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Opening reception
Amanda Curreri, Unfortunate Monument Opening Reception
11/7/2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm at Artists' Television Access
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Opening Reception (Members' Preview 5-6 PM)
Group show, Altered States: The Collection in Context
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Reception
Kay Bradner, Stan Peterson, Tender Observations + Found Fables
11/7/2009 6:00pm - 8:00pm at Donna Seager Gallery
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Cutting Ice with a Motorcycle
Imagine a big block of ice suspended from the ceiling of the Exploratorium. Now imagine a wire wrapped around the middle of that ice block from which ... Continue
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Bjorn Copeland
Hope It Works
11/7/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Jack Hanley Gallery
Opening reception: Saturday, November 7th, 6-9pm The Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit of work by Bjorn Copeland. The show will ... Continue
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Mary Conrad
Lapidary Terrarium
11/7/2009 - 12/12/2009 at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
Michael Rosenthal is pleased to present Lapidary Terrarium, Mary Conrad’s San Francisco debut exhibition of installation works, paintings, and ... Continue
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Sean Cheetham, Penelope Krebs
Sean Cheetham + Penelope Krebs
11/7/2009 - 1/8/2010 at Lincart
Lincart Gallery is pleased to present a two person exhibition featuring new figurative work from portrait painter Sean Cheetham (Los Angeles) and ... Continue
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Group show
Afterlife
11/7/2009 - 1/23/2010 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
On the heels of its recent show, NextNew:Green that featured the works of emerging Bay Area artists exploring issues related to conservation, the ... Continue
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Theodora Varney Jones
Manifold
11/7/2009 - 2/20/2010 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Manifold, a solo exhibition by postminimalist sculptor and installation artist Theodora ... Continue
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the ART of Graffiti "Sketching Letters" Class by Nate1
11/7/2009 12:30pm - 3:30pm at 1:AM Gallery
1AM SF is not only an art gallery celebrating urban and street art but also an establishment committed to conveying the positive aspects of this ... Continue
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A Writing lab with Mark Nowak
11/7/2009 1:00pm - 3:00pm at California College of the Arts (SF)
Presented by Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center Continue
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Special Election: a First Colony event by Lordy Rodriguez
11/7/2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm at Southern Exposure
As part of his expanding project First Colony, Bellwether artist Lordy Rodriguez invites gallery visitors to become citizens of this new land and ... Continue
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Daniel Hipolito
Freaking Out
11/7/2009 6:00pm at Soap Gallery
Daniel Hipolito will transform the Soap Gallery with an drawing/painting installation. Continue
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Abby Denson
Dolltopia - Book Signing
11/7/2009 6:00pm - 8:00pm at Giant Robot
Giant Robot is proud to celebrate the release of Dolltopia with a signing by writer and artist Abby Denson. A natural follow-up to Denson's ... Continue
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Pro Arts 35th Anniversary Party and Benefit Auction
11/7/2009 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Pro Arts at Oakland Art Gallery
Pro Arts announces its 35th Anniversary Party/ Box Art Exhibition & Benefit Auction, Saturday, November 7, 2009, 6:00 - 9:00 PM. The event celebrates ... Continue
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A Lecture with Mark Nowak and Rachel Loden
11/7/2009 7:30pm - 9:30pm at California College of the Arts (SF)
Presented by Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center Continue
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Conversation: John Hodgman (with TBA)
11/7/2009 8:00pm - 9:30pm at City Arts & Lectures
American author and humorist John Hodgman has appeared as the Resident Expert on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," "PC" on Apple's "Get a Mac" TV ... Continue
Ongoing events
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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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Christina Koci Hernandez
Ambiguous Times
11/6/2009 - 11/28/2009
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Group show
Metaphysical Abstraction
10/1/2009 - 11/29/2009 at Berkeley Art Center
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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
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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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Aaron Geman, Chris Held, Sue Higo
Shelter in Place
11/6/2009 - 12/3/2009 at Front 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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Tucker Nichols
New Work
11/6/2009 - 12/11/2009 at Gallery 16
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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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Ara Peterson
Turns into Stone
11/6/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Ratio 3
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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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Serena Cole
I Want to be Adored
11/6/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Triple Base Gallery
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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
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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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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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