Bay Area arts events
Tobin Yelland
In The House! Tobin Yelland Slideshow + Talk
5/18/2008 12:00pm - 1:00pm at Photo Epicenter
Photographer and Filmmaker Tobin Yelland’s work features the day-to-day experiences of many different characters playing out their sexuality and… Link
Tuesday, 5/20
Clare Kirkconnell
Looking Up
5/20/2008 - 7/3/2008 at John Berggruen Gallery
John Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by California-based artist, Clare Kirkconnell. This exhibition opens May…
Christopher Brown
Recent Paintings
5/20/2008 - 7/3/2008 at John Berggruen Gallery
John Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by celebrated Bay Area artist, Christopher Brown. Christopher Brown: Recent…
Wednesday, 5/21
Adam5100
The Heart vs. The Mind in a Fight to the Finish
5/21/2008 - 6/21/2008 at Rowan Morrison
Rowan Morrison Gallery is pleased to present “The Heart vs. The Mind in a Fight to the Finish”, a solo exhibit of innovative new stencil works by… Link
Intergenerational Writers Lab Night 3
5/21/2008 7:00pm - 9:00pm at Space180
Join Kearny Street Workshop and Intersection for the Arts for an evening of literary exploration and the third night of the 2008 Intergenerational… Link
Thursday, 5/22
After the Revolution
BYO Brown Bag Lunch Discussion for After the Revolution
5/22/2008 12:00pm - 1:00pm at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Monotype Marathon
Monotype Demonstration
5/22/2008 7:00pm - 8:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Joan Perlman
Flux
5/22/2008 - 6/8/2008 at David Cunningham Projects
DCP (David Cunningham Projects) invites you to attend the opening reception of FLUX, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Los Angeles based…
Bethany Ayres, Scott Hove
The Hot Salon
5/22/2008 - 6/23/2008 at Esteban Sabar Gallery
Scott Hove's and Bethany Ayres' insights into our perceived social roles take shape in large format works. Hove's kinetic works on canvases contrast… Link
Patricia Gillespie
Willing to Go There
5/22/2008 - 6/23/2008 at Esteban Sabar Gallery
Patricia Gillespie’s new work amuses and then punches. She calls her show Willing to go There and as with her earlier work she is taking the viewer… Link
Suzanne Husky
You Make Me Make You
5/22/2008 - 6/29/2008 at Triple Base Gallery
For her ambitious installation at Triple Base, Suzanne Husky has crafted a series of soft sculptures that include Chinese factory workers, Mexican… Link
David Maisel
Apocalyptic Sublime: Will Oldham & David Maisel
5/22/2008 7:30pm at Headlands Center for the Arts
For a real fish out of water experience, join us as one of America’s most influential songwriters calls to all music lovers. 2008 AIR Will Oldham… Link
Friday, 5/23
Lift Off: SJSU MFA Graduate Exhibition
Opening Reception
5/23/2008 6:00pm - 8:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Paul Cesewski
AIR Show
5/23/2008 - 5/24/2008 at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc.
The show features the work of our current artist in residence, Paul Cesewski who is creating a carnival midway, a series of booths with "games of… Link
Group show
Decoy
5/23/2008 - 6/6/2008 at Lobot Gallery
Opening: May 23, 2008 7-11pm Decoy, a group exhibition of sculpture, painting, video, and works on paper, engages the political and psychological… Link
Dana Carlson, Fawn Gehweiler
Pink Worlds
5/23/2008 - 6/28/2008 at Aftermodern
Friday, May 23rd, 6 - 8:30PM Pink Worlds and White Icing, a collection of poems written by a twelve-year-old girl in the late sixties, stands as… Link
Group show
Hopeless and Otherwise
5/23/2008 - 7/3/2008 at Southern Exposure
Opening Reception: Friday, May 23, 7-9pm An exhibition that addresses notions of patriotism and our current problematic relationship to American… Link
Mary Walling Blackburn
This Dream, This Frequency, 2006-08
5/23/2008 - 7/3/2008 at The Lab
Mini-transmitter radio broadcast on 88.9 FM These recordings are of an actor reading descriptions of dreams of American soldiers stationed in Iraq…
Brendan Lott
Memories I'll Never Have
5/23/2008 - 8/2/2008 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Brendan Lott's solo show Memories I'll Never Have challenges notions of art and technology, authorship, globalization and out-sourcing in our… Link
Saturday, 5/24
The Heart vs. The Mind in a Fight to the Finish
Opening Reception
5/24/2008 6:00pm - 10:00pm at Rowan Morrison
Activist Imagination
Exhibition Closing Reception & Catalog Release
John Casey, Jeff Eisenberg, Christopher Loomis
Improvised Territory
5/24/2008 - 6/22/2008 at Swarm Gallery
In the main gallery, Jeff Eisenberg + Christopher Loomis do a collaborative installation of modern landscape fictions. Eisenberg works on paper,… Link
The Mantra Trailer
5/24/2008 11:00am - 3:00pm at The Lab
Sherri Lynn Wood. Location to be announced. Share your mantra – a prayer, petition, or aspiration for self or society – through this traveling… Link
Artist Workshop: Breathalyzer Microphone
Learn how to install a high-accuracy breath-alcohol sensor into an XLR microphone and adapt the equipment for your own subversive inquiry into the… Link
Ongoing
- Bag'o / Neo: 21st Century Modernism though 5/18/2008 at Micaëla Gallery
- Burn the Breeze + Posture though 5/18/2008 at Swarm Gallery
- Joan Miró though 5/18/2008 at Weinstein Gallery
- Emancipated Hearts: what is family to me? though 5/19/2008 at Esteban Sabar Gallery
- Ethereal Realities though 5/20/2008 at Aftermodern
- A Fool's Errand though 5/20/2008 at Gallery Three
- One Foot in The Other World The Other Foot in The Other World though 5/23/2008 at Receiver Gallery
- Jonestown Had a Garden though 5/23/2008 at Mission 17
- Activist Imagination though 5/24/2008 at Space180
- Make You Notice though 5/24/2008 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Venue though 5/24/2008 at Front Gallery
