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First Friday Reception
Narangkar Glover, It's Gonna Be Awesome
10/2/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm at Blankspace Gallery
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First Friday Reception
Ben Belknap, Crystal Morey, Derek Weisberg, This Long Road
10/2/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm at The Compound Gallery & Studios
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Reception
Wrong
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Harvest Fair
The Warehouse, @ 416 26th St, Oakland presents: Harvest Fair, First Friday, @the Warehouse, 416-26th St, Oakland October 2-3, first Friday from ...
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29th Annual Fall Art Exhibition and Auction
10/2/2009 - 10/24/2009 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in San Jose is proud to present its signature Annual Fall Art Exhibition and Auction. Now in its 29th year, ...
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Group show
Making Pictures
10/2/2009 - 10/30/2009 at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Opening party: Friday, October 2, 5-9 p.m. Making Pictures is a love affair with ‘straight’ photography. An exploration of daily life, routine, ...
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Diem Chau, Marina Luz, Lisa Solomon
Binding Constant
10/2/2009 - 11/1/2009 at Rare Device
New Work by Diem Chau, Marina Luz and Lisa Solomon. The work will appear in the Rare Device gallery from October 2 – November 1, with an opening ... More info
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Wrong!
10/2/2009 - 11/1/2009 at 21 Grand
21 Grand's First Ever Juried Exhibition Artists' Reception: Friday, October 2 - 7-10pm When historians look back on the past ten years, they may ...
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Isabelle Jenniches
Webcam Works
Isabelle Jenniches: Webcam Works Solo exhibition (closing) October 2 - November 6, 2009 Cabrillo Gallery 6500 Soquel Drive, Room 1002 (below ... More info
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Andrew Benson, Sébastien Lapointe
Disintegrations
10/2/2009 - 11/13/2009 at Johansson Projects
Artist Reception Friday, October 2nd 5 - 8PM Johansson Projects presents Disintegrations, where Technology sheds the discourse of forward progress ... More info
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Oakland East Bay Culture Corridor and 510Arts.com Launch
10/2/2009 5:30pm - 7:30pm at Oakland Art Gallery
City of Oakland presents: Oakland East Bay Culture Corridor and 510Arts.com Launch Oakland/East Bay Arts Happy Hour-An enhanced First Friday arts ... More info
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Oakland First Fridays Art Night
10/2/2009 5:30pm - 10:00pm
City of Oakland presents: Oakland First Fridays Art Night Downtown Oakland galleries, including those affiliated with the popular Art Murmur, open ... More info
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Carol Inez Charney
Interior Landscape 09
10/2/2009 6:00pm - 9:00pm
SLATE art & design is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Carol Inez Charney's work titled "Interior Landscape 09". Please join us for the ... More info
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THE SOMETHING: or the telepathic cellphone is our electric neo-disillusionment.
10/2/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm at Jack Hanley Gallery
Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to announce a one-night-only happening, developed by Shaun O’Dell’s class of students at the California College of ... More info
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Filmnight 4.0: The Outdoor Version
10/2/2009 7:30pm
Curated by Suki O'Kane of Illuminated Corridor Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:30PM Oakland Ironworks parking lot [behind Swarm Gallery], 3rd Street ...
