Its a pretty quiet week out there.. I suggest seeing Rick Prelinger at the CCA Wattis on Friday, and Courtney Johnson, Maysha Mohamedi, Sarah Hotchkiss in Folding the Blanket of Time at Park Life also that night. I loved Mohamedi's work in the recent Stephen Wirtz show, and Hotchkiss's in the current show at Pro Arts in Oakland, so I'm excited about this grouping. 

Closures! Disasters! The art scene in peril! A few points.

1. Rent is too damn high. Not just for artists. The city has some major issues which need to be addressed by all. Let's fight against the Ellis act and not loose our focus worrying about Google Glass or expensive toast. Let's quit preaching to the choir and do something. 

2. Let's tell the whole story, not just skip key details to suit our narrative. Saying 'there has been no surge of new spaces to fill [the recent closure's] absences' is patently false. But to think that the dozen+ project spaces and galleries recently open can take the closed spaces' place is also incorrect (however optimistic I am about their collective potential)

3. Want to do something to help the scene survive? GO TO MORE SHOWS AT A VARIETY OF SPACES. New and old, ones that show established artists and scrappy one-night affairs, all wish for more people through the door. Here's hoping making art viewing a priority is contagious.

 

Tuesday:
+ Emily Tareila "How to Finish A Thought: Exercises in Thinking" at Little Paper Planes

Wednesday:
+ "If There Ever Was" curated by Robert Blackson at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:
+ Book launch: Katy Grannan "The 99" at Fraenkel Gallery

Friday:
+ Lecture: Rick Prelinger "Appropriation: Is it Finished? A Manifesto" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
+ Courtney Johnson, Maysha Mohamedi, Sarah Hotchkiss "Folding the Blanket of Time" at Park Life

Saturday:
+ Book launch: LAND & SEA "OVERVIEW Release Gathering" at Et al.

Tuesday, March 11

Lecture: "SFAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Karin Sander" 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

+ Emily Tareila "How to Finish A Thought: Exercises in Thinking" at Little Paper Planes
Mission District: 855 Valencia Street, 6-8pm

Wednesday, March 12

Barbara Kronlins, Jamie Brunson at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ "If There Ever Was" curated by Robert Blackson at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 6-8pm

Adriana Camarena, Alejandra Rassvetaieff, Anna Simson, Camila Perez-Goddard, Carmen Lang, Clara Cheeves, Cristina Ibarra, Fan Warren, Flor Khan, Gabriela Luz Sierra, Indira Urrutia, Mariella Zevallos, Marta R, Melanie Lacy Kusters, Natalia Anciso, Rebeca García Gonzales, Sofía Elías, Solange Bonilla Leahy, Susana Aragón, Tanya Marie Vlach, Tina Escaja, Windsong, Ximena Sosa, Xuchi Eggleton, Yolanda Lopez, Zabaleta "27th Solo Mujeres Exhibit" curated by Indira Urrutia, Susana Aragón at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, 7-10pm

Artist Talk: "Approaching Zero - At the Frontier of Contemporary Printmaking" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Katsutoshi Yuasa, Kouseki Ono "Approaching Zero - Artist Talk" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 7pm

Thursday, March 13

John Chiara "John Chiara: de tached" at Haines Gallery Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

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+ Book launch: Katy Grannan "The 99" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Panel Discussion: Anthony Huberman, Josh Tonsfeldt, McArthur Binion, Thomas Eggerer "Above and Below the Surface" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, free, RSVP by March 10 to becky@berggruen.com, 6pm

Charles Arnoldi "New Paintings" at Modernism Inc.
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-8pm

Mark Ulriksen "Irrational Exuberance" at Modernism Inc.
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, 7:30-8pm

Friday, March 14

Open Studio: "A Major Minority" at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, free, 6:30-9:30pm

+ Lecture: Rick Prelinger "Appropriation: Is it Finished? A Manifesto" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, free, 7-9pm

+ Courtney Johnson, Maysha Mohamedi, Sarah Hotchkiss "Folding the Blanket of Time" at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, 6-9pm

Lecture: Moshe Mahler "Abstractal: Artist Talk and Installation by Moshe Mahler, Disney Research" at Norton Factory Studios
Oakland: 3098 E. 10th Street, Free, 6-8pm

Saturday, March 15

Yulia Pinkusevich "Thresholds: Shadow Self" at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

+ Book launch: LAND & SEA "OVERVIEW Release Gathering" at Et al.
Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, free, 6-9pm

Adam Caldwell "History Factory" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Chad Hasegawa "Elite Rebels" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, 7-11pm

Adele Renault "Les Clochards Célestes" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, 7-11pm

Adam Ziskie, Amanda Marie, Andrea Heimer, Anthony Lister, Apex , Bec Winnel, Ben Clarke, Brock Brake, C215, C3, Casey Gray, Charmaine Olivia, Chazme, Cleon Peterson, Cope 2, Cyrcle, Dan Tague, David Marc Grant, David Soukup, Duncan Jago, EINE, Ernesto Yerena, Faith 47, Ferris Plock, Greg Gossel, Helen Bayly, Indie 184, Jeremiah Kille, John Felix Arnold III, Jon Fox, Joseph Martinez, Justin Kerson, Kelly Tunstall , Lauren Napolitano, Marco Rea, Mark Warren Jacques, Mary Iverson, Mauricio Garrido, Melanie Alves, Meryl Pataky, Mike Davis, Mike Shine, Niels Shoe Meulman, Peter Gronquist, Pixel Pancho, Poesia, Porkchop (Michael Lavalee), Remi Rough, Robert Christian Malmberg, Rone, Sergio Garcia, Sergio Lopez, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, STEN & LEX, Ted Lincoln, Tes One, the Clayton Brothers, the Low Bros, Vhils, Victor Castillo, Word to Mother, Yumiko Kayukawa "An Even Eleven" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, 7-11pm

Martin Facey "Excavation - Patterns in Time" at Paul Mahder Gallery
Richmond District: 3378 Sacramento Street, free, 6-8pm

Josie Iselin "The Secret Life of Seaweed" at Inclusions Gallery
Bernal Heights: 627 Cortland Avenue, 5-7pm

Tour: "3rd Saturday Guided Gallery District Tour: Drawing" curated by Dasha Matsuura at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, FREE, 2-4pm

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