- Interplay though 5/24/2008 at Kala Art Institute
- How I Learned To... though 5/24/2008 at Intersection for the Arts
- East of the West though 5/24/2008 at SomArts
- Restroom No. 5 though 5/24/2008 at The Lab
- Subversive Complicity though 5/24/2008 at The Lab
- Passengers: 1.9 Gareth Moore though 5/24/2008 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Bonus Map though 5/25/2008 at CELLspace
- Forever and Never though 5/25/2008 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
- Playing with Multiplicity though 5/26/2008 at The Compound Gallery & Studios
- Ready to Pop though 5/26/2008 at Blankspace
- Savage Whiskers though 5/28/2008 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
- Circus though 5/30/2008 at 111 Minna Gallery
- Sweet Bike! though 5/30/2008 at EgoPark
- Alessandro Busci: 8 though 5/31/2008 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- When Hell Freezes Over though 5/31/2008 at Gallery 16
- Varnish Fine Art 5 Year Anniversary Show though 5/31/2008 at Varnish Fine Art
- Ghost Hesh though 5/31/2008 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
- The Master's Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways) though 5/31/2008 at Little Tree Gallery
- Untitled though 5/31/2008 at Artists' Television Access
- Organic Tranquility though 5/31/2008 at collectively GRASP
- Gina Borg though 5/31/2008 at Jancar Jones Gallery
- Heavens though 5/31/2008 at Artists' Television Access
- Thick Air Method though 5/31/2008 at Jack Hanley Gallery
- Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg though 6/1/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- American Debut though 6/1/2008 at Frey Norris Gallery
- Mills College MFA Exhibition 2008 though 6/1/2008 at Mills College Art Museum
- Sunday Painting though 6/1/2008 at Iceberger Gallery
- Being True: 22 Years of American Youth though 6/5/2008 at Photo Epicenter
- John Belingheri though 6/6/2008 at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
- Memory Eternal though 6/7/2008 at Catharine Clark Gallery
- Music is the Healing Force of the Universe though 6/7/2008 at Catharine Clark Gallery
- Kelsey Brookes and AJ Fosik though 6/7/2008 at White Walls
- Caffiends though 6/8/2008 at Ritual Coffee Roasters
- Feudal Echo though 6/8/2008 at Park Life Store
- Remembering Tomorrow though 6/8/2008 at The Shooting Gallery
- These Canyons: The 38th Annual UC, Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition though 6/8/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- urbanScapes 2 though 6/8/2008 at Reaves Gallery
- On Condition of Anonymity though 6/8/2008 at Gallery Three
- Recession: The alternative economies of Maximo Gonzalez though 6/12/2008 at Queen's Nails Annex
- Balance though 6/13/2008 at Satori Yoga Studio
- The Word on the Street though 6/14/2008 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Lift Off: SJSU MFA Graduate Exhibition though 6/14/2008 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Kick Out the Jams though 6/14/2008 at The Luggage Store
- 201 Drawings though 6/14/2008 at Hosfelt Gallery
- Ox Herding though 6/14/2008 at Hosfelt Gallery
- The Optimistic though 6/14/2008 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
- Written on spiders though 6/14/2008 at Silverman Gallery
- Headlands Graduate Fellows in the Project Space though 6/17/2008 at Headlands Center for the Arts
- Quarter Century though 6/18/2008 at Creativity Explored
- Tree Show IV though 6/18/2008 at Giant Robot
- New Walls though 6/19/2008 at Creative Growth
- No Vanishing Point though 6/21/2008 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Nuclear Family though 6/21/2008 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Spring and By Summer Fall though 6/21/2008 at Ratio 3
- Dang though 6/21/2008 at Lincart
- Mental and Material Realms though 6/21/2008 at Bucheon Gallery
- After the Revolution though 6/27/2008 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Bestiaries though 6/28/2008 at Oakland Art Gallery
- Nothing exists in itself though 6/28/2008 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
- Project: Crushed Glass though 6/28/2008 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
- Unlikely/Improbable though 6/28/2008 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
- Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers though 6/28/2008 at Jack Fischer Gallery
- The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics though 6/29/2008 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Tracing Roads through Central Asia though 6/29/2008 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Reel to Real though 7/2/2008 at Marx & Zavattero
- Lure though 7/5/2008 at Chinese Culture Center
- Crossing the Delaware though 7/5/2008 at Johansson Projects
- Portals though 7/5/2008 at Johansson Projects
- MATRIX/REDUX though 7/6/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Dianne Jones though 7/14/2008 at Pro Arts
- The Perfect Audience though 8/3/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Held Rectangles though 8/3/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Hans Hofmann though 8/3/2008 at Berkeley Art Museum
- Capp Street Project: Mario Ybarra Jr. though 8/9/2008 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Amateurs though 8/9/2008 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Capp Street Project: Tim Lee though 1/10/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Happening today
What’s new
- Lands End: Starr King
8/22/2008 - 9/19/2008 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery - Who: John Chiara
- Where: Grand Velo
- Site and Situation
8/28/2008 - 9/12/2008 at Clara Street Projects - Who: Jesse Walton
- Who: Ryan Verzaal
- Who: Kristen Van Diggelen
- Who: Colleen Mulvey
- Who: Stephanie Inagaki
- Who: Jesse Hensel