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First Friday Reception
Andrew Benson, Sébastien Lapointe, Disintegrations
11/6/2009 6:00pm at Johansson Projects
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First Friday Reception
Michael Hall, Daniel Healey, This is Not My Beautiful Life
11/6/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm at Blankspace Gallery
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Nikki McClure
Nikki McClure
Needles & Pens presents an exhibition of new works by Nikki McClure N&P is honored to present a collection of new paper cuts by the x-acto blade ace ...
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The Robot Taxonomy Project
Opening reception: Friday November 6 7:00 - 10:00 pm Continuing its mission to identify, classify, document and promote better understanding of ... More info
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Christina Koci Hernandez
Ambiguous Times
PHOTOJOURNALIST ABANDONS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FOR PLASTIC HAND-HELD CAMERA Opening Reception Fri Nov 6th, 6–9 PM. (Oakland, CA) After thirteen ... More info
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Kevin Parks Hauser, Carrie Hott
Everything I was I became in memory
11/6/2009 - 11/29/2009 at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 2009, 7-10 p.m. Gallery Hours: Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, 6-8:30 p.m., or e-mail for special hours. ... More info
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Aaron Geman, Chris Held, Sue Higo
Shelter in Place
11/6/2009 - 12/3/2009 at Front Gallery
Receptions: Friday, November 6 and December 4, 7–10 p.m. in conjunction with Oakland Art Murmur First Fridays (www.oaklandartmurmur.com). Sue ...
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Tucker Nichols
New Work
11/6/2009 - 12/11/2009 at Gallery 16
Opening reception on Friday November 6 from 6 - 9pm Gallery 16 is excited to present our second solo exhibition of artist Tucker Nichols. Tucker ... More info
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Ara Peterson
Turns into Stone
11/6/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Ratio 3
Opening reception: November 6, 2009, 6-8pm. Ratio 3 is pleased to present Turns into Stone, new work by Ara Peterson, on view from November 6 to ... More info
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Serena Cole
I Want to be Adored
11/6/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Triple Base Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 7-10pm Triple Base is proud to present Serena Cole’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Cole conceived ...
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Eileen P. Goldenberg
One Woman Show
11/6/2009 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Eileen P Goldenberg will show her recent paintings at A Woman's Eye Gallery 678 Portola, San Francisco (across from Mollie Stone's, Upper Market ... More info
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Sixth Annual Art for the House
11/6/2009 6:00pm - 10:00pm at The Shooting Gallery
Urban Art Silent Auction to benefit Hospitality House's Community Arts Program Featuring works by artists from the Shooting Gallery, The Community ... More info
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Terry Riley: Pipe Dreams
11/6/2009 9:00pm - 11:00pm at Berkeley Art Museum
Sage, iconoclast, cosmic seer, and musical alchemist Terry Riley returns to the Berkeley Art Museum after some thirty-five years to start our Friday ... More info
Ongoing events
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Isabelle Jenniches
Webcam Works
10/2/2009 - 11/6/2009
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Group show
Five
10/7/2009 - 11/6/2009 at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
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Eternal Sleep
10/16/2009 - 11/6/2009 at 1:AM Gallery
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Charmaine Olivia
Urban Menagerie
10/16/2009 - 11/6/2009 at Gallery Six
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Jason Kalogiros, Maggie Preston
Duplicate Location
10/23/2009 - 11/6/2009 at The Spare Room Project
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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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Ajit Chauhan
What's That Hanging On My Bicycle?
