Bayeté Ross Smith "Mirrors" at California Institute of Integral Studies
SOMA: 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Ends June 1st, 2012
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Painting: Johnny Botts, Misho ""Spaced Togheter" at Misho Gallery
SOMA: 680 8th street, Suite 230
Ends May 26th, 2012
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"Consequences National Juried Show" at Arc Studios & Gallery
SOMA: 1246 Folsom Street
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Marta Solomianko "Monoculture" at Jellyfish Gallery
SOMA: 1286 Folsom Street, floor 1
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Tom Marioni "Tom Marioni/Pat Steir" at Crown Point Press
SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street
Ends May 25th, 2012
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Bryan Morello, Caitlin Denny, Dean Schneider, Jason Benson, Joel Dean, Matthew Endler, Nicolás Colón "The Field as the Frame, the Raster as the Rake" curated by Matthew Endler at Alter Space
SOMA: 1158 Howard Street, floor 1
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Photography: Eric William Carroll "2012 Baum Award Exhibition - Eric William Carroll" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 1011 Market Street, floor 2
Ends June 30th, 2012
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Photography: Nina Katchadourian "Seat Assignment" at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street
Ends May 26th, 2012
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Arthur Monroe, Dewey Crumpler, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Mike Henderson, Robert Colescott, Squeak Carnwath "Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!" curated by Lizzetta Le-Falle Collins at Museum of the African Diaspora
SOMA: 685 Mission Street, floor 1
Ends September 23rd, 2012
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Mixed Media: April Gornik, Deborah Lozier, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Lisa Congdon, Lisa Kokin, Rodney Graham, Rona Pondick, Tal Shochat, Terry Berlier, Tobi Kahn, Yoshitomo Saito, Yuken Teruya, Yves Behar "Do Not Destroy" curated by Dara Solomon at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street
Ends May 28th, 2012
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Mixed Media: "California Dreaming" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street
Ends October 16th, 2012
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Sculpture: Stanley Saitowitz "Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street
Ends October 16th, 2012
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Dwayne Marsh & Nana Twumasi, Nathaniel Parsons & Ly Nguyen, Christine Ponelle & Annice Jacoby, Eliza Barrios & Myron Michael, Karrie Hovey & Elise Ficarra with Evelyn Ficarra, Keiko Ishihara & Chaim Bertman, Liz Worthy & Jenny Bitner, Matthew Rogers & Maw Shein Win, Megan Wilson & Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Misako Inaoka & Jaime Cortez, Patricia Kelly & Vince Montague, Paul Bridenbaugh & Steve Gilmartin "Broadside Attractions | Vanquished Terrains" at Intersection for the Arts (Intersection 5M)
SOMA: 901 Mission Street, at 5th Street, floor 1
Ends May 26th, 2012
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Nathalie Talec "The One Who Sees Blindly" curated by Julio Cesar Morales at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Gallery 3
Ends June 1st, 2012
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Film: "Super 8" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, CrossFade Video Lounge
Ends June 24th, 2012
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Photography: Rineke Dijkstra "Rineka Dijkstra: A Retrospective" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street
Ends May 28th, 2012
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Photography: Rineke Dijkstra "Rineka Dijkstra: A Retrospective" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street
Ends May 28th, 2012
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Mark Bradford "Mark Bradford" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street
Ends June 17th, 2012
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Anthony Discenza, John Smith, Lynn Marie Kirby and Li Xiaofei, Shilpa Gupta, Tris Vonna-Michell "Descriptive Acts: Act II" curated by Rudolf Frieling at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street
Ends June 17th, 2012
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Katharina Wulff "New Work: Katharina Wulff" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street
Ends September 9th, 2012
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Harrell Fletcher "Only Birds Sing the Music Of Heaven In This World" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane
Ends July 7th, 2012
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Installation: Adrian Wong "Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal" at Gallery 1.5 (Chinese Culture Center)
North Beach: 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
Ends July 21st, 2012
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Tony Labat "New Work" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Tony Oursler "top-down-bottom-up" at Gallery Paule Anglim
Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Nate Boyce "Knockdown Texture" at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Pard Morrison "Recent Work" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5
Tue-Fri 11-5:30pm, Sat 11-5pm
Ends June 30th, 2012
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Adam Fowler "Hide/Reveal" at Brian Gross Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5
Tue-Fri 11-5:30pm, Sat 11-5pm
Ends July 30th, 2012
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Photography: Lee Friedlander "Mannequin" at Fraenkel Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4
Ends June 23rd, 2012
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Photography: Tom Chambers "Entropic Kingdom" curated by Bryan Yedinak at Modernbook Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4