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Illuminated Corridor filmnight
10/2/2009 7:30pm - 9:30pm at Swarm Gallery
Oakland ironworks parking lot (3rd street between clay and jefferson) An evening of artifacts from the bay area's live cinema milieu. highlighting ... More info
Ongoing events
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Gugger Petter
Female Head/Madonna
9/2/2009 - 10/2/2009 at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
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Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel, Patrick Hill
Play With Your Own Marbles
9/2/2009 - 10/3/2009 at Noma Gallery
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Alan B. Callander, Emi Winter
CF01 + Dusseldorf Paintings
9/4/2009 - 10/3/2009 at Ampersand International Arts
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Sean Talley
Sean Talley
9/4/2009 - 10/3/2009 at Jancar Jones Gallery
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Ian McDonald, Conrad Meyers, Shimomitsu
Today and Others + Blight
9/4/2009 - 10/3/2009 at Queen's Nails Projects
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Albert Reyes
New Works
9/12/2009 - 10/3/2009 at White Walls
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David Young V
San Francisco Youth Report
9/12/2009 - 10/3/2009 at Gallery Three
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Rich Jacobs
Searching by flashlight, for the bright spots on your brain, and such
9/12/2009 - 10/3/2009 at White Walls
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Erik Otto, Kevin E. Taylor
Terrestrial Syndrome
9/12/2009 - 10/3/2009 at The Shooting Gallery
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This is a Sacred Place
8/29/2009 - 10/4/2009
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Film Screening: Dario Argento's Three Mothers trilogy
10/1/2009 - 10/4/2009 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Rebecca Kerlin
Constructions
9/25/2009 - 10/7/2009 at a.Muse Gallery
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David Ivan Clark, Kerri Lee Johnson, Emily Payne
David Ivan Clark, Kerri Lee Johnson, Emily Payne
9/3/2009 - 10/9/2009 at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason
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Kirk Crippens, Max Lawrence
New World Order: Technology
9/3/2009 - 10/9/2009 at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason
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Don't Sweat the Technique: Ode to the Spraycan
9/11/2009 - 10/9/2009 at 1:AM Gallery
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Barnaby Furnas
The Lesser Light
9/15/2009 - 10/9/2009 at Anthony Meier Fine Arts
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Eli Harris
Banal Obsessions
9/18/2009 - 10/9/2009 at Gallery Six
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Yes, Lets
9/25/2009 - 10/9/2009 at The Spare Room Project
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Mel Kadel
Echo Test
9/10/2009 - 10/10/2009 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
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Hot & Cold: The End is Here
9/11/2009 - 10/10/2009 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
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Jo Babcock, Nicholas Knight
Taking Pictures + Past Life Picturesque
9/11/2009 - 10/10/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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Group show
Syzygy
9/18/2009 - 10/10/2009 at The Lab
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Americana: Michigan
9/22/2009 - 10/10/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Deborah Grant
Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard / MATRIX 228
5/31/2009 - 10/11/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Chris Ballantyne, Mark Mulroney, Andrew Schoultz
A Collaboration
9/4/2009 - 10/11/2009 at Park Life
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Narangkar Glover
It's Gonna Be Awesome
9/10/2009 - 10/11/2009 at Blankspace Gallery
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Ben Belknap, Crystal Morey, Derek Weisberg
This Long Road
9/12/2009 - 10/11/2009 at The Compound Gallery & Studios
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Group show
Uncovered Reminders
9/14/2009 - 10/12/2009
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Group show
A Small # of Things
9/19/2009 - 10/14/2009 at Giant Robot
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Playdate
9/17/2009 - 10/15/2009 at Lowerdeck
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Air Waves
9/18/2009 - 10/15/2009 at Painted Bird
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The Time it Takes
9/18/2009 - 10/16/2009
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Branden Koch
Valet
9/18/2009 - 10/16/2009 at Ping Pong Gallery
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Alika Cooper, Elise Irving
A Cold Wave + New Lightboxes
9/3/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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Bedri Baykam
Bedri Baykam
9/3/2009 - 10/17/2009
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Sandow Birk
American Qur'an
9/5/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Catharine Clark Gallery
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Crystal Liu
Give Us Our Dream, Part One
9/8/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Gideon Rubin
Mexican Summer
9/8/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Stephanie Peek
Uncertain Riches
9/8/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Triangle Gallery
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David Hevel
Beautiful, Dirty, Dirty, Rich
9/10/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Marx & Zavattero
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Kim Anno, Gail Wight
Liquescent + Intertidal Zone
9/10/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Nancy Chan, Matt Momchilov, Jesse Schlesinger
Always is Always Forever
9/11/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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Luke Butler
Captain!
