Two great looking shows open Friday, one big, one small. Lets start with the small one. At n/a in Oakland, Bon/anza 3: dress for this, the fourth collaboration between artists Conrad Guevara, Lindsay Tully, and Lana Williams.  In what I considered a pretty lackluster SFAI graduate show in a difficult (impossible?) location, these artists chose to band together to show work in group show form in a separated room. A sculptor, film maker and a painter among them, the room was a bold statement of the power of collaborative, considered exhibition making in an otherwise mess of a show. I’m excited to see what they’ve arranged for this great space.

And the larger one: Dissident Futures at YBCA, a sprawling group exhibition, “an investigation into possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation in biological, social, environmental, and technological structures.” In it will be work by a number of artists I’m excited about including Kamau Amu Patton and The Otolith Group among others. 

I’m going to try to make it to both…

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Friday:
+ Basim Magdy, Brody Condon, Cauleen Smith, Connie Samaras, Dan Mills, David Huffman, Future Cities Lab, Heman Chong and Anthony Marcellini, Kamau Amu Patton, Katie Paterson, Lynn Hershman Leeson , Melanie Gilligan, Neil Beloufa, Paul Laffoley, Peter Coffin, Revital Cohen, Shane Hope, The Otolith Group, Trevor Paglen, Tuur Van Balen "Dissident Futures" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

+ Conrad Guevara, Lana Williams, Lindsay Tully "bon/anza 3: dress for this" at n/a

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Saturday:
+ Vince Contarino, Zachary Royer Scholz curated by Kirk Stoller at c2c project space
+ Tour: "3rd Saturday Guided Gallery District Tour: Art Collecting for the Socially Inclined" curated by Evan Reiser at Loakal

Sunday:
+ Panel Discussion: "ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND » Panel Discussion: Mission School: Yes or No?" curated by Natasha Boas, Renny Pritikin at San Francisco Art Institute

Wednesday, October 16

John Chiara, Lindsey White, Pablo Guardiola, Sanaz Mazinani, Tammy Rae Carland "TWISTED SISTERS: Reimaging Urban Portraiture" at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Performance: Alivia Zivich, Andy Puls, Brock Fansler, Collin McKelvey, Eva Agruilla (Experimental Half Hour), John Davis, Kamau Amu Patton, Nom De Plume (Mick Goldwater), Pod Blotz, RedRedRed, Rolan Vega, Sabrina Ratté, Sara Ludy, Scott Kiernan (ESP TV) "SMASHISM" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Performance: James Fei, Maggi Payne "Live Music Series: James Fei and Maggi Payne" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Free, 6:00pm

Thursday, October 17

Lecture: "TWISTED SISTERS Artist and Curator Panel Discussion" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 1011 Market Street, floor 2, Free, 6:30-8pm

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

Lecture: "Painting Lecture Series: Cameron Martin" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Graduate Center, GC4, Free, 5:30pm

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

Carol Inez Charney "Carol Inez Charney: New Works" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 6-8pm

Adam Donnelly, Adrienne Heloise, David Janesko, Emma Spertus, Erin Colleen Johnson, Farnaz Shadravan, Jesse Boardman Kauppila, Kevin Frances, Nance O’Banion, Rachel Granofsky "The Making is A Re-Making" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Free, 6-8pm

Friday, October 18

Jesico, Mark Heredia, Tony Duong "Connotations" at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, FREE, 6:30-9:30pm

+ Basim Magdy, Brody Condon, Cauleen Smith, Connie Samaras, Dan Mills, David Huffman, Future Cities Lab, Heman Chong and Anthony Marcellini, Kamau Amu Patton, Katie Paterson, Lynn Hershman Leeson , Melanie Gilligan, Neil Beloufa, Paul Laffoley, Peter Coffin, Revital Cohen, Shane Hope, The Otolith Group, Trevor Paglen, Tuur Van Balen "Dissident Futures" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door / YBCA Members and YBCA:You FREE, 8-10 p.m.

Jules Olitski "Colorness: The Early Spray Paintings 1965 to 1969" at Hackett Mill
Downtown: 201 Post Street, STE 1000, 5-7pm

Lecture: Mark Van Proyen "Theda's Island (and Other Atrocities)" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and Open to the Public, 4:30-6:30pm

Tiffany Bozic "Sense of Wonder" at FFDG
Mission District: 2277 Mission Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Conrad Guevara, Lana Williams, Lindsay Tully "bon/anza 3: dress for this" at n/a Oakland: 4304 West Street, FREE, 8-11pm

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Saturday, October 19

Doubleparlour "The Gastromancers" at Modern Eden
North Beach: 403 Francisco st, san francisco ca, 1st floor, 6-10pm

Art Fair: Calvin Ma, Carmen Lang, Carol F, Cathy Feiss, Donna Billick , Geetha Alagirisamy, Geordie Shephard, Glen Takai, Golly Peeters, Hollie Diley, Jenni Ward, Junghee Nicole Sohn, Katherine Dube, Mikey McGhee, Rene Martucci, Spring Montes, Susana Arias, Susanah Israel, Tony Perry "4th Ceramics Annual of America at the Civic Center Plaza, SF" at Ceramics Annual of America at the Civic Center Plaza, SF
Mid Market: Civic Center Plaza, Free, 9-6:30pm

+ Vince Contarino, Zachary Royer Scholz curated by Kirk Stoller at c2c project space
Potrero Hill: 1695 18th Street, #413, 7-9pm

Dan Lydersen "New Work" at Jack Fischer Gallery
Potrero Hill: 311 Potrero Avenue, free, 4-7pm

Anoka Faruqee "Substance and Accident" at Hosfelt Gallery
Potrero Hill: 260 Utah Street, FREE, 4-6pm

Angelina Pwerle "Bush Plum Dreaming" at Hosfelt Gallery
Potrero Hill: 260 Utah Street, FREE, 4-6pm

+ Tour: "3rd Saturday Guided Gallery District Tour: Art Collecting for the Socially Inclined" curated by Evan Reiser at Loakal
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, Free, 2pm - 4pm

Amanda Baily, Ami Puri, Emily Wingren, Heather Stockton, Lauren Soldano, Matthew Gottschalk, Samara Halperin, Steuart Pittman "Video Renegades: Experimental Video at Mills" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, free, 8:00pm

Artist Talk: Bella Feldman, Elizabeth Sher "Bella Feldman: Artist talk and film screening" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Free, 1-3pm

Sunday, October 20

+ Panel Discussion: "ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND » Panel Discussion: Mission School: Yes or No?" curated by Natasha Boas, Renny Pritikin at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 2–4 pm

Monday, October 21

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

Lecture: "Architecture Lecture Series: Kazys Varnelis, Network Architecture Lab at Columbia" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

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