Its a first Thursday/first Friday week, but unlike one month ago there are not an overwhelming amount of shows opening. Two highlights (unfortunately on opposite sides of the bay) will be Bonanza VI: Eighteencharacthers at Interface in Oakland and Criminal Intent at Mission: Comics and Art. In these emails I think I’ve suggested all of Bonanza’s shows thus far; they’ve yet to disappoint and I can’t wait to see what they bring to the always interesting Interface. Criminal intent features new work by Matthew Endler, Club Paint and Erin Jane Nelson in the equally consistently good Mission comics space. 

And a side note: my fellow Art Card editor Jackie Im and me (Aaron Harbour) will be hosting a panel as part of Open City / Art City at YBCA on Saturday. The event is huge and complicated. Our talk is in the afternoon; we’ll be joined by Quintessa Matranga (of Mission: Comics and Art), Diego Villalobos (co-director of 1038 in San Francisco) and Anna Sagström (co-director of Minibar in Stockholm). All speaking work at small, peculiar art spaces but instead of discussing these spaces, the idea will be to present something less real, less practical, and more speculative.

Tuesday:
+ Lecture: "Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Manuel Rocha Iturbide" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Aaron Finnis & Jay Atherton" at Real Time & Space

Wednesday:
+ Book launch: "Yes, But Is It Edible?" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)

Friday:
+ Club Paint, Erin Jane Nelson, Matthew Endler "Criminal Intent" at Mission Comics & Arts Gallery
+ Bonanza "Bonanza VI: Eighteencharacters" curated by Suzanne L'Heureux at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)

Tuesday, September 30

Performance: Bill hSu, Birgit ulher, Jacob Felix Heule "audiovisual electroacoustic improvisation" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $7-$10, 8pm

+ Lecture: "Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Manuel Rocha Iturbide" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, free, 7-9pm

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, 5-8pm

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, 5-8pm

+ Artist Talk: "RTS Talks: Aaron Finnis & Jay Atherton" at Real Time & Space
Oakland: 125 10th Street, free, 7pm

Wednesday, October 1

Amanda Hughen , Andrew Schoultz, Arngunnur Yr, Kimberly Rowe, Mary Button Durell, Matt Gill, Michael Arcega, William Swanson "Shift" curated by Heather Marx at The NWBLK
Mission District: 1999 Bryant street, 6-9pm

Hanna Quevedo, Joshua Nissen King "Double Exposure" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 6pm

Lecture: "Four by Four Lecture Series: Tomas Gabdzil Libertiny" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, free, 7:30 pm

+ Book launch: "Yes, But Is It Edible?" at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries)
Potrero Hill: 360 Kansas Street, 7:15pm

Reading: "HearSay Reading Series: Opal Palmer Adisa" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, A2 Cafe, free, 7:30-9pm

Thursday, October 2

Hal Buckner "Process and Progress" at The McLoughlin Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94108, Second Floor, 6-8pm

Ray Turner "Sea Storm Series" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Beth Moon "Diamond Nights" at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Tahiti Pehrson "Light Suspensions" at K. Imperial Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Isca Greenfield-Sanders "Somewhere Else, Somewhere Good" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Chris Dorosz "Tiergarten" at Scott Richards Contemporary Art
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Tom Lieber "Zero Gravity" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Eric Zener at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Annie Kevans "Women and the History of Art" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, October 3

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

Garry Knox Bennett "Full Circle" at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 6-8pm

+ Club Paint, Erin Jane Nelson, Matthew Endler "Criminal Intent" at Mission Comics & Arts Gallery
Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 6-9pm

John Felix Arnold III "No Destination" at FFDG
Mission District: 2277 Mission Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Alberto Toscano, Allison Snopek, Amy Levine, Andreina Davila, Angelo Di Pietrantonio, Ann Marie Hodrick, Beka Brayer, Beth Wellington, Denise Tarantino, Diana Hartman, Dianne Hoffman, Doug Lawler, Glenn Bachmann, Jeanne Hauser, John Kraft, Johnny Botts, Katie Gilmartin, Katie Swan Laich, Marconi Calindas, Maria Rodriguez, Mary Patterson, Maureen Shields, Michael Barbee, Mike Kimball , Richard Dodds, Scott Fin, Solis, Suzane Beaubrun, Tom Heinz "Freak Show" at City Art Gallery
Mission District: 828 Valencia Street, 7-10pm

Romy Randev "Aurora" at Secession Art & Design
Castro: 3361 Mission Street, 6:30-9:30pm

Reading: "Writers Series: Reading by Ben Lerner and Hoa Nguyen" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 195 De Haro Street, Writers' Studio, 4:30-6 pm

Andrew MacRae at Kuhl Frames +Art
Oakland: 412 22nd Street, 6-8pm

Beili Liu , Mari Marks, Sanjay Vora, Tim Rice, Walter James Mansfield "M&M: Material + Meditation" at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, 6-9pm

+ Bonanza "Bonanza VI: Eighteencharacters" curated by Suzanne L'Heureux at Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley)
Oakland: 486 49th Street, 6-9pm

Ehren Tool "One Death Is A Tragedy" curated by Michele Carlson at Pro Arts
Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, Free, 6-8pm

Cate White "2 x 2 Solos: To Live Outside The Law You Must be Honest" curated by Nancy Mizuno Elliott at Pro Arts
Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, Free, 6-8pm

Robert Ray "Chasing History: Observations/Explorations" at Transmission Gallery
Oakland: 770 West Grand Ave., 6-9pm

Francesca Saveri "The Chakrids" curated by Czelena Carter, Jack Mueller at Spacepop
Berkeley: 1645 San Pablo Ave, free, 6-8pm

Saturday, October 4

"Open City/Art City Art and Ideas Festival" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, free, 11am-8pm

Scott Scheidly "The Pinks 2" at Hashimoto Contemporary
Downtown: 804 Sutter St, 6-9pm

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 Saturday Bazaar" curated by Taraneh Hemami at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 12-6pm

Jurgen Trautwein "Skins" at 60SIX
Mission District: 66 Elgin Park, floor 1, 6-8:30pm

Gary Petersen, Seth Koen "4th pairing" curated by Kirk Stoller at c2c project space Potrero Hill: 1695 18th Street, #413, 6-9pm

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Benjamin King, Deborah Zlotsky, Inga Dorosz, Lauren Davies , Sandra Russell "abstraction naturally" curated by Kirk Stoller at c2c project space
Potrero Hill: 1695 18th Street, #413, 6-9pm

Nat Russell "This is the Book I Have Written For You, It Is Important" at Mollusk Surf Shop
Sunset: 4500 Irving Street, 7-10pm

Javier Arce "Doblar la Tierra" at Random Parts Oakland: 1206 13 avenue, 3-7pm

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Adam Donnelly, Amelia Konow, David Janesko "Spaceship Earth" curated by Andrew Voogel, reagan pufall at League Gallery
Berkeley: 800 Heinz, Suite 5, 7-9pm

Li Huayi, Lu Chuntao, Wang Tiande, Zheng Chongbin "Contemporary Ink" curated by Kuiyi Shen at NanHai Art
Millbrae: 510 Broadway, Suite 301, 2-4pm

Sunday, October 5

"The Big Draw: Channeling Diebenkorn" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Free, 1:30 - 3pm

Artist Talk: Adriana Camarena, Amy Balkin, Kirk Crippens , Richard A. Walker "Creating Land Value & Dispossession" at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Tickets $25 | Members $20, 4:30 pm

Monday, October 6

Lecture: "Interior Design Lecture Series: Colin Applegate & Karen Glik" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, 7pm

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