Its a relatively quiet week around town. The show I'm most excited about is hiding on the other side of the weekend. Alley Cat Books has dedicated a large chunk of their current real estate to an art space, and it has held all manner of exhibitions back there. Ajit Chauhan and Colter Jacobsen, both represented by commercial galleries, have chosen this space for a two person show and I can't wait to see what they do. Both artists have bookish practices, using paper, poetry and narrative in deeply personal ways, so a book store feels a very appropriate site for them to inhabit. 

Friday:
+ Artist Talk: Amy M. Ho, Carrie Hott "Amy M. Ho and Carrie Hott in conversation" at Et al.
+ Carissa Potter "Hold Me Like Before: An exhibition by Carissa Potter & You" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Monday:
+ Ajit Chauhan, Colter Jacobsen at Alley Cat Books

Wednesday, August 6

Mission Voices Summer Youth Artists "We Took Over the City" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 5-7pm

Thursday, August 7

Defer, Kamea "Paradise Lost" at 1AM Gallery
SOMA: 1000 Howard Street, FREE, 6:30-9:30pm

Ben Butler, Kiki Gaffney, Leigh Anne Lester, Tracey Adams "OUTSIDE / IN" at K. Imperial Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Peter Steinhauer "Asian Markets" at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Erika Meriaux, Key Weber, Lily Cain, Mitra Fabian "Metamorphosis" curated by Jenna Hans, Sandra Lee at Sandra Lee Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Karl Klingbiel, Matri Somers "Recent Paintings" at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Jeffrey Yip, Robin David "Mythological Bird" at INCLINE Gallery
Mission District: 766 Valencia Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Friday, August 8

+ Artist Talk: Amy M. Ho, Carrie Hott "Amy M. Ho and Carrie Hott in conversation" at Et al.
Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 7-9pm

+ Carissa Potter "Hold Me Like Before: An exhibition by Carissa Potter & You" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 7-10pm

Saturday, August 9

Holly Dargie "Burning Man Wearable Art Costume Bazaar at Make Hang" curated by Aline Dargie at Make Hang
North Beach: 450 Green Street, floor 1, 12-6 pm

Carrie Hott, Erin Colleen Johnson, Kari Marboe, Marisa Jahn, Nathan Lynch, Sahar Khoury, Stacy Martin, Susan O'Malley, Vishal Jugdeo, Ying Zhu "Magical Thinking" curated by Erin Colleen Johnson, Kari Marboe at Root Division
Mid Market: 1059 Market Street, 6-9pm

Pablo Marín (in person) "Southern Lights" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $10, 6:30pm

Izuuk Rigor "Parochial Beacon" at Paolo Mejia Art Gallery
Dogpatch: 4343 3rd Streed, Suite B, 6-9pm

"Everything Must Go!" at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Amy M. Ho, Kana Tanaka "Threshold" curated by Chandra Cerrito at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, Free and open to the public, 3:30-4:30pm

Robert Bauer "Italian Time" at LightRoom Gallery
Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 2-5pm

Chen Yifen, Chiang LiHsiang, Lien Yu, Lin Shaingyuan, Liu Kuo-sung, Luo Zhiying, Wu Peihua, Xu Xiulan, Zhang Meixiang "Rebel as Creator: The Art of Liu Kuo-sung and His Students" at NanHai Art
Millbrae: 510 Broadway, Suite 301, 2-4pm

Sunday, August 10

Amber Crabbe, Barbara Golden, Ethan Rafal, Eva Enriquez, Gabriel Martinez, Isaac Lopez, Johanna Poethig (WIGband), Katherine Rhoades, Maru Hoeber, Michael Barrett, Nick Randhawa, Nicki Green, Rebecca Foster, Renae Barnard, Robbin Henderson, Ryan Carrington, Sanaz Sarabi "Soapbox: A Berkeley Art Center Juried Exhibition" curated by Boots Riley, Steven Wolf at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, FREE, 12-5pm

Monday, August 11

Workshop: "Alternative Exposure Information Session #1" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 6:30 – 8:00 PM

+ Ajit Chauhan, Colter Jacobsen at Alley Cat Books
Mission District: 3034 24th Street, floor 1, 7-9pm

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