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Draw Show
4/11/2009 - 5/7/2009 at The Shooting Gallery
DRAW is a must-see art exhibition featuring original drawings by 300 artists in the tattoo, literature, design, illustration, animation, skateboard, ... More info
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Caleb Neelon, Mike Shine
Waiting For Ararat
4/11/2009 - 5/7/2009 at White Walls
White Walls Gallery presents “Waiting For Ararat,” a joint show featuring Caleb Neelon and Mike Shine. An opening reception will be held ... More info
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Adam Flores
Winner Warz
4/11/2009 - 5/7/2009 at Gallery Three
Opening Reception: April 11th 2009 from 7-10 pm. Open to the public. **Note: Gallery Three has moved locations Gallery Three is glad to present ... More info
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Poetry and the Planet
4/11/2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm at Berkeley Art Museum
Can conservation inspire poetry? Can poetry inspire conservation? Seven Bay Area poets whose work provocatively intersects with environmental issues ... More info
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Lecture by Toyo Ito
4/11/2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus Admission Free Berkeley, a place of playful philosophers and poets, is an ideal environment for Toyo Ito, ... More info
Ongoing events
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New Nature
2/27/2009 - 4/11/2009 at Alphonse Berber Gallery
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Group show
Twice Upon a Time
3/5/2009 - 4/11/2009 at Silverman Gallery
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Group show
While It Lasts
3/21/2009 - 4/11/2009 at Hatch Gallery
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Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art
1/23/2009 - 4/12/2009 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Nathaniel de Large
Blind Snake and Massacrepieces
3/15/2009 - 4/14/2009
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Group show
Most Finished
3/20/2009 - 4/15/2009 at 1:AM Gallery
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Game Over/Continue?
3/27/2009 - 4/15/2009 at Giant Robot
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Sarah Filley, Daniel Turner, Michael Wells
Spirit Rappings
3/27/2009 - 4/15/2009 at Photo Epicenter
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Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape
3/25/2009 - 4/17/2009 at California College of the Arts (SF)
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Cantocore: Free On Board
2/13/2009 - 4/18/2009 at Mission 17
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Group show
imPossible! 8 Chinese Artists Engage Absurdity
2/13/2009 - 4/18/2009 at Mission 17, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Gigi Janchang
The Cube
2/13/2009 - 4/18/2009
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Group show
Amplifying the Twilight
3/6/2009 - 4/18/2009 at Ampersand International Arts
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Judy North
Why Not Say It?
3/6/2009 - 4/18/2009 at Electric Works
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Simon Reilly
Duality
3/12/2009 - 4/18/2009 at David Cunningham Projects
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James Chronister
All We Ever Wanted Was Anything
3/14/2009 - 4/18/2009 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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Pablo Guardiola, Haden Nicholl
Pablo Guardiola + Haden Nichol
3/21/2009 - 4/18/2009 at Little Tree Gallery
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Americana: Maine
3/31/2009 - 4/18/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Frank Van Sloun
Selections from the Collection: Frank Van Sloun
12/22/2008 - 4/19/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
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Zoe Friedman
Sublunary
3/7/2009 - 4/19/2009 at MG Gallery
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Group show
Rock, Paper, Scissors
3/14/2009 - 4/19/2009
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Jason Byers, Patricia Wakida
Print Run
3/27/2009 - 4/19/2009 at 21 Grand
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Genine Lentine
Project Space
4/6/2009 - 4/20/2009 at Headlands Center for the Arts
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Andy Levy
Paintings on Paper
2/24/2009 - 4/21/2009
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TV and Me
3/12/2009 - 4/22/2009 at Creativity Explored
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Changing Channels
3/12/2009 - 4/24/2009 at Creative Growth Art Center
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Wang Tian De, Hong Lei, Gao Yuan
(re)Turn to (re)Form
3/5/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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Sono Osato
Babylon: The Buried Language Series
3/5/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
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Hadi Tabatabai
The Space of a Line
3/5/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
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Melanie Pullen
Violent Times
3/5/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Jonathan Runcio
Capital Zero
3/20/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Ratio 3
