It’s a quiet pre-summer, post holiday, late month week around town. Highlights include Important Projects on Saturday (Chelsea Culp / Alex Mackin Dolan & Jasper Spicero) and K.R.M. Mooney at n/a opening on Sunday. 

A few last words on Art Market … I received plenty of feedback about this year’s fair. It says something that so many top tier galleries felt more inclined to take a risk on a fair half-filled with furniture (FOG) than to do Art Market. Art Market has multiple audiences, while it certainly wants to seem legitimate amongst artists, curators and the like who don’t buy work, its primary audience is collectors, whose opinion is gauged in terms of sales, so whether it was a success in these terms is hard to tell. Amongst those who I spoke to, the standouts were Johansson Projects, CULT, Romer Young, Ever Gold and Steven Wolf. No one I talked to mentioned any of the visiting galleries (except for curiosity RH Contemporary), and generally most I heard from were disappointed with the quality of the art on display with a few blue chip exceptions outside of the aforementioned galleries. 

Wednesday:
+ A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting, Chris Sollars, Constance Hockaday, Marie Lorenz, Paul Cesewski "Off Shore" at Southern Exposure
+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Lana Williams & Josh Minkus" at Real Time & Space

Thursday:

+ Todd Lavine "A Transmission, Interrupted" at 1038

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+ Todd Lavine "A Transmission, Interrupted" at 1038
+ Amy M. Ho, Andrew Connelly, Ben Bigelow, Brian Barr, Corey Escoto, Cybele Lyle, James Sterling Pitt, John Davis, Tammy Rae Carland "Para-Apparatus" at Kala Art Institute

Friday:
+ Cybele Lyle "The Moon Is Slowly Rising" at Et al.

Saturday:
+ Andy Coolquitt, Christopher Davison, Dean Schneider, Mie Horlyk Mogensen, Renee Rhodes "Everyday Zeal" curated by Alter Space at Alter Space
+ Claire Colette "small moves in strange rooms" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
+ Alex Mackin Dolan, Jasper Spicero "Day For Night" at Important Projects
+ Chelsea Culp "In the Flesh" at Important Projects

Sunday:
+ Chris Sollars "Off Shore: Islais Creek Walk" at Southern Exposure
+ k.r.m. mooney "understudy" at n/a

Wednesday, May 28

+ A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting, Chris Sollars, Constance Hockaday, Marie Lorenz, Paul Cesewski "Off Shore" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Lana Williams & Josh Minkus" at Real Time & Space
Oakland: 125 10th Street, free, 7pm

Thursday, May 29

+ Todd Lavine "A Transmission, Interrupted" at 1038 Haight Ashbury: 1038 Clayton Street, 6-9pm

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+ Todd Lavine "A Transmission, Interrupted" at 1038
Haight Ashbury: 1038 Clayton Street, 6-9pm

+ Amy M. Ho, Andrew Connelly, Ben Bigelow, Brian Barr, Corey Escoto, Cybele Lyle, James Sterling Pitt, John Davis, Tammy Rae Carland "Para-Apparatus" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, free, 6-8pm

Friday, May 30

+ Cybele Lyle "The Moon Is Slowly Rising" at Et al.
Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 7-10pm

Cybele Lyle "The Moon Is Slowly Rising" at Et al. Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 7-10pm

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Evie Leder "The Objects" at ASC Projects
Mission District: 3150 18th Street, #104 (entrance on T, 7-9pm

Auction: "Paving the Way - Mosaic Tile Paver Auction" at ACCI Gallery
Berkeley: 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Bids start at $10, 6-8pm

Saturday, May 31

Carrie Sinclair Katz "Powder Room" curated by Alter Space at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, free, 7-10pm

+ Andy Coolquitt, Christopher Davison, Dean Schneider, Mie Horlyk Mogensen, Renee Rhodes "Everyday Zeal" curated by Alter Space at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, free, 7-10pm

Caitlin Hackett, Dave Correia, Robert Bowen "Dark Matters" at Bash Contemporary
Tenderloin: 210 Golden Gate Avenue, 6-9pm

Screening: João Wainer, Roberto T. Oliveira "Saturday Screening Series: Pixo" curated by Marcelo Cidade at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 2pm and 5pm

+ Claire Colette "small moves in strange rooms" at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 4-7 PM

+ Alex Mackin Dolan, Jasper Spicero "Day For Night" at Important Projects
Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, 6-9pm

+ Chelsea Culp "In the Flesh" at Important Projects
Oakland: 5432 Boyd Avenue, floor 2, 6-9pm

Sunday, June 1

+ Chris Sollars "Off Shore: Islais Creek Walk" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , Free, 10:30am-3:30pm

+ k.r.m. mooney "understudy" at n/a
Oakland: 4304 West Street, 8-11pm

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