The Kuchar brothers hold a special place in my mind. In the late 90's I took George Kuchar's class at SFAI and it was, well, life changing. Guests streamed into and out of the studio, old instrumental lounge records played and the camera rolled as we collectively made a movie. The details of that film are quite hazy, something to do with the chupacabra, but having spent my whole childhood carefully honing the craft of drawing and painting, slowly and alone, the communal, freeform way the work came into being was a revelation to me.

Artists Television Access will be screening new works by Mike Kuchar on Thursday and two of George's 'Weather Diary' pieces on Friday. George's lengthy filmography and Mike's still expanding body of work are full of strange, sometimes psychedelic and often extremely personal gems. This (and any) screening of their works is highly recommended.

Tuesday:
+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Zachary Davis and Conrad Guevara" at Real Time & Space
+ Screening: Jim Melchert, Mark Thompson, Stephen Laub, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha "Headspace: Conceptual Film and Video" curated by Tanya Zimbardo at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday:
+ Robert Zhao Renhui "An evening with Robert Zhao Renhui" at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:

+ Shiyuan Liu "Alter-Circuit: Shiyuan Liu, My Paper Knife" at Et al.

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+ Screening: Mike Kuchar "Mike Kuchar: New & Recent Works" at A.T.A.

Friday:
+ Screening: George Kuchar "George Kuchar: "Storm Squatter"" at A.T.A.
+ Lisa Jonas Taylor "Exterior Space Simulation" at City Limits

Saturday:
+ Artist Talk: Shiyuan Liu "Alter-Circuit: Shiyuan Liu - Artist Talk" at Et al.

Tuesday, September 23

"Water Work" curated by Rachel Wardenberg at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Campus Center Galleries, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Zachary Davis and Conrad Guevara" at Real Time & Space
Oakland: 125 10th Street, free, 7pm

+ Screening: Jim Melchert, Mark Thompson, Stephen Laub, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha "Headspace: Conceptual Film and Video" curated by Tanya Zimbardo at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 116 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, Free and open to the public, 7:30 pm

Wednesday, September 24

+ Robert Zhao Renhui "An evening with Robert Zhao Renhui" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, 6-8pm

Thursday, September 25

+ Shiyuan Liu "Alter-Circuit: Shiyuan Liu, My Paper Knife" at Et al. Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 7-10pm

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Artist Talk: "Sidewalk Chat with Michael Arcega and Kevin Chen" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 155 Grove Street, 6-7:30pm

Workshop: Ala Ebtekar, Ali Dadgar, Amir Fallah, Amitis Motevalli, Arash Fayez, Azin Seraj, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Haleh Niazmand, Hushidar Mortezaie, Morehshin Allahyari, Sanaz Mazinani, Taravat Talepasand "Theory of Survival: Fabrications Night Market" curated by Taraneh Hemami at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 6-9pm

Ala Ektekar, Anna Boghiguian, Kevin B. Chen, Moshin Shafi, Saamia Vine, Toby Millman "Bookish Intimacies" at a.Muse Gallery
Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 6-9:30pm

+ Screening: Mike Kuchar "Mike Kuchar: New & Recent Works" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 8pm

Reading: "Writers Series: Reading by Ru Freeman" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 195 De Haro Street, Writers' Studio, Free, 4:30-6 pm

Screening: Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal "Reel to Real Films: Watermark" at David Brower Center
Berkeley: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 , Ground Floor, $10 Advance / $12 Door / $5 Students & Teachers, 7pm

Friday, September 26

Barbara Obata, Cathy Lu, Charlene Tan, Christie Yuri Noh, Daniel Chen, Lana Dandan, Laura Kim, Lisa Hsia, Marya Krogstad, Moonyoung Sung, Nancy Otto Maya Smira, Samira Hashemi, Victoria Jang, Vincent Yin, Yerin Kim, Yuki Maruyama "APATURE" curated by Alex Wang, Melanie Elvena, Mido Lee, Pamela Ybañez, Wenxin Zhang at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street, 6-10pm

All welcome to pin photos to the wall "Pin-Up Show" at Dickerman Prints
SOMA: 1141 Howard Street, FREE, 6-9pm

"The Art of The Boxtrolls" at Cartoon Art Museum
SOMA: 655 Mission Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Lecture: "Graduate Lecture Series: Matthew Goulish" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, free, 4:30 pm

+ Screening: George Kuchar "George Kuchar: "Storm Squatter"" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 8pm

Jeremy Rourke, Samuel Levi Jones, Shushan Tesfuzigta "Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 5-9

+ Lisa Jonas Taylor "Exterior Space Simulation" at City Limits
Oakland: 300 Jefferson Street, 7-11pm

Amanda Klimek, Ann Weber, Dennis Leon, Joanna Kidd, Lauren O'Connor-Korb, Matthew Scheatzle, Nina Lyons, Peter Dreyfuss, Shawn Hibma-Cronan, Stephanie Robison, Wayne Shaffer "Sculpture Garden at Harvest Inn by Charlie Palmer" curated by Amanda Klimek at Harvest Inn by Charlie Palmer
St. Helena: 1 Main Street, 5-7pm

Saturday, September 27

Jenny Muskopf, Nellie King Solomon "12 of Our 84 Possible Past Lives" at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1, free, 7-10pm

Screening: "Special Screening: 'Sol LeWitt' by Chris Teerink" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, $10 general / $6 YBCA and SFC Members, Senior, Teacher, Student, 7:30pm Saturday ; 2 & 4pm Sunday

John Santoro "Point of Departure - Landscape Paintings" at Paul Theibaud Gallery
North Beach: 645 Chestnut Street, 3-5pm

+ Artist Talk: Shiyuan Liu "Alter-Circuit: Shiyuan Liu - Artist Talk" at Et al.
Chinatown: 620 Kearny Street, 4-6pm

Jeremy Rourke, Samuel Levi Jones, Shushan Tesfuzigta "Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Exhibitions" at Recology San Francisco Art Studio ( SF Recycling & Disposal's Artist in Residence Studio )
South San Francisco: 503 Tunnel Avenue, free, 1-3pm

Chris Komater "A Bouquet of Bears & A Dozen Little Roses" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 4-6pm

Kerry Vander Meer "syzygy" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, 4-6pm

Charles Boyd, Cheryll May Macintyre, Craig Riedel, Darcy Vasudev, Hannah Woebkenberg, Ian G. Fabre, J.B. MacKinnon, Jeff Ritter, Lucciana Caselli, Marty McCorkle, Sam Breach, Susan Tuttle, Thomas Lindahl Robinson, Wendy McDermott "Shock and awe" at FLOAT Gallery
Oakland: 1091 Calcot Place, #116, 6-9pm

Sunday, September 28

Richard Diebenkorn "Renee Bott: Printing With Diebenkorn" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Free, 1:30 - 3pm

Monday, September 29

Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Katrín Sigurdardóttir" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, free, 7:30 pm

Lecture: Maya Lin "Maya Lin Lecture" at David Brower Center
Berkeley: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 , Ground Floor, $10 suggested donation, 7:30pm

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