Bay Area arts events
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- Crooked Meadow though 5/12/2008 at Jack Fischer Gallery
- Group Sects though 5/14/2008 at Giant Robot
- In In the Spring though 5/16/2008 at Anthony Meier Fine Arts
- This Show Needs You though 5/17/2008 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Collection in Context: Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture though 5/17/2008 at di Rosa Preserve
- A Prompt & Perfect Cure though 5/17/2008 at Gregory Lind Gallery
- Albert Oehlen: Paintings 1988 - 2008 though 5/17/2008 at John Berggruen Gallery
- New Growth though 5/17/2008 at Root Division
- CCA 2008 MFA Exhibition though 5/17/2008 at California College of the Arts (SF)
- Bag'o / Neo: 21st Century Modernism though 5/18/2008 at Micaëla Gallery
- Burn the Breeze + Posture though 5/18/2008 at Swarm Gallery
- Joan Miró though 5/18/2008 at Weinstein Gallery
- Emancipated Hearts: what is family to me? though 5/19/2008 at Esteban Sabar Gallery
- Ethereal Realities though 5/20/2008 at Aftermodern
- A Fool's Errand though 5/20/2008 at Gallery Three
- One Foot in The Other World The Other Foot in The Other World though 5/23/2008 at Receiver Gallery
- Jonestown Had a Garden though 5/23/2008 at Mission 17
- Activist Imagination though 5/24/2008 at Space180
- Make You Notice though 5/24/2008 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Venue though 5/24/2008 at Front Gallery
- Interplay though 5/24/2008 at Kala Art Institute
- How I Learned To... though 5/24/2008 at Intersection for the Arts
- East of the West though 5/24/2008 at SomArts
- Restroom No. 5 though 5/24/2008 at The Lab
- Subversive Complicity though 5/24/2008 at The Lab
- Passengers: 1.9 Gareth Moore though 5/24/2008 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Bonus Map though 5/25/2008 at CELLspace
- Forever and Never though 5/25/2008 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
- Playing with Multiplicity though 5/26/2008 at The Compound Gallery & Studios
- Ready to Pop though 5/26/2008 at Blankspace
- Circus though 5/30/2008 at 111 Minna Gallery
- Sweet Bike! Member of SPACE 1026 though 5/30/2008 at EgoPark
- Alessandro Busci: 8 though 5/31/2008 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- When Hell Freezes Over though 5/31/2008 at Gallery 16
- Varnish Fine Art 5 Year Anniversary Show though 5/31/2008 at Varnish Fine Art
- Ghost Hesh though 5/31/2008 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
- The Master's Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways) though 5/31/2008 at Little Tree Gallery
- Untitled though 5/31/2008 at Artists' Television Access
- Organic Tranquility though 5/31/2008 at collectively GRASP
- Gina Borg though 5/31/2008 at Jancar Jones Gallery
- Heavens though 5/31/2008 at Artists' Television Access
- Thick Air Method though 5/31/2008 at Jack Hanley Gallery
- Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg though 6/1/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- American Debut though 6/1/2008 at Frey Norris Gallery
- Mills College MFA Exhibition 2008 though 6/1/2008 at Mills College Art Museum
- Sunday Painting though 6/1/2008 at Iceberger Gallery
- John Belingheri though 6/6/2008 at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
- Memory Eternal though 6/7/2008 at Catharine Clark Gallery
- Music is the Healing Force of the Universe though 6/7/2008 at Catharine Clark Gallery
- Kelsey Brookes and AJ Fosik though 6/7/2008 at White Walls
- Caffiends though 6/8/2008 at Ritual Coffee Roasters
- The Word on the Street though 6/14/2008 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Lift Off: SJSU MFA Graduate Exhibition though 6/14/2008 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Kick Out the Jams though 6/14/2008 at The Luggage Store
- 201 Drawings though 6/14/2008 at Hosfelt Gallery
- Ox Herding though 6/14/2008 at Hosfelt Gallery
- Headlands Graduate Fellows in the Project Space though 6/17/2008 at Headlands Center for the Arts
- Quarter Century though 6/18/2008 at Creativity Explored
- New Walls though 6/19/2008 at Creative Growth
