It’s a big week of openings and events… 

I’m excited to see a lot of what will be happening in downtown SF on Thursday. James Sterling Pitt will be having his first show at Gallery Paule Anglim. He is someone I have worked with personally and whose work I follow closely, so I can’t wait to see how his practice fits into the gallery’s varied roster. Altman Siegel’s next show looks to be good, a solo show of Laeh Glenn’s smart, strange paintings. 

And on that note… an idea discussed a while back was having a single show reviewed by multiple people, and this is moving forward with the first being the Laeh Glenn show.

The reviews will be short, (250 word limit… I know, short) and anyone can write one. To participate email your review by no later than February 2nd to mrharbour@gmail.com.  Every submission will be published, with a select few published together on Art Practical (up to their editorial discretion) and those not published on Art Practical shared via Curiously Direct on Facebook. The project will be under the title Set Theory, and I'll be sure to remind you as the deadline approaches.

From AP: “Our hope is that by publishing four (hopefully divergent) takes at once, reviews will actually be a bit more dialogic and that by giving writers an assignment you'll get taken out of your aesthetic comfort zone.”

And a correction, last week I used the wrong name for George Lawson. Frequent readers of these emails will have noted the occasional misspelling and bad grammar, it is something I'll try to clean up.

Tuesday:
+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Christina Linden & Ross Meckfessel" at Real Time & Space

Thursday:
+ Nathaniel Dorsky "Film Stills" at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ James Sterling Pitt "Hello Green Cosmos" at Gallery Paule Anglim
+ Laeh Glenn "Ordinary Objects" at Altman Siegel
+ Laurie Reid, Maysha Mohamedi, Rebecca Morris, Ruby Neri "The Optimists" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery

Friday:
+ Performance: Charlie Woolley, Leslie Kulesh "We all live downstream: a performance" at Et al.
+ Rhonda Holberton at CULT

Tuesday, January 7

+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Christina Linden & Ross Meckfessel" at Real Time & Space
Oakland: 125 10th Street, free, 7pm

Wednesday, January 8

"Express an Interest in Listening" at Kala Art Institute (Berkeley Central Arts Passage)
Berkeley: 2550 Center Street, 6-8pm

Thursday, January 9

+ Nathaniel Dorsky "Film Stills" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, free, 5:30-7:30pm

Peter Hujar "Love & Lust" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ James Sterling Pitt "Hello Green Cosmos" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, free, 5:30-7:30pm

Nan Goldin "Nine Self-Portraits" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Maria Park "Composition" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Tom Burckhardt "Cast Paintings" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7:30pm

+ Laeh Glenn "Ordinary Objects" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, free, 5:30-7:30pm

Ai Weiwei, David Nash, David Simpson, Kota Ezawa, Leslie Shows, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Patsy Krebs, Pierre Cordier & Gundi Falk, Zhan Wang, Zheng Chongbin "Fundamental Abstraction III" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Laurie Reid, Maysha Mohamedi, Rebecca Morris, Ruby Neri "The Optimists" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Beth Van Hoesen "Portraits from the Castro" at George Krevsky Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Camille Holvoet "A Particularly Picky Perfect Goddess" at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

"Flight" at San Francisco Women Artists
Richmond District: 3489 Sacramento St., 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, January 10

Artist Talk: "Elisheva Biernoff in conversation with Lori Starr" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, Free with museum admission, 1-2:15pm

+ Performance: Charlie Woolley, Leslie Kulesh "We all live downstream: a performance" at Et al.
Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, free, 8pm

Christopher Russell, Gail Dawson, Nif Hodgson, Ted Anderson "Transitions" curated by Todd Lanam at Mark Wolfe Contemporary
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, free, 5:30-8pm

Erin Colleen, Jessica Hankey "Jessica Hankey and Erin Colleen Show at Adobe Books" curated by Calcagno Cullen at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3130 24th Street, 6-9pm

Mathew Zefeldt, Niv Bavarsky, Samuel Hayes, Will Reed "Figure Ground" curated by Gideon Chase at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 5-8 pm

FRITZ CHESNUT "Purr Valley" at CULT
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, free, 7-10pm

+ Rhonda Holberton at CULT
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, free, 7-10pm

Karen Barbour "No Should Be As Friendly As Yes" at Fouladi Projects
Hayes Valley: 1803 Market Street, 6-8pm

3 Fish Studios, Archie's Press, Christina Song, Derek Macario, Emily Proud, Erica Sirotich, Forest and Waves, Hero Design, Jennifer Maravillas, Julia Lucey, Katrina Zapaala, Kehau Lyons "California Printed" at Rare Device
Western Addition: 600 Divisadero Street, 6-8pm

Saturday, January 11

Abby Leigh "Abby Leigh: Works 2011/2013" curated by Jarrett Earnest at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 6-8pm

Adrienne Simms, Caitlin Hackett, David Fenton, Lee Harvey Roswell, Len Davis, Pee Monster "BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR" at Bash Contemporary
Tenderloin: 210 Golden Gate Avenue, Free, 6-9pm

"The Tools: Second Saturday January 2014" at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, Free, 7-10pm

Nina Katchadourian "Two Libraries: Recently Sorted Books" at Catharine Clark Gallery
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 12-5pm

Edith Hillinger, Elena Zolotnitsky, Sharon Shepherd at SFMOMA Artists Gallery (Fort Mason Center)
Marina District: Building A, 3-5pm

Genevieve Quick "Vertical Vistas" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7-10pm

Preview: "Richmond Art Center Winter Exhibitions" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Free, 11-5pm

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