednesday:
+ Etel Adnan, Hayv Kahraman, Hesam Rahmanian, Ramin Haerizadeh, Timo Nasseri "Silk" curated by Jane Neal at Highlight Gallery

Friday:
+ Performance: Bailey Hikawa, Erin Jane Nelson "MOWOM Live" at S.H.E.D. Projects

Saturday:
+ Mcintyre Parker at Important Projects
+ Sarah McMenimen "Any Peak Will Do" at Important Projects
+ Christopher Fülleman "your motion says you're in the mood" at n/a

Sunday:
+ Michael Dean "nnnhnnh nnh nnhnnnhu nnhnhn" at Pied-à-terre

Tuesday, May 21

Ben Cowden, Hannah Quinn, Ian Treasure "Recology San Francisco, Art at the 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, 5-7pm

Wednesday, May 22

+ Etel Adnan, Hayv Kahraman, Hesam Rahmanian, Ramin Haerizadeh, Timo Nasseri "Silk" curated by Jane Neal at Highlight Gallery
Downtown: 17 Kearny Street, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Thursday, May 23

Allen Ginsberg "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg" curated by Claire Frost, Colleen Stockmann at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $10 Members; $20 General, 7-9pm

Brooke Westfall "Revised Inheritance" curated by Amy Cancelmo at Spare Change Artist Space
Financial District: 465 California Street, Suite 838 , 6:45-9:30pm

"Opening Reception /// Urban Action 34th Annual Journal Release Celebration" curated by Carolyn Ho, SfPUA, SPUR, Urban Action at The Art Gallery at Cesar Chavez Student Center
Sunset: 1650 Holloway Avenue, floor 2, FREE, 5-8pm

Enrique Chagoya "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: THE WORK OF ENRIQUE CHAGOYA " curated by Peter Selz, Sue Kubly at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 6-8pm

Friday, May 24

Artist Talk: Cardboard Institute of Technology "TRUDGE" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 155 Grove Street, Free, 6-7:30pm

+ Performance: Bailey Hikawa, Erin Jane Nelson "MOWOM Live" at S.H.E.D. Projects
Oakland: 1917 Peralta Street, Free, 7-10pm

Daniel Yovino, Jennie Lennick, Joshua Pieper, Mitsu Okubo "Enough Already" curated by Conrad M. Meyers II, Pete Hickok at Aggregate Space
Oakland: 801 West Grand Street, 6-10pm

Saturday, May 25

Heather Wilcoxon, Heiko Muller, Jennifer Poon, Joshua Hagler, Kim Weinberg Kei, Maja Ruznic, Robert Donald, Shiri Mordechay, Trenton Doyle Hancock "What the Mouth Sees" curated by Joshua Hagler at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, free, 7-10pm

Dan Quintana "Zero Instruments: A Concerto of Hearts & Minds" at Varnish Fine Art
Downtown: 16 Jessie street, suite 120, 6-9pm

Jann Nunn "Arc of Atlas" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Free, 4-7pm

Julianne Wallace Sterling "Plural" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Free, 4-9pm

Jody Medich "Stories They Told Me" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Free, 4-9pm

+ Mcintyre Parker at Important Projects
Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, Gallery I, Free, 6-9pm

+ Sarah McMenimen "Any Peak Will Do" at Important Projects
Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, Gallery II, Free, 6-9pm

+ Christopher Fülleman "your motion says you're in the mood" at n/a
Oakland: 4304 West Street, Free, 8-11pm

Sunday, May 26

+ Michael Dean "nnnhnnh nnh nnhnnnhu nnhnhn" at Pied-à-terre
Richmond District: 600 2nd Avenue, 6-8pm

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