- No Vanishing Point though 6/21/2008 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Nuclear Family though 6/21/2008 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Spring and By Summer Fall though 6/21/2008 at Ratio 3
- After the Revolution though 6/27/2008 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics though 6/29/2008 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Tracing Roads through Central Asia though 6/29/2008 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Lure though 7/5/2008 at Chinese Culture Center
- MATRIX/REDUX though 7/6/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Dianne Jones though 7/14/2008 at Pro Arts
- The Perfect Audience though 8/3/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Held Rectangles though 8/3/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Hans Hofmann though 8/3/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Capp Street Project: Mario Ybarra Jr. though 8/9/2008 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Amateurs though 8/9/2008 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Capp Street Project: Tim Lee though 1/10/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
What’s new
Griff Williams
Nothing exists in itself
5/15/2008 - 6/28/2008 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Williams’ vivid, polychrome paintings present an elaborate blend of visual references, using landscape as the foundation for pictorial space. The… Link
Laurie Reid
Project: Crushed Glass
5/15/2008 - 6/28/2008 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Reid drips, scrapes, sprays and draws this time around with glue and spray adhesive, which bind the glass (both black and mirrored silver) to the… Link
Amanda M. Smith
Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
5/17/2008 - 6/28/2008 at Jack Fischer Gallery
Reception for artist: Saturday, May 17, 2-5pm Link
Joan Perlman
Flux
5/22/2008 - 6/8/2008 at David Cunningham Projects
DCP (David Cunningham Projects) invites you to attend the opening reception of FLUX, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Los Angeles based…
Intergenerational Writers Lab Night 3
5/21/2008 7:00pm - 9:00pm at Space180
Join Kearny Street Workshop and Intersection for the Arts for an evening of literary exploration and the third night of the 2008 Intergenerational… Link
Kevin E. Taylor
Caffiends
5/4/2008 - 6/8/2008 at Ritual Coffee Roasters
During the Rorschach test, a subject is shown mirrored inkblots and asked to describe what they “see”. Some psychologists believe that insightful…
Beili Liu
Lure
5/9/2008 - 7/5/2008 at Chinese Culture Center
Chinese-American Contemporary Artist Beili Liu Explores the Ties that Bind Lovers in a Dramatic, Large-scale Installation at the Chinese Culture… Link
Chris Baird, Rainen Knecht
The Optimistic
5/15/2008 - 6/14/2008 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15, 7-10pm Link
Under 100
6/11/2008 - 6/21/2008 at Root Division
Under 100: Exhibition, Sale, and Live Screen-Print Event! UNDER 100 seeks to demystify the experience of buying and selling art. All the work will… Link
Ping Pong Happy Hour
5/16/2008 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Ping Pong Gallery
Ping Pong Gallery's ongoing social sculpture, Ping Pong Happy Hour, is our continued commitment to bringing together artists and friends, and… Link
Suzanne Husky
You Make Me Make You
5/22/2008 - 6/29/2008 at Triple Base Gallery
For her ambitious installation at Triple Base, Suzanne Husky has crafted a series of soft sculptures that include Chinese factory workers, Mexican… Link
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Outside perspectives
Reviews of events, projects and exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each month we divide and conquer - reviewing as many spaces as possible.
- Feral at The Luggage Store 5/1/2008
- Figure Below: Nickolas Mohanna at Eleanor Harwood Gallery by Zachary Royer Scholz 4/26/2008
- When Hell Freezes Over: Lauren Davies at Gallery 16 by Zachary Royer Scholz 4/25/2008
- Misfits: Todd Bura at Triple Base Gallery by Zachary Royer Scholz 4/23/2008
- Misfits, a solo show by Todd Bura at Triple Base Gallery by Bessie Kunath 4/21/2008