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Group show
Urban Idiom
3/21/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Garth Thompson-Vieira
The Mask of Civilization
3/26/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
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Heroes and Villains
4/3/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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Treatzone
Familiar Dreams
4/4/2009 - 4/25/2009 at Soap Gallery
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Jeremy Fish
The Ambush
2/26/2009 - 4/26/2009 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
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Maria Forde
Advice Portraits
3/13/2009 - 4/26/2009 at Needles and Pens
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Todd Sanchioni
The Changing Face of Laos Through its Music
3/26/2009 - 4/26/2009 at Artists' Television Access
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Margo Majewska
Turbulence
4/4/2009 - 4/26/2009 at Mina Dresden Gallery
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Satan's Camaro, Ben Venom
Venom v. Camaro
4/10/2009 - 4/26/2009 at Fivepoints Arthouse
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Changing Landscapes: Contemporary Chinese Fiber Art
2/4/2009 - 4/27/2009
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Compound Interest
3/21/2009 - 4/27/2009 at The Compound Gallery & Studios
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Renee Gertler
Modality Room
3/21/2009 - 4/27/2009 at Blankspace Gallery
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The Nature of Landscape
2/12/2009 - 4/30/2009 at San Francisco Studio School Gallery
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David Fullarton
Once Again I Fail To Live Up To My Advance Publicity
4/1/2009 - 4/30/2009 at Hang Art
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David Ball
Selected Works
4/1/2009 - 4/30/2009
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Ariana Marie Tordoff
Tale of Two Lands
4/1/2009 - 4/30/2009 at Artists' Television Access
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Group show
Time Lapse
4/1/2009 - 4/30/2009 at Hang Art
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Picturing the Divine in the 21st Century: Hindu & Buddhist Art
4/3/2009 - 4/30/2009 at CIIS Minna Street Center
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Emily Clawson
Navigating Fragments
4/2/2009 - 5/1/2009 at Café Royale
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Brett Amory, Nancy Chan
Spaces
4/3/2009 - 5/1/2009 at Hyde Street Gallery
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David Ruth, S. McGrath Ryan
A Rare Alchemy
3/2/2009 - 5/2/2009
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Gary Clemenceau, Scott Kiernan, Tobias Tovera
Clemenceau: Kiernan: Tovera
3/5/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Micaëla Gallery
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Kate Eric, Marina Vendrell Renaut
Flaming Furbelows
3/12/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Johansson Projects
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Mel Prest
Sky Black Ray
3/25/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Gregory Lind Gallery
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Kent and Kevin Young
Jury Breaks DNA Deadlock
3/27/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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Baseera Khan
InSearches: Hindu Kush
3/28/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Stefan Kürten
Once In A Lifetime
3/28/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian
One For Every Day of the Year
3/28/2009 - 5/2/2009 at Jack Fischer Gallery
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Ted Lincoln
Complementary Compounds
4/2/2009 - 5/2/2009 at 111 Minna Gallery
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Peter Coffin
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: 2.8 Peter Coffin
4/7/2009 - 5/2/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Rie Kawakami
Living Cube
4/8/2009 - 5/2/2009 at The Lab
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Matt Kennedy
Nothing Ever Happens
4/8/2009 - 5/2/2009 at The Lab
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Michael Namkung
Points of Contact
4/8/2009 - 5/2/2009 at The Lab
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Taking Refuge: Buddhist Art from the Land of White Clouds
2/25/2009 - 5/3/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Dana Harel
Kin
4/2/2009 - 5/3/2009 at Frey Norris Gallery
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Out of the Flat Files II & Bryson Gill Portraits
4/2/2009 - 5/3/2009 at Triple Base Gallery
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Ouroboros: The Art of the Round
4/4/2009 - 5/5/2009
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Bill Fontana
Spiraling Echoes
2/11/2009 - 5/8/2009 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Porous Walker
Me vs Me
4/4/2009 - 5/8/2009 at Receiver Gallery
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James Barsness
Dharma Bums
3/21/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Catharine Clark Gallery
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Marko Mäetamm
Media Room
3/21/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Catharine Clark Gallery