9/11/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Silverman Gallery
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Owen Schuh
The Conceit of Counting
9/11/2009 - 10/17/2009 at Cain Schulte Gallery
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Brian Willmont
Skinwalker
9/12/2009 - 10/23/2009 at Receiver Gallery
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Aaron Parazette, Anders Ruhwald
Air Drop + Almost Nothing
9/10/2009 - 10/24/2009 at Gregory Lind Gallery
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Jane Hambleton
Above, Below & What Falls Between
9/12/2009 - 10/24/2009 at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
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Wallworks
7/18/2009 - 10/25/2009 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Michele Ramirez
New Works on Paper
9/5/2009 - 10/25/2009 at Rowan Morrison Gallery
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Kathy Aoki
Museum of Historical Makeovers
9/18/2009 - 10/25/2009 at Swarm Gallery
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Todd Bura
Painting Spiritual Painting
9/18/2009 - 10/25/2009 at Triple Base Gallery
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Bookish
9/22/2009 - 10/25/2009 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
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Rex Ray
New Work 2009
9/11/2009 - 10/30/2009 at Gallery 16
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Bryn Craig
New Paintings
9/25/2009 - 10/30/2009
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The Loin: Launched
10/1/2009 8:00pm - 10/31/2009 11:30pm
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Fraser Taylor
/Tracking/
9/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Aurobora Press
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Dennis Letbetter
Color Photographs and "K" Book
9/10/2009 - 10/31/2009
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Freddy Chandra
Listening Sequence
9/10/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
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Deborah Oropallo
Wild Wild West. Show
9/10/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Keira Kotler
[in]sight
9/19/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Untitled Gallery
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Deborah Oropallo
New Editions and Book Signing
9/24/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Gallery 16
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Heiko Müller
Stay Awake
9/26/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Jack Fischer Gallery
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Ariel Erestingcol
CeWEBrities: The Virtual Red Carpet
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Togonon Gallery
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Everyday Miracles (Extended) - Phase 1
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI
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Interrupting a Beam of Light
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at David Cunningham Projects
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LOVE IT or LEAVE IT
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at 111 Minna Gallery
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Group show
Six Artists
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at John Berggruen Gallery
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Servando Garcia
Struggle
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Togonon Gallery
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Group show
Von Doom
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at Ever Gold
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Michael Gregory
Western Constructs
10/1/2009 - 10/31/2009 at John Berggruen Gallery
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Wrong
9/18/2009 - 11/1/2009 at 21 Grand
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Bella Feldman, JP Long
Dialogue
9/3/2009 - 11/7/2009 at Sculpturesite Gallery
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Nathan Redwood
On A Neck
9/11/2009 - 11/7/2009 at Electric Works
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Robyn O'Neil
There does come a time when laughs become sighs; we put all to rest, we said our goodbyes
9/11/2009 - 11/7/2009 at Electric Works
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John Baldessari
A Print Retrospective
7/11/2009 - 11/8/2009 at Legion of Honor
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Amy Trachtenberg
Vacilando
9/14/2009 - 11/20/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
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Tomma Abts
Chance and Construction
9/22/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Crown Point Press
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Gary Ruddell
New Paintings
10/1/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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Group show
Metaphysical Abstraction
10/1/2009 - 11/29/2009 at Berkeley Art Center
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City of Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition
9/17/2009 - 12/11/2009
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Moby Dick
9/22/2009 - 12/12/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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African American Quilt Exhibition
9/24/2009 - 12/13/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
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Merch Art
9/24/2009 - 12/13/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
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Material Witness
7/22/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Dora Hsiung
Chromatic Constructions: Contemporary Fiber Art
9/12/2009 - 1/10/2010 at Chinese Culture Center
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Project Wrecking Ball
9/25/2009 - 1/15/2010 at Varnish Fine Art
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The Open Source Embroidery
10/1/2009 - 1/24/2010 at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Earth
8/26/2009 - 2/7/2010 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Fernando Botero
The Abu Ghraib Series
9/23/2009 - 2/7/2010 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Ari Marcopoulos
Within Arm’s Reach
9/23/2009 - 2/7/2010 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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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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