If the images of her recent shows at Metro Pictures and MOCA Cleveland is any guide (and from the press images, it seems like they are), the show opening Thursday at Altman Siegel of Sara VanDerBeek's work, Ancient Objects, Still Lives, will be very good. 

Her 2010 show at Altman Siegel featured a similar focus on peculiar, often geometric objects photographed in simple, still life compositions. But where as that show kept the color palette limited but relatively realistic, the new works illustrate objects in a strange violet-hued space; they read almost like cgi. I'll be glad to see these new pieces in person Thursday.

Thursday:
+ Sara VanDerBeek "Ancient Objects, Still Lives" at Altman Siegel

Friday:
+ Ben Bigelow, David Bayus "Sights and Sounds of Stage and Screen" at City Limits

Monday:
+ "The Riso Book: San Francisco" at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday, June 5

Christine Elfman "Fix & Fade" at Gallery Wendi Norris
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 6-8pm

Val Britton "Passage" at Gallery Wendi Norris
SOMA: 161 Jessie Street, first floor, 6-8pm

Guillermo Bert "Incubator" at The McLoughlin Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94108, Second Floor, 6-8pm

William Odiorne "William Odiorne's Paris" at Robert Tat Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Anne Appleby, Bruce Conner, Canan Tolan, David Ireland , Dean Smith, Frances Stark, Gay Outlaw, Jess, Joan Brown, John Priola, Lynn Hershman, Paul Kos, Robert Bechtle, Tom Marioni "Summer in Black & White" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Andrew Masullo, Barry McGee, David Ireland , Dean Byington , Katherine Sherwood, Tony Oursler "...And Color" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Sara VanDerBeek "Ancient Objects, Still Lives" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Marc Katano "Angels' Share" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Bernadette Jiyong Frank "Spaces in Between" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Nicholas Wilton "Off to Sea" at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Rachel Sager "Object Impermanence" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Alfred Vidaurri, Angela Dalinger, Brett Amory, Chad Hasegawa, Clorophilla, Don’t Fret, Dustin Fosnot, Harley Lafarrah Eaves, Justin Hagar, Luke Pelletier, Michelle Guintu, Rye Purvis, Sean Newport, Shawn Whisenant, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Yarrow Slaps "Champagne" curated by Yarrow Slaps at Verge Center for the Arts
Sacramento: 625 S Street, $5.00 general, free to members, 6-9pm

Alfred Vidaurri, Angela Dalinger, Brett Amory, Chad Hasegawa, Clorophilla, Don’t Fret, Dustin Fosnot, Harley Lafarrah Eaves, Justin Hagar, Luke Pelletier, Michelle Guintu, Rye Purvis, Sean Newport, Shawn Whisenant, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Yarrow Slaps "Champagne" curated by Yarrow Slaps at Verge Center for the Arts
Sacramento: 625 S Street, $5.00 general, free to members, 6-9pm

Friday, June 6

Book Signing: Andy Freeberg, W.M. Hunt "Art Fare Book Release" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 1011 Market Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Adam Caldwell, AJ Fosik, Alicia Martin Lopez, Amanda Elizabeth Joseph, Andreas Englund, Brin Levinson, Caleb Brown, Christine Wu, Denis Peterson, Derek Gores, Eric Alos, Erin M Riley, Jamie Vasta, Joel Daniel Phillips, Johnny Ruzzo, Karen Ann Myers, Lucien Shapiro, Michael Page, Michael Reedy, Michael Ward, Miju, Orlando Sanchez, William Wray "Empty Kingdom" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, 5pm-late

Frank Lobdell "Frank Lobdell: A Celebratory Exhibition" at Hackett Mill
Downtown: 201 Post Street, STE 1000, 5-7pm

Jonathan Koshi, Molly McGrath "Synthesis" at Secession Art & Design
Castro: 3361 Mission Street, 6:30-9:30pm

Gordon Glasgow, Iris Polos "Us" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, 6-9pm

Tressa Pack "Fictions" curated by Suzanne L'Heureux at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)
Oakland: 486 49th Street, 6-9pm

"East Bay Open Studios" at Pro Arts
Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, Free, 6-8pm

+ Ben Bigelow, David Bayus "Sights and Sounds of Stage and Screen" at City Limits
Oakland: 300 Jefferson Street, 7-11pm

Alyssa Lempesis, Brett Davis, Daniel Harano, Jacob Greenlund, Jamie Dunn, Jeff King, Joyce Nojima, Rachel Gelenius "For Future Reference: 2014 UC Davis MFA Exhibition" at Nelson Gallery at UC Davis (Nelson Hall)
Davis: 1 Shields Avenue, floor 1, 5:30-7:30pm

Saturday, June 7

Michael Maxwell "The Span Of My Attention" curated by Paul Urich at Nowheresville
Mission District: 483 14th Street, 6-9pm

Screening: Kleber Mendonça Filho "Saturday Screening Series: O Som ao Redor, by Recife Frio" curated by Marcelo Cidade at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 2pm and 4:30pm

Andrea Belag, Chris Martin, Clare Grill, Clinton King, Farrell Brickhouse, Jason Stopa, Julie Torres, Katherine Bradford, Mike Olin, Paul DeMuro, Paul Pagk, Saira Mclaren, Sharon Butler, Wendy White "Brooklyn Bridge" curated by Justine Frischmann at George Lawson Gallery
Potrero Hill: 315 Potrero Avenue, 5-7pm

Natalya Burd, Sarah Ratchye "For Love and Glory" at Jack Fischer Gallery
Potrero Hill: 311 Potrero Avenue, 4-7pm

PK Frizzell "La Sombra" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 5-7pm

Mary Curtis Ratcliff "Eye to Eye" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 5-7pm

Monday, June 9

+ "The Riso Book: San Francisco" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 5:30-7:30pm

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