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Philip Knoll
Paradise Found
3/21/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Catharine Clark Gallery
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Jennybird Alcantara
Treacherous Gardens
3/31/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Varnish Fine Art
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Dark Americana
4/4/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
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Hannah Henry
Small Ruins
4/4/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Rowan Morrison Gallery
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Tom Huck
The Transformation of Brandy Baghead
4/4/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
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Group show
2008 SECA Art Award
2/12/2009 - 5/10/2009 at SFMOMA
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John Casey
Distant Cousins
4/3/2009 - 5/10/2009 at Swarm Gallery
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Don Porcella
Project Space
4/3/2009 - 5/10/2009 at Swarm Gallery
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Regime Change
4/3/2009 - 5/10/2009 at Swarm Gallery
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Bruno Fazzolari
Cold Turkey
4/3/2009 - 5/15/2009 at Gallery 16
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Group show
I Want You To Want Me
4/4/2009 - 5/16/2009 at Marx & Zavattero
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Mario Garcia Torres
Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials / MATRIX 227
2/22/2009 - 5/17/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Trimpin
Sheng High: A Sound Installation
3/26/2009 - 5/17/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
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Maria Bonn
Perpetual Possibilities
3/28/2009 - 5/23/2009 at collectively GRASP
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Julie Blackmon
Domestic Vacations
4/2/2009 - 5/23/2009 at SF Camerawork
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Liu Gang, Wang Jianwei
Even in Arcadia
4/2/2009 - 5/23/2009 at SF Camerawork
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Sean McFarland
The 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers
4/2/2009 - 5/23/2009 at SF Camerawork
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Aisyah Ang
Aisyah Ang
3/7/2009 - 5/25/2009
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Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 2
1/27/2009 - 5/30/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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William Kentridge
Five Themes
3/14/2009 - 5/31/2009 at SFMOMA
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Melissa Bolger
Praying On The Old Campground
4/1/2009 - 5/31/2009
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New Works/Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table
2/27/2009 - 6/2/2009 at Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Group show
(un)Natural
2/21/2009 - 6/13/2009 at di Rosa
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Benjamin Brown, Jaime Guerrero, Travis Sandoval
3 in Glass
4/4/2009 - 6/13/2009 at Sculpturesite Gallery
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Lift Off: SJSU Graduate MFA Exhibition
4/10/2009 - 6/13/2009 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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It’s Not Us, It’s You
4/4/2009 - 6/20/2009 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Paul Wonner
Paul Wonner
3/26/2009 - 6/26/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
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Kate Gilmore
(Night Moves)
4/4/2009 - 6/26/2009 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Nick Cave
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
3/28/2009 - 7/5/2009 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Martin Freeman
Ultra
3/4/2009 - 7/31/2009
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Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye
2/25/2009 - 8/30/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet
4/1/2009 - 9/27/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
What’s new
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John DiPaolo
New Paintings
4/1/2010 - 5/29/2010 at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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Sean McFarland, James Sterling Pitt
The Sea All Around Us
3/13/2010 - 4/4/2010 at Sight School
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Tom Bills, Caroline Cox, Mitra Fabian
New Cast Concrete and Steel Sculpture
3/16/2010 - 4/24/2010 at Don Soker Contemporary Art
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Group show
Cream, from the top
3/20/2010 - 4/18/2010
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pick
Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining
3/12/2010 - 3/13/2010
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At Bay
3/10/2010 - 3/20/2010 at Worth Ryder Art Gallery
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Security
3/10/2010 - 3/27/2010 at Root Division
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Derek Albeck, Marco Zamora
Marco Zamora & Derek Albeck
4/1/2010 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
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