Some hot summerish days have snuck into our spring making it a great time to get out and about for first Thursday and/or first Friday, each has a ton of exhibitions opening or recently opened to catch in one fell swoop.

If you can drag yourself from the various bbqs and other outdoors activities over the weekend, Saturday there are a couple of interesting shows.
 
In San Francisco the second project at c2c featuring east coast artist Jason Karolak and west coaster Andy Vogt. 
 
In Oakland, Lindsey Lyons, Sean Monaghan and Maysha Mohamedi (whose work in a recent Stephen Wirtz show was a stand-out in great company) are in a show at Maniac Gallery (a space I've yet to visit).
 
And Sunday, don't miss the next lecture in the 'doubt it/talk' series curated by Kait Mooney at n/a in Oakland: no place: anthea black on queer geographies and spatial politics 

Tuesday:

+ Lecture: Isaac Julien "Lecture" at California College of the Arts (CCA)

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Thursday:
+ Clare Rojas "Caerulea" at Gallery Paule Anglim

Saturday:
+ Andy Vogt, Jason Karolak "c2c project space 2nd installation" curated by Kirk Stoller at c2c project space
+ Lindsey Lyons, Maysha Mohamedi, Sean Monaghan "Hemp Necklace" at Maniac Gallery

Sunday:
+ Lisa Radon "The Plumb and The Wave" at Pied-à-terre
+ Lecture: "doubt it / talk series presents 'no place: anthea black on queer geographies and spatial politics'" curated by Kait Mooney at n/a
+ David Janesko, Dawn Weleski, Dru Anderson, Floris Schönfeld, May Wilson, Nyssa Zinn, Simon Pyle "Collective Disturbances: 2013-2014 Graduate Fellows Exhibition" curated by Xiaoyu Weng at Headlands Center for the Arts

Tuesday, April 29

+ Lecture: Isaac Julien "Lecture" at California College of the Arts (CCA) Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 7-9pm

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Thursday, May 1

Jaimie Warren "2014 Baum Award Exhibition" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 1011 Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Clare Rojas "Caerulea" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Mike Henderson "Traces of Places" at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Ala Ebtekar "Parallax" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Lydia Panas "Falling from Grace..." at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Hiroshi Sugimoto "Acts of God" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Christian Maychak "split states" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5-7:30pm

Chuck Close, Diana Al-Hadid, Ellsworth Kelly, Julie Mehretu, Mark di Suvero, Peter Doig, Robert Longo, Roxy Paine, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Messenger, Spencer Finch, Willem de Kooning, William Cordova "Four Decades: Drawings and Works on Paper" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Katina Huston "Nothing Comes From Nothing" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, Free, 5:30-7:30pm

Bruce Davidson "Time of Change" at Robert Koch Gallery
Bernal Heights: 0 49 Geary Street, Grant St., floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Chris Palmer, Goran Konjevad, Jeremy Shaefer, Linda Mihara, Vanessa Gould "Movement In Paper: The Evolving Form of Origami" curated by Carolyn Ho, June Sakamoto, Vicky Mihara Avery at The Art Gallery at Cesar Chavez Student Center
Sunset: 1650 Holloway Avenue, floor 2, FREE, 5-8pm

Friday, May 2

Benefit: Flaming Lotus Girls "SOMATIC" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $10 Minimum Donation Recommended, 8pm-2am

Anthony Tablizo, Aziz Yonuss, Biagio Scarpello, Brian S. Canfield, Chico Coelho, Chiyomi McKibbin, Chris Cook, Dan Fenstermacher, David Samuel Metcalf, David Schonhoff, Debi Ling, Dorothy Lin, Elena Shevtsova, Eliana Cetto, Eric Jacobson, Felix Francisco Quintana, Gabriel Martinez, Isaac S. Lewin, Jonny Alexander, Joon Park, Kristian Talley, Kyle Campbell, Lisa Banks, Luis Silva, Maggie Hibert, Marshall Elliott, Martin Segobia, Nathan Cox, Nicole Ravicchio, Ron Myers, Siavash Almeida, Silvie Deutsch, Thomas Sanders, Wendy Wolman-Ledner "Beyond Structure" curated by Alfonso Cosio, Jason Mitchell, Lenore Chinn, Michael Cuffe, Renee Baldocchi, Robert Melton, Ron Turner, Ryan Carrington, Stacey Ransom at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5-11:30pm

Jack Wright "A Unified Theory of Painting" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 6-9pm

"At the Table" at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5-9pm

Carol Inez Charney, Counterpoint Studio, Danae Falliers, Diane Rosenblum, Richard Koci Hernandez "New Directions in Photography" at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1, 5-7pm

Amelia Konow "Wrapped Up in the Cloud" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 7-10pm

Craig Dorety, Jim Campbell "Division" curated by Kimberly Johnasson at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, free, 5-8pm

Saturday, May 3

Michele Théberge "The Sky Touches Every World" at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 4-7pm, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Andy Vogt, Jason Karolak "c2c project space 2nd installation" curated by Kirk Stoller at c2c project space
Potrero Hill: 1695 18th Street, #413, 6-9pm

Joshua Hagler, Maja Ruznic "Among the Missing" at Jack Fischer Gallery
Potrero Hill: 311 Potrero Avenue, 5:30-7:30pm

Andrew Belschner "Water + Color" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

Peter Alexander "The Color of Light" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Potrero Hill: 248 Utah Street, 4-6pm

+ Lindsey Lyons, Maysha Mohamedi, Sean Monaghan "Hemp Necklace" at Maniac Gallery
Oakland: 610 16th Street, Suite 420, 7-9pm

Rory Terrell, Teilor Good "Oil and Earth" at FLOAT Gallery
Oakland: 1091 Calcot Place, #116, 6-9pm

Dave Young Kim, David Mohr, Gwynessa Balvanz, Heather Engen, Kate Rhoades, Kelsey Thorne, Lucienne Silva, Margaret Lawless, Sarah Beckstrom, Susan L. Sternberg, Veva Edelson, William Koone "Mixed Messages: 2014 Mills College MFA Exhibition" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: The Breakfast Group--Carol Ladewig "Jive and Java with the Breakfast Group Artists" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, 11am-1pm

Sunday, May 4

Performance: Jesse Sugarmann "We Build Excitement Closing Ceremonies" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 2-4pm

+ Lisa Radon "The Plumb and The Wave" at Pied-à-terre
Richmond District: 600 2nd Avenue, 6-8pm

Closing reception: "It's Alive" at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 3 - 6pm

+ Lecture: "doubt it / talk series presents 'no place: anthea black on queer geographies and spatial politics'" curated by Kait Mooney at n/a
Oakland: 4304 West Street, 3:00-5:00 pm

+ David Janesko, Dawn Weleski, Dru Anderson, Floris Schönfeld, May Wilson, Nyssa Zinn, Simon Pyle "Collective Disturbances: 2013-2014 Graduate Fellows Exhibition" curated by Xiaoyu Weng at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, 12-5pm

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