A good show sticks with you, pops into your mind during uneventful transit rides, becomes an example springing immediately to mind when looking at a show you like less.

Monday's Dirty Light, a solo show of paintings by Sanya Kantarovsky at Altman Siegel is a good show. The works have a strange internal power, each a picture of (amongst other emotions) distemper and uncertainty. One in which the character frequenting the canvases is folded into the picture along with a bottomless partner (head out of frame), fingers entwined, reads as nervously comfortable and melancholy. The works are helped greatly by a sensitive installation which leaves plenty of room to breath, with large swaths of wall left bare (a rare sight in a city whose galleries are usually filled to the brim). Highly recommended.

 

Wednesday:

+ Virlani Hallberg "Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg" at Et al.

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+ Screening: Christian Jankowski, Dara Friedman, Francis Alys, Gao Mingyan, Jon Rubin & Lee Walton, Mads Lynnerup, Minouk Lim, Sora Kim "Citydance" at Kadist Art Foundation
+ Performance: Jennifer Locke, Jim Melchert, Mike Lai, Tom Marioni "The Long Conversation" at Southern Exposure

Friday:
+ Amy Sillman, Anne Appleby, Brad Brown, Ed Ruscha, Gay Outlaw, John Chiara, Laura Owens, Mary Heilmann, Robert Bechtle, Susan Middleton, Tom Marioni, William T. Wiley "Working Proofs: A Revelation" at Crown Point Press
+ Antonio Prieto, Darius Milhaud, David Behrman, Fernand Leger, Henry Cowell, Hy Hirsh, Jay DeFeo, John Cage, June Watanabe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lou Harrison, Marian Van Tuyl, Merce Cunningham, Molissa Fenley, Pauline Oliveros, Rebecca Fuller, Robert Ashley, Robert Morris, Sidney Peterson "Experiments in the Fault Zone Opening Reception" at Mills College Art Museum

Saturday:
+ Screening: Christian Jankowski, Dara Friedman, Francis Alys, Gao Mingyan, Jon Rubin & Lee Walton, Mads Lynnerup, Minouk Lim, Sora Kim "Citydance" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

Tuesday, September 24

Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Andy Bichlbaum" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and Open to the Public, 7:30pm

Chad Hasegawa, Claudel Casseus, Kristin Cammermeyer, Racine Polycarpe
, Romel Jean Pierre
 "Recology San Francisco, Art at the Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Kristin Cammermeyer, Chad Hasegawa and visiting artists from Haiti" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 5-7pm

Lecture: "Lecture by Rinko Kawauchi" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, Timken Lecture Hall, FREE, 7pm

Wednesday, September 25

+ Virlani Hallberg "Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg" at Et al. Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 7-10pm

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+ Screening: Christian Jankowski, Dara Friedman, Francis Alys, Gao Mingyan, Jon Rubin & Lee Walton, Mads Lynnerup, Minouk Lim, Sora Kim "Citydance" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 7pm

+ Performance: Jennifer Locke, Jim Melchert, Mike Lai, Tom Marioni "The Long Conversation" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

Harry Bowden "Harry Bowden, American Modern Exhibition" curated by John Zarobell, Matt Gonzalez at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 0 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, Free, 4-7pm

Thursday, September 26

Paul Philp "Shadows" at Hedge Gallery
North Beach: 501 Pacific Avenue, 5:30-7:30pm

George Tice "The Photographer's Photographer" at Scott Nichols Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, San Francisco CA, Fourth Floor, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: "Conversation with David Maisel and Julian Cox" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: Ben Venom, Lucien Shaprio "Artist Talk" at Guerrero Gallery
Mission District: 2700 19th Street, 7-9pm

Friday, September 27

+ Amy Sillman, Anne Appleby, Brad Brown, Ed Ruscha, Gay Outlaw, John Chiara, Laura Owens, Mary Heilmann, Robert Bechtle, Susan Middleton, Tom Marioni, William T. Wiley "Working Proofs: A Revelation" at Crown Point Press
SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street, 6-8pm

Francesco Igory Deiana "Free Fall" at The Popular Workshop
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

Toru Sugita "Bay Area Lines and Shadows" at San Francisco State University (Fine Arts Gallery)
Sunset: 1600 Holloway Ave, Alumni Hall Gallery, Free, 3-5pm

+ Antonio Prieto, Darius Milhaud, David Behrman, Fernand Leger, Henry Cowell, Hy Hirsh, Jay DeFeo, John Cage, June Watanabe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lou Harrison, Marian Van Tuyl, Merce Cunningham, Molissa Fenley, Pauline Oliveros, Rebecca Fuller, Robert Ashley, Robert Morris, Sidney Peterson "Experiments in the Fault Zone Opening Reception" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Free, 6-8pm

Saturday, September 28

+ Screening: Christian Jankowski, Dara Friedman, Francis Alys, Gao Mingyan, Jon Rubin & Lee Walton, Mads Lynnerup, Minouk Lim, Sora Kim "Citydance" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, 7pm

Performance: Iova-Koga, Ishihara Natsumi, Koyano Tetsuro, Shinichi Iova-Koga "Never Ending Us: Fault Zone Event" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Free, 4:00 PM & 8:00 PM

Artist Talk: Brandon Walls Olsen, Matthew Gordon, Monica Lundy, Torreya Cummings "History's Mortar: Ambition" curated by Patrick W. Gillespie at Fort Point Presidio: Marine Drive, Noon - 2:00pm

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Monday, September 30

Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Mickalene Thomas" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and Open to the Public, 7:30pm

Lecture: Fiamma Montezemolo "UC Berkeley Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History" curated by Ian Alan Paul at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: 116 Kroeber Hall, Corner of Bancroft & College Worth Ryder Gallery , floor 1, 160 Kroeber Hall, Free, 7:30pm

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