10/8/2009 - 11/7/2009 at Jack Hanley Gallery
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Akira Beard, C3, KMNDZ
C3, KMNDZ & Akira
10/10/2009 - 11/7/2009 at The Shooting Gallery
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Group show
The Stencil Show
10/10/2009 - 11/7/2009 at White Walls
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Steve MacDonald
Upstairs Is Where The Magic Happens
10/10/2009 - 11/7/2009 at Gallery Three
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Justin Beal, Lena Daly, Kate Owens
Justin Beal, Lena Daly, Kate Owens
10/15/2009 - 11/7/2009 at Jancar Jones Gallery
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John Baldessari
A Print Retrospective
7/11/2009 - 11/8/2009 at Legion of Honor
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Rakuko Naito, Zachary Royer Scholz
Thoughts in Circles and Squares
10/8/2009 - 11/8/2009 at Noma Gallery
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3rd i's Seventh Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival
11/5/2009 - 11/8/2009
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Stencil Class by Roman
11/4/2009 5:30pm - 11/11/2009 7:00pm at 1:AM Gallery
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Grant Reynolds, Jeremy Tinder
Chip Beef, Chipped Tooth
10/17/2009 - 11/11/2009 at Giant Robot
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Andrew Benson, Sébastien Lapointe
Disintegrations
10/2/2009 - 11/13/2009 at Johansson Projects
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Lori Gordon
Snippets
10/16/2009 - 11/13/2009 at Ampersand International Arts
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Jesse Balmer, Bryan Schnelle, Steve Seeley
Catch Your Death
10/17/2009 - 11/13/2009 at Double Punch
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Christina Corfield, Ruth Hodgins
Christina Corfield and Ruth Hodgins
10/18/2009 - 11/13/2009 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
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Robert Buck
iPainting
10/20/2009 - 11/13/2009 at Anthony Meier Fine Arts
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Ryan Boyle, Bessma Khalaf
You're Not There + Concrete Poetry
10/9/2009 - 11/14/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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Mauricio Ancalmo
Dubitatio
10/17/2009 - 11/14/2009 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
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Brendan Lott
Paintings of the Vernacular
10/17/2009 - 11/14/2009 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
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Miguel Arzabe, aZin seraj
Soccer in the Gallery + close both eyes to see with the other eye
11/4/2009 - 11/14/2009 at Worth Ryder Art Gallery
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Group show
Echo
10/8/2009 - 11/15/2009 at Frey Norris Gallery
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Christopher Romer
3AM: Under the Full Moon
10/15/2009 - 11/15/2009 at The Compound Gallery & Studios
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Michael Hall, Daniel Healey
This is Not My Beautiful Life
10/15/2009 - 11/15/2009 at Blankspace Gallery
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Wonderland
10/17/2009 - 11/15/2009
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Toy Modification Class by Lily Black
11/3/2009 5:30pm - 11/17/2009 7:00pm at 1:AM Gallery
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Group show
Familial Ghosts
10/22/2009 - 11/17/2009 at Lowerdeck
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Amy Trachtenberg
Vacilando
9/14/2009 - 11/20/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
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Jacqueline Gordon
Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine
10/23/2009 - 11/20/2009 at Queen's Nails Projects
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Letter Style & Mural Production Class by Twick1
11/5/2009 5:30pm - 11/21/2009 4:00pm at 1:AM Gallery
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Sorry Friend, This Is No Hemorrhoids ;-{o
10/3/2009 - 11/21/2009 at A440 Gallery
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"Science" Fiction
10/8/2009 - 11/21/2009 at Creativity Explored
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Seth Lower
Looking for Lee Ming
10/30/2009 - 11/21/2009 at The Lab
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Americana: Mississippi
11/3/2009 - 11/21/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Catherine M. Feeney
At Arm's Length
10/9/2009 - 11/22/2009 at 31 Rausch
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Korakrit Arunanondchai, Aaron Eliah Terry
Do Yetis Dream of 3 Mile Islands? + WARZ
11/5/2009 - 11/26/2009 at Ever Gold
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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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Harry Clewans, Maizie Gilbert
The 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking
10/13/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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Jud Bergeron
Quietly I Will Wait
10/22/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
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Sunaura Taylor
Animal
10/24/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Rowan Morrison Gallery
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Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch
Megarealms
11/5/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
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Bert Bergen, Lafe Eaves, Kevin E. Taylor
Paper Tigers
11/5/2009 - 11/28/2009 at Fivepoints Arthouse
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Group show
Metaphysical Abstraction
10/1/2009 - 11/29/2009 at Berkeley Art Center
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Group show
Hyperspaces
10/16/2009 - 11/30/2009 at Park Life
