Its the end of this short month, so openings are few and far between, with two I recommend highly, Thursday Julian Hoeber at fused space (a project I've not been to yet), and Friday Kirk Stoller at Romer Young Gallery, a gallery I love but often overlook. 

I'll post my long, very positive review of the current So Ex show below, and if you've not seen it yet there is an event with Carrie Hott and Laura Steenberge titled 'Fathoming a Cave' which I imagine will be great.

Curiously Direct Pick
Southern Exposure//White Hot Lamp Black= This is a must see, an excellent group exhibition making good with what would seem to be too common a theme, " the distant edges of our perception: shadows, bright light, dark space and deep holes" I didn't see the whole thing; for instance Jeremiah Barber's performance happened another day, but what I did see was very good. Carrie Hott has two excellent bodies of work present, one, a set of sculptures which tease excellent abstraction out of Hott's research-based practice, and a video work in which a text about the history of lighting and its opposite is read over archival images and images of Hott's work. Hillary Wiedemann also has great works here, presenting two photo-based projects involving the hard to wrap one's mind around idea of sunrise on Mars, and a video in which home-made telescope optics wreak havoc on the sensor of a digital camera. The urge and denial of our instinct to capture and record is key to these strong works. The incidental shots of concert lighting in Dario Robleto’s photos taken by fans trying to capture a concert work along similar lines and are nice, but their faux-polaroid presentation seems forced and unnecessary, muddying what is I think a strong set of images. Definitely worth a visit.

Wednesday:
+ Screening: Adam Curtis "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:
+ Lecture: "SFAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Alice Channer" at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Julian Hoeber "Inners" curated by Jessica Silverman at Fused Space

Friday:
+ Performance: Carrie Hott, Laura Steenberge "Fathoming a Cave" at Southern Exposure
+ Kirk Stoller "Thrown A Curve" at Romer Young Gallery

Tuesday, February 25

Charles Byrne, DeWitt Cheng, Janet Delaney, Jason Tannen, Leo vanMunching, Mark Citret, Steven Brock, Yelena Zhavoronkova "Now that You're Gone...San Francisco Neighborhoods Without Us" curated by Meg Shiffler, Thom Sempere at SF Arts Commission Gallery (City Hall)
Civic Center: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, 5:30-7:30pm

Wednesday, February 26

+ Screening: Adam Curtis "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, free, 6pm

Haddad Drugan "Bayview Rise" curated by Port of San Francisco at Port of San Francisco Dogpatch: Cargo Way and Third Street, 5:30 pm

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Screening: "On Throwing a Film Festival: Program B" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, 7-9pm

Nora Grant, Suzanne Herrera Li Puma "Abet of my Alphabet" at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 116 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, 0, 4-7pm

Thursday, February 27

+ Lecture: "SFAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Alice Channer" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, Free and open to the public, VAS Social Hour: 6:30 pm | Lecture: 7:30 pm

+ Julian Hoeber "Inners" curated by Jessica Silverman at Fused Space
Potrero Hill: 1401 16th Street, 6-8pm

Friday, February 28

+ Performance: Carrie Hott, Laura Steenberge "Fathoming a Cave" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , Free, 7-9pm

+ Kirk Stoller "Thrown A Curve" at Romer Young Gallery
Dogpatch: 1240 22nd Street, 6-9pm

Saturday, March 1

Bex Freund "The Bottled Nova Must Feed Still" at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

Panel Discussion: "James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007" at Cartoon Art Museum
SOMA: 655 Mission Street, $7, 7:30-9:30pm

John Kilduff "Very Good Plus (VG+) , John Kilduff and A Record is a Record (Superior Viaduct Pop-Up Shop)" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, free, 6-9pm

Marco Casentini "Up and Down" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Walter Robinson "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" at Catharine Clark Gallery
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Dominic Alleluia, Susan Alleluia "Breaking News" at Random Parts Oakland: 1206 13 avenue, 4-7pm

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Dickson Schneider "Supply and Demand" at tmoro projects
Santa Clara: 1046 Sherman Street, 3-5pm

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