Closings, openings, transitions... there is plenty of pressure and stress going around now as our towns seem to be changing beneath our feet. But instead of fretting, bemoaning, moving... lets double down. There is plenty of opportunity here, there are tons of incredible artists of all sorts with artists still choosing to move to the Bay Area because they perceive it as a rich place to be. And it is, galleries and institutions will come and go but there will always be people here to rebuild, reconsider, renew. We need to create the new, scrappy spaces of today that will be the Lab, New Langton, Southern Exposure, Queens Nails of the future. They are/were great, but maybe yours will be great too. Do a show in your bathroom, your garage, a park... make it to the shows outside of the traditional gallery area and pay attention to and visit and participate in the scenes elsewhere... and make here where you want to be.

Tuesday:

+ Lecture: Erika Hansen, Pablo Guardiola "RTS Talks: Erika Hansen + Pablo Guardiola" at Real Time & Space

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Wednesday:
+ Panel Discussion: "Two biennials in the Americas" curated by Candice Hopkins, Dominic Wilsdon at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:
+ Andrew Witrak, Christine Remy, Claire Colette, Jennifer Brandon, Sandra Ono, Tressa Pack "Luminous" curated by Catherine Wagner at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
+ Amelia Konow, Kim Bennett "Where We End and the Ether Begins" curated by Laurie Reid at Stephen Wirtz Gallery

Friday:
+ Brenna Murphy "Liquid Vehicle Transmitter" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

+ Aaron Finnis, Andrew Chapman, Christopher Füllemann, Dana Hemenway, Ginger Wolfe-Suarez & Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe "Schrödinger's Cats" curated by Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im at The Popular Workshop

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+ Ariel Goldberg "the estrangement principle" at n/a

Sunday:
+ Open Studio: "2013 Headlands Summer Open House" at Headlands Center for the Arts

Tuesday, July 16

+ Lecture: Erika Hansen, Pablo Guardiola "RTS Talks: Erika Hansen + Pablo Guardiola" at Real Time & Space Oakland: 125 10th Street, 7:30pm

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Wednesday, July 17

+ Panel Discussion: "Two biennials in the Americas" curated by Candice Hopkins, Dominic Wilsdon at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, free, 6pm

Thursday, July 18

Artist Talk: Brooke Westfall "Revised Inheritance" curated by Amy Cancelmo at Spare Change Artist Space
Financial District: 465 California Street, Suite 838 , 5:45-8:00pm

+ Andrew Witrak, Christine Remy, Claire Colette, Jennifer Brandon, Sandra Ono, Tressa Pack "Luminous" curated by Catherine Wagner at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Amelia Konow, Kim Bennett "Where We End and the Ether Begins" curated by Laurie Reid at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3, free, 5:30-7:30pm

Naomi Miller-Wave at Sanyok Gallery
Marina District: 2546 Greenwich St, San Francsico, CA 94123, First Floor, free, 6-9pm

Rachel Abrams "frustrules" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, Free, 6:30-8pm

Sabine Reckewell "A Function of Lines" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, Free, 6:30-8pm

Carol Inez Charney, Carol Lefkowitz, Diane Rosenblum, Joanne Fox, Michele de la Menardiere, Michele Sakhai, Patricia Thomas, Talita Suassuna, Victor Cohen Stuart "SLATE Summer Collection" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate contemporary Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 6-8pm

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Friday, July 19

Maja Ruznic "The Farming of Scars and Stains" curated by Alter Space at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, the Smoking Nun Gallery, 7-10pm

+ Brenna Murphy "Liquid Vehicle Transmitter" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Aaron Finnis, Andrew Chapman, Christopher Füllemann, Dana Hemenway, Ginger Wolfe-Suarez & Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe "Schrödinger's Cats" curated by Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im at The Popular Workshop Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

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Anne Veraldi, Erik Parra, Gail Tarantino, Karen Barbour, Liam Jones, Sho Tsunoda, Yuichi Hirako "Considering the Source" curated by Holly Fouladi at Fouladi Projects Hayes Valley: 1803 Market Street, 6-8pm

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Salvatore Pecoraro "A Journey with an Edge 1963-2012" curated by Preston Metcalf at Triton Museum of Art
Santa Clara: 1505 Warburton Ave., 6-8pm

+ Ariel Goldberg "the estrangement principle" at n/a
Oakland: 4304 West Street, free, 7-10pm

Screening: Hisham Mayet at Annex at John McNeil Studio
Berkeley: 2413 4th Street, $9, 7:30pm

Screening: Hisham Mayet of Sublime Frequencies "Film Screening by Hisham Mayet" at Annex at John McNeil Studio
Berkeley: 2413 4th Street, $9, 7:30pm

Saturday, July 20

Jaclyn Alderete "Indra's Net" curated by Bradley Platz at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, 6-10pm

Amy Katherine Minchew, Brenton Bostwick, Chelsea Brown, Christina Lank, Erica Calardo, Erich Josef Moffitt, Jane Kenoyer, JoKa, Lacey Bryant, Leilani Bustamante, Lyrica Glory, Matthew J. Price, Michael Cuffe, Monty Guy, Nicomi Nix Turner, P, Sharon Eisley "Mona: International Group Exhibition" curated by Bradley Platz at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, 0, 6-10pm

Christian Houge "Shadow Within (2010-2013)" at Hosfelt Gallery
Potrero Hill: 260 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Alan Rath, Birgit Jensen, Ed Ruscha, Helmut Wietz, Joseph Beuys, Kiki Smith, Michael Light, Patricia Piccinini, Tim Hawkinson "Call of the Wild" at Hosfelt Gallery
Potrero Hill: 260 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Hadley Williams "Organic Abstraction" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 4-6pm

Ruth Tabancay "Microcosmos" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 4-6pm

Kathleen King "Out Here" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Free, 4-6pm

"Reconsidering the Horizon" curated by Renny Pritikin at Photo Gallery Oakland
Oakland: 73 25th street, 2pm - 5pm

Daniel Forster, Jim Dewitt "Race for the Cup" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, FREE, 5-7pm

Sunday, July 21

Closing reception: Martin Webb ""Made for You and Me" Artist Talk and Closing Tea" at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 3-6pm

+ Open Studio: "2013 Headlands Summer Open House" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Free, 12-5pm

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