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Group show
Double Exposure (two): Balanced Roles
12/5/2009 - 12/24/2009 at Rowan Morrison Gallery
Double Exposure (two): Balanced Roles Five Bay Area Artist-slash-curators working within residential spaces Opening Reception: Saturday December 5th, ... More info
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A Selection of Bay Area Figurative Paintings & Drawings 1950s to the Present
12/5/2009 - 1/3/2010 at ArtZone 461 Gallery
ArtZone 461 Gallery is pleased to present in our Side Gallery a selection of paintings and drawings by Bay Area Figurative artists from the 1950s to ... More info
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Six Centuries of Printmaking, Part II: 1800s to the Present
12/5/2009 - 1/3/2010 at ArtZone 461 Gallery
ArtZone 461 Gallery is pleased to present in our Main Space the second half of “Six Centuries of Printmaking.” The exhibit provides an overview ... More info
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Printed Matter 7
12/5/2009 - 1/6/2010 at Giant Robot
Reception: Saturday, December 5, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm Giant Robot is proud to present Printed Matter 7 at GRSF. The latest installment of the popular ... More info
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Pablo Guardiola
Primero La Caja
Opening Reception, Saturday, December 5th, 7:30 p.m. Galería de la Raza is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Pablo Guardiola, that ... More info
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Passive/Aggressive - Southern Exposure’s Juried Public Art/Urban Interventions Day
12/5/2009 11:00am - 5:00pm at Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure’s Juried Public Art/Urban Interventions Day presents work by 12 artists using the Mission District as a platform for creativity ... More info
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Emily Dippo
Water Walk
12/5/2009 11:30am - 3:00pm
A Walk beginning at San Francisco Civic Center, heading north and concluding at Aquatic Park, is aided by viewfinders developed to guide the ... More info
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San Francisco Art Institute's 9th Annual Winter Art & Gift Fair
12/5/2009 12:00pm - 3:00pm at San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)
You don’t want to miss this exciting event! Students, alumni, faculty, and staff will present work in individual booths, featuring paintings, ... More info
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Family DIY Drop-in Card Making
12/5/2009 1:00pm - 3:00pm at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
Come on Saturday to get your ART ON! Drop in to print up a set of cards. The Kala Classroom and Gallery at 2990 San Pablo Ave. is a fabulous place to ... More info
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Performance lab with Carla Harryman
12/5/2009 1:00pm - 3:00pm at California College of the Arts (SF), Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA
Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Women's Studies and Creative ... More info
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Exercises In Seeing
12/5/2009 8:00pm - 12/6/2009 6:00am at Queen's Nails Projects
Post Brothers Present EXERCISES IN SEEING a one night only exhibition held entirely in the dark Saturday, December 5th, 2009. 8 PM – 6 AM Free ... More info
Ongoing events
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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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Tropical Vulture: Live Video Taping
12/3/2009 - 12/5/2009 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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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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Super Pop-Up Shop
11/22/2009 - 12/6/2009
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Sand Kim
Photography Show and Book Release
12/3/2009 - 12/6/2009 at Ever Gold
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Fort Mason Printmakers Show and Sale
12/4/2009 - 12/6/2009
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Postcard Show 13
12/4/2009 - 12/6/2009 at The Lab
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Group show
The Big Painting Show
11/28/2009 - 12/9/2009 at Workspace Limited
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Group show
We Haven't Felt This Way in Years
11/21/2009 - 12/10/2009 at Double Punch
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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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Camilla Newhagen
My Husband
11/20/2009 - 12/16/2009 at BellJar
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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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The Color Show: New Work by Nine Bay Area Artists
12/4/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Slate Art & Design
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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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Holidayland Gift Sale
11/27/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Blankspace Gallery
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Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios
11/28/2009 - 12/20/2009
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Joe Rees
Transformer
11/20/2009 - 12/22/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
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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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Berkeley Potters Guild Holiday Ceramic Sale
11/21/2009 - 12/24/2009
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Small Works! Art for Under a Hundred Bucks
12/4/2009 - 12/24/2009 at Royal NoneSuch 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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Brian Andrews
Imposed Order(s)
12/3/2009 - 12/30/2009
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Lauren DiCioccio
Lauren DiCioccio
11/5/2009 - 12/31/2009 at Jack Fischer Gallery
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Joy Broom, Jerry Leisure
Alchemy
12/3/2009 - 12/31/2009 at A440 Gallery
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Walter Robinson
[sic]
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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Brion Nuda Rosch
Brion Nuda Rosch
11/21/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
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Dusty Hayes
11/14/2009 - 1/3/2010 at 2nd Floor Projects
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Sandra Lee Gallery Holiday Party & Art Sale
12/1/2009 - 1/4/2010 at Sandra Lee Gallery
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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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Oliver DiCicco, Barry Underwood
Earth Engines
11/21/2009 - 1/9/2010 at Johansson Projects
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Fresh Produce: 9th Annual Invitational Group Exhibit and Art Sale
12/4/2009 - 1/9/2010 at Anno Domini
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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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Toban Nichols
The Tragedy Collection
12/1/2009 - 1/10/2010
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Project Wrecking Ball
9/25/2009 - 1/15/2010 at Varnish Fine Art
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Juried Annual 2010
11/24/2009 - 1/15/2010 at Pro Arts at Oakland Art Gallery
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Micah LeBrun
Resurface
12/3/2009 - 1/15/2010 at 111 Minna Gallery
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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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Group show
New Images of Man and Woman
12/4/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Alphonse Berber 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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