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Colloquium: William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch at Fifty
11/20/2009 - 11/22/2009 at San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)
William S. Burroughs as Author of Naked Lunch Friday, 20 November 2009 at 7:00pm Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street campus Free and open to the public ... More info
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Norah Hoover
Silver Scale - Sound-Making Costumes From Found Materials
11/20/2009 - 11/22/2009 at CELLspace
silver scale is a series of sound-making costumes made out of materials found in the Mission District. Paper, plastic, found clothing and fabric were ... More info
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Chicken
11/20/2009 - 12/4/2009 at The Spare Room Project
Opening Reception: November 20, 7-10 pm, Open by appt. through Dec 4th. curated by emmett ramstad pink and white. raw. flayed meat under plastic ... More info
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Camilla Newhagen
My Husband
11/20/2009 - 12/16/2009 at BellJar
Opening Reception: November 20th, 6 – 9PM The BellJar's next show will be a mixed media installation including provocative embroidery, collage, ... More info
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Joe Rees
Transformer
11/20/2009 - 12/22/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Opening Reception Friday, November 20, 6-8 pm Joe Rees produced striking and disparate bodies of punk rock video and neon sculpture in the 1970s and ...
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Yvonne Rainer, Lecture & Film Screenings
11/20/2009 5:00pm - 11/22/2009 7:30pm at San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)
Conveying with wit and inventiveness the personal implications of sociopolitical issues, the films of Yvonne Rainer (who will be present at both ... More info
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SFAC Art in Storefronts Kickoff Mission
11/20/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm
WHAT: Lower 24th Street will explode with creative energy with the launch of the Art in Storefronts pilot program, which places original ... More info
Ongoing events
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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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Automatic: A Benefit Art Show For Robogames 2010
11/19/2009 - 11/21/2009 at Lowerdeck
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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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Group show
Now Or Never
11/14/2009 - 12/1/2009 at Gallery Heist
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James Kochalka
Little Paintings 4
11/14/2009 - 12/2/2009 at Giant Robot
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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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Bjorn Copeland
Hope It Works
11/7/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Jack Hanley Gallery
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ESPO
New Works by ESPO
11/14/2009 - 12/5/2009 at White Walls
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Erik Foss
Unseen on TV
11/14/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Gallery Three
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Yumiko Kayukawa
Wild Wild East
11/14/2009 - 12/5/2009 at The Shooting 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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Jason Vivona
Eternal Beauty Rest: the observation and classification of phantasmal specters and the interdimensional experience
11/13/2009 - 12/11/2009 at Gallery Six
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Joshua Pieper
Everything Must Go
11/13/2009 - 12/11/2009 at Ping Pong Gallery
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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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Mary Conrad
Lapidary Terrarium
11/7/2009 - 12/12/2009 at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
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Glenna Cole Allee
Refractions
11/9/2009 - 12/12/2009
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Tabi Tabi Po
11/13/2009 - 12/12/2009 at 1:AM Gallery
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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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Joshua Churchill, Peggy Cyphers
Until the Bright Logic is Won Unwishpering as a Mirror is Believed
11/13/2009 - 12/13/2009 at Noma Gallery
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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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Stan Heller
In 3D
11/14/2009 - 12/17/2009 at Mission: Comics & Art
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Howard Hersh
Howard Hersh
11/11/2009 - 12/18/2009 at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
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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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JIGSAWMENTALLAMA
11/12/2009 - 12/19/2009 at David Cunningham Projects
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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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Theodora Varney Jones
Reflections / Small Scale Works
11/17/2009 - 12/30/2009 at Don Soker Contemporary 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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Sean Kennedy
Sean Kennedy
11/13/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Jancar Jones Gallery
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Dusty Hayes
11/14/2009 - 1/3/2010 at 2nd Floor Projects
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Sean Cheetham, Penelope Krebs
Sean Cheetham + Penelope Krebs
11/7/2009 - 1/8/2010 at Lincart
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Paul Madonna
Album 01: In What Era Will You Get Stuck?
11/13/2009 - 1/8/2010 at Electric Works
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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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Group show
Afterlife
11/7/2009 - 1/23/2010 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary 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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Everyday Miracles (Extended) - Phase 2
11/13/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI
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Dorothea Tanning
Beyond the Esplanade
11/19/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Frey Norris Gallery
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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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The Arts of Java and Bali: Objects of Belief, Ritual and Performance
11/19/2009 - 2/7/2010
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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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Theodora Varney Jones
Manifold
11/7/2009 - 2/20/2010 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Acid Rough Luxe
11/3/2009 - 2/27/2010 at Aurobora Press
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Jerry Ross Barrish
Empathy
11/19/2009 - 2/27/2010 at Sculpturesite Gallery
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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