Many things escape my Sauron-esque eye on the Bay Area's art events. One thing whose creation I totally missed was the opening of the first Service Industries exhibition. From their website:

"Service Industries is a series of galleries inside bars, restaurants, hotels, and other public venues that displays art by artists with jobs in the service industry. It is an open platform, a free idea, and a prompt for anyone to create their own exhibition space within any space that provides a service to the public. All Service Industries galleries will remain autonomous."

The first one has opened, a work by Daniel Bouthot curated by Marion Cousin at the Little Shamrock bar in San Francisco. In one of the oldest bars in San Francisco there is a vitrine with a device working away to make bitcoin (to be split among the bar's staff as a 'tip' of sorts). This idea (both the piece and 'Service Industries' as a project) is very in keeping with my current thoughts about art in our city, its perseverance and ability to 'get in where it fits in'. 

There are a few events this week I am excited about. One, Joan Jonas is speaking at CCA tomorrow. This event needs no press really; it will be a packed house, and the talk will I suspect be one of the most talked about lectures of the year.

And Saturday, Sofia Cordova's solo show at Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland opens. Cordova's is a practice which gets better as it gets stranger; recent travel and residencies make the timing of this show perfect. 

And Sunday a group show opens at Manresa Gallery, a venue I've not been to yet. Housed in St. Ignatius Church, Todd Bura, Rebeca Bollinger, Bryson Gill, and Ranu Mukherjee are making commissioned works responding to the church's collection and history.

Wednesday:
+ Book launch: "Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th Century" at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:

+ Lecture: "Lecture by Joan Jonas" at California College of the Arts (CCA)

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Friday:
+ Lecture: "Graduate Lecture Series: Blake Stimson" at San Francisco Art Institute

Saturday:
+ Sofia Cordova "Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Monday:
+ Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Llyn Foulkes + Tamar Halpern" at San Francisco Art Institute

Tuesday, October 7

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

Wednesday, October 8

Philip Buller "Used Paintings" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Book launch: "Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th Century" at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 3295 20th Street, at Folsom Street, Free, 6-8pm

Thursday, October 9

Artist Talk: "Preston Gannaway Artist Talk & Book Signing" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 1011 Market Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Domenico Monteforte "Painting in Action" at Italian Cultural Institute
Financial District: 814 Montgomery street, 6:30pm

"StereoTYPE" at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street, 7-9pm

Dimitri 'Dima' Drjuchin, Ryan Stubbs aka Duser "DIMA/DUSER" at Campfire Gallery
Mission District: 3344 24th Street, 7-10pm

+ Lecture: "Lecture by Joan Jonas" at California College of the Arts (CCA) Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

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"Uncommon Sense" at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5-8pm

Friday, October 10

"Visions at Twilight: DIa de los Muertos 2014" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $12-$15, sliding scale, 6-9pm

Ajuan Mance, Cascade Wilhelm, Keisha Scarville, Megan Morgan, Michaela Pilar Brown, Nanci Nwamaka Ikejimba Muraoka, Numa Perrier, Rashayla Marie Brown, Shilo McCabe, Sune Woods "Dark Desires" curated by crystal a.m. nelson at Center for Sex and Culture
SOMA: 1349 Mission Street, free, 7-10pm

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

Lecture: "Photography Lecture Series: Robert Cumming" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, $10 general / $5 students with ID, tickets available at the door, 7:30 pm

Screening: Anne McGuire, Kerry Laitala, Konrad Steiner, Paul Clipson "4" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $10, 8pm

Saturday, October 11

Moneyless "Tornado" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, 7-11pm

Adam Lister "Wet Geometry" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Remi Rough "Motivational Therapy" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Steve More "The Topography of Time" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 886 Geary Street, Project Space, 7-11pm

Alexandra Manukyan, Ranson & Mitchell, Stefani Vega & Aunia Kahn "Rough & Ready Sideshow" at Bash Contemporary
Tenderloin: 210 Golden Gate Avenue, 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

Rachel Znerold "Geothermal" at Secession Art & Design (Blackbird Bar)
Castro: 2124 Market Street, 6-8pm

Carrie Pollack, Fabiola Menchelli, Hannah Whitaker, Heather Cleary, James Hyde, John Houck, Klea McKenna , Kunie Sugiura, Mariah Robertson, Phil Chang, Sara VanDerBeek "Aggregate Exposure" curated by Jennah Ward at George Lawson Gallery
Potrero Hill: 315 Potrero Avenue, 5:30-7:30pm

Auction: "FLOURISH Oakland 2014: Party + Art Auction" at Classic Cars West
Oakland: 411 26th Street, 6-10pm

+ Sofia Cordova "Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 7-10pm

Sunday, October 12

Bryson Gill, Ranu Mukherjee , Rebeca Bollinger, Todd Bura "Partial Views" at Manresa Gallery
Haight Ashbury: 650 Parker Avenue, 12-2:30pm

Art Fair: "Evan Holm's Drawing Machine" at Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley: 1275 Walnut Street, 1-3 pm

Monday, October 13

+ Lecture: "Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Llyn Foulkes + Tamar Halpern" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, free, 7:30 pm

Lecture: "Interior Design Lecture Series: Elena Manferdini" at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7-9pm

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