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Amanda Curreri
Unfortunate Monument Opening Reception
11/1/2009 - 11/30/2009 at Artists' Television Access
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Group show
The Novemberists
11/5/2009 - 11/30/2009 at 111 Minna Gallery
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Retablo: Behind the Altar
10/22/2009 - 12/1/2009
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Tara Foley
Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End
11/3/2009 - 12/1/2009 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
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Andrea Higgins
Appearance
10/24/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Gerhard Mayer
Organic Virtual Aseptic Lines
10/24/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Ruth Marten
Side-Saddle
10/24/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Mike Arcega
The Collaspe
10/24/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Marx & Zavattero
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Stephen Hannock
New Work
11/5/2009 - 12/5/2009 at John Berggruen Gallery
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Kerry Vander Meer
Exhibit of New Work
10/3/2009 - 12/6/2009 at Triton Museum of Art
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Jordan Essoe, Taro Hattori
V + Living Room
10/30/2009 - 12/6/2009 at Swarm Gallery
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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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Immediate Future
10/9/2009 - 12/12/2009 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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Group show
Bellwether
10/17/2009 - 12/12/2009 at Southern Exposure
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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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Kay Bradner, Stan Peterson
Tender Observations + Found Fables
11/1/2009 - 12/14/2009 at Donna Seager Gallery
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Intro to Movietelling (Neo-Benshi) with Dennis Somera
11/3/2009 7:00pm - 12/15/2009 9:00pm at Kearny Street Workshop
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Robert Minervini
A Means to an End
10/24/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
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Counterpoint 2009, The Beginning: 7 West Coast Artists Using Photography
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Togonon Gallery
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Laurie Reid
Eight Days Improv
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Lauren Cohen, Markus Linnenbrink
EVERYTHINGEVERYWHEREALLTHETIME
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
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Marc Katano
Half-light
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Material Witness
7/22/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Eric Gill
Iconographer
10/11/2009 - 12/20/2009
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Omer Fast
MATRIX 230
10/25/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
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Karrie Hovey
...the Garden Grows
10/26/2009 - 12/23/2009
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Don Voisine
Paintings
11/4/2009 - 12/23/2009 at Gregory Lind Gallery
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Robert Sagerman
Workings
11/5/2009 - 12/30/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
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Lauren DiCioccio
Lauren DiCioccio
11/5/2009 - 12/31/2009 at Jack Fischer Gallery
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Walter Robinson
[sic]
11/5/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Catharine Clark Gallery
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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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One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran
11/4/2009 - 1/23/2010 at Intersection for the Arts
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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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When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present
11/5/2009 - 1/31/2010 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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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
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Group show
Altered States: The Collection in Context
10/31/2009 - 2/20/2010 at di Rosa
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Acid Rough Luxe
11/3/2009 - 2/27/2010 at Aurobora Press
What’s new
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the ART of Graffiti "Sketching Letters" Class by Nate1
4/10/2010 12:30pm - 3:30pm at 1:AM Gallery
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Stencil Class by Roman
4/14/2010 5:30pm - 4/21/2010 7:00pm at 1:AM Gallery
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Renee Prisble Una
Breathe
3/26/2010 - 6/25/2010 at CIIS Main Building
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Suné Woods
Bountiful Darkness
3/31/2010 - 4/28/2010 at CIIS Minna Street Center
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Evri Kwong
No Fooling
4/1/2010 - 4/30/2010 at Sandra Lee Gallery
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Lisa Curet, Keira Kotler, Indira Martina Morre
Lisa Curet, Keira Kotler, Indira Martina Morre
3/18/2010 - 4/23/2010 at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason
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Allison Adams, Pia Stern
Allison Adams, Pia Stern
3/18/2010 - 4/23/2010 at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason
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John McNamara
John McNamara
3/12/2010 10:00am - 4/7/2010 4:00pm at Gallery Bergelli
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