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Opening Reception
David Young V, Neighborhood Watch
5/7/2009 8:00pm at Café Royale
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Berliner Unkraut
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Everything for Nothing or Something
Stephanie Dodes Elinor Diamond Cathy Fairbanks Kevin Laccone Brittany McCall John K. Melvin Chris Ritson Izumi Yokoyama 05-07-09 6 - 9 pm Continue
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Baccalaureate Exhibition
5/7/2009 - 5/12/2009 at California College of the Arts (SF)
CCA San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street Hours: Thur., 6-9 p.m.; Fri.-Tues., 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Info: 510.658.1224 or 510.658.3176 Continue
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MFA Exhibition
5/7/2009 - 5/16/2009 at California College of the Arts (SF)
CCA San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street Reception: Thur., May 7, 6-9 p.m. Hours: 10 a.m.- 7:30 p.m. Info: 415.551.9271 Continue
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Epic: Visualizing Heroes Within
5/7/2009 - 5/31/2009 at SomArts
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 7, 2009, 5-8 pm ARTISTS: Armado, Michael Chang, Kai dannydan Domine, Cirilo Duenas, Grace Villarin Hiro Hua, Phillip Lim, Kek Continue
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Damon Soule
Same Loud No
5/7/2009 - 6/6/2009 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Opening: Thurs. May 7, '09 (6-9pm) Paintings and installation from this Portland based artist. As a child Damon Soule (b. 1974) became so engrossed ... Continue
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Opening Salvo for Suite 418
5/7/2009 - 6/13/2009 at Jack Fischer Gallery
FEATURING MICHELE MUENNIG, JUAN CARLOS QUINTANA, BERNARDO ROMAN PALAU, ERIN CURRIER, LAUREN DICIOCCIO, PAZ DE LA CALZADA, JOHN YOYOGI FORTES, ... Continue
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Home
5/7/2009 - 6/19/2009 at Creative Growth Art Center
Creative Growth's annual celebration of wood, ceramics, rugs, and unique art items for the home. Opening Thursday May 7, 5-8pm Continue
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Tim Sullivan
You Feel Me?
5/7/2009 - 6/20/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Reception Friday, May 8 2008, 5:30-7:30 In his first show at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Tim Sullivan gets serious about playing his favorite role—the ... Continue
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Bob Matthews
Garden Ruin
5/7/2009 - 6/27/2009 at Gregory Lind Gallery
Gregory Lind Gallery is pleased to present Garden Ruin, a new exhibition of work by London-based artist Bob Matthews. Matthews depicts romantic, ... Continue
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Douglass Freed, Joshua Hershman, Taliaferro Jones
In Camera
5/7/2009 - 6/27/2009 at Micaëla Gallery
Micaëla Gallery proudly presents, "IN CAMERA," featuring works by Douglass Freed (landscape oil painting), Taliaferro Jones (photography and glass ... Continue
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James Sansing, Jerad Walker
Installation + Paintings
5/7/2009 - 6/27/2009 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
May 7, 2009, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present two simultaneous exhibitions of work by Bay Area artists James ... Continue
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Tony Berlant
More Than Meets the Eye
5/7/2009 - 6/27/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
Veteran Los Angeles artist Tony Berlant opens an exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art on Thursday, May 7 with an opening reception from 5:30–7:30pm. ... Continue
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Douglas Schneider
Suburban Birthday Party
Opening reception: Thursday, May 7, 5:30-7:30 PM Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Douglas ... Continue
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Giorgio Morandi: Works from the Estorick Collection
Reception Thurs, May 7, 6:30-9pm The Bay Area will have a rare opportunity to see the works of leading Italian modern master Giorgio Morandi in an ... Continue
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Enrique Chagoya
2012
5/7/2009 - 7/3/2009 at Electric Works
What happens at Electric Works, stays at Electric Works. Play “2012” the "one-armed bandit" by Enrique Chagoya at the opening reception on ... Continue
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12th Annual United States of Asian America Festival Gala Opening
5/7/2009 5:00pm - 8:00pm at SomArts
The 12th Annual United States of Asian America Festival is a six-week celebration of the Silk Road Diaspora’s deeply influential artistic culture. ... Continue
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MissionArt415 Artist Reception
5/7/2009 6:00pm - 10:00pm
MissionArt415 presents: MissionArt415 Artist Reception Artist Reception May 7, 6-10pm; Exhibit on Display April 13 - May 23, San Francisco ... Continue
Ongoing events
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Draw Show
4/11/2009 - 5/7/2009 at The Shooting Gallery
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Caleb Neelon, Mike Shine
Waiting For Ararat
4/11/2009 - 5/7/2009 at White Walls
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Adam Flores
Winner Warz
4/11/2009 - 5/7/2009 at Gallery Three
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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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Graduate Design Thesis Presentations
5/6/2009 - 5/8/2009 at California College of the Arts (SF)
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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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Americana: Maryland
4/21/2009 - 5/9/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Unhinged
5/1/2009 - 5/9/2009 at Mina Dresden Gallery
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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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SFMOMA Annual Artists Warehouse Sale
5/6/2009 - 5/10/2009
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Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
4/18/2009 - 5/14/2009 at Michael Rosenthal 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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Cameron Soren
Cameron Soren
4/17/2009 - 5/16/2009 at Jancar Jones Gallery
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New Growth IV
5/6/2009 - 5/16/2009 at Root Division
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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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Eli Geiser, Kelly Lynn Jones
Eli Geiser and Kelly Lynn Jones
4/17/2009 - 5/17/2009 at Park Life
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Tree Show V
4/18/2009 - 5/20/2009 at Giant Robot
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Panel Discussion: Theater in Revolutionary Times
4/16/2009 7:00pm - 5/21/2009 8:30pm at Contemporary Jewish Museum
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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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Frida Lives + Studio Man Ray
4/18/2009 - 5/23/2009 at Lincart
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Mark di Suvero
New Work
5/2/2009 - 5/23/2009 at John Berggruen Gallery
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The Mashup Show
5/2/2009 6:00pm - 5/24/2009 6:00pm
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The Secret of the Ninth Planet
4/24/2009 - 5/24/2009 at Photo Epicenter, Queen's Nails Projects
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Cal Jam Too
5/1/2009 - 5/24/2009 at Blankspace Gallery
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Aisyah Ang
Aisyah Ang
3/7/2009 - 5/25/2009
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Peter Gronquist
Solo Show
4/17/2009 - 5/29/2009 at 1:AM Gallery
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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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Desirée Holman
Reborn
4/17/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Silverman Gallery
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17 Reasons Why
4/24/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Mission 17
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Ulrike Palmbach
New Work
4/29/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Gabriel Klasmer
Parzoufot
4/29/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Griffin McPartland
Easy on the I's
4/30/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
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David Young V
Neighborhood Watch
5/1/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Café Royale
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Group show
You Wouldn't Know Contemporary Art if it Slapped You in the Face
5/1/2009 - 5/30/2009 at Hatch Gallery
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The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: 2.9 Abraham Cruzvillegas
5/5/2009 - 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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Group show
I Am Kurious Orange
5/1/2009 - 5/31/2009 at David Cunningham Projects
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Renee Gertler
The Aura of Craig Baldwin
5/3/2009 - 5/31/2009 at Artists' Television Access
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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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Aaron White
French New Wave
5/1/2009 - 6/6/2009
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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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Laura Paulini, Jill Sylvia
Allegories of Control
4/25/2009 - 6/13/2009 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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Weston Teruya, Jina Valentine
The Pull of Two Signs Rising Over the Land + Lots Wife
5/2/2009 - 6/13/2009 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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East Bay Open Studios 2009
5/5/2009 - 6/14/2009
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Susie Grant, Amanda Hughen, Katie Lewis
Proliferous Precisions
4/17/2009 - 6/17/2009
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Repetition
4/30/2009 - 6/17/2009 at Creativity Explored
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In Our Own Pictures and In Our Works
4/24/2009 - 6/19/2009
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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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Headlands Graduate Fellows - Project Space
4/21/2009 - 6/21/2009 at Headlands Center for the Arts
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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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Group show
You've Got Light in Your Eyes
5/2/2009 - 6/26/2009 at Needles and Pens
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re:con-figure
5/1/2009 - 6/27/2009 at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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Kenney Mencher, Carolyn Meyer
In Black and White
5/2/2009 - 6/27/2009 at ArtHaus
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Charles Beirwirth
Purrrrseus Exhibition / Gallery Walk
4/25/2009 - 7/1/2009 at Visual Aid
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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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Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity
4/24/2009 - 7/5/2009 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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David King
Collage
5/4/2009 - 7/6/2009
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Pae White
In Between the Outside-In
5/5/2009 - 7/18/2009 at New Langton Arts
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Martin Freeman
Ultra
3/4/2009 - 7/31/2009
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New Work from Kala
5/1/2009 - 8/15/2009 at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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Tracy Perkins
25 Stories from the Central Valley
4/23/2009 - 8/23/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
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Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character
5/1/2009 - 8/23/2009 at Chinese Culture Center
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The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: Stowaways
5/5/2009 - 8/29/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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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Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949
4/23/2009 - 9/7/2009 at Contemporary Jewish 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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Group show
You Knew This Was Coming
9/17/2010 - 10/18/2010 at Park Life
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With Love from Mabel (ongoing tours of the SFADM) at SC13
9/5/2010 2:30pm - 3:00pm
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Beast
10/1/2010 - 10/23/2010 at Million Fishes Gallery
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Physics of Toys
9/18/2010 11:00am - 3:00pm at Exploratorium
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Anoka Faruqee
The Longest Day of the Year
9/7/2010 - 10/16/2010 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Marietta Hoferer
Drawings
9/7/2010 - 10/16/2010 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Scott Kildall, Victoria Scott
Gift Horse
9/18/2010 3:00pm - 5:00pm at San Jose Museum of Art
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Greg Lamarche, Aaron Noble
Materialism
9/11/2010 - 10/2/2010 at Guerrero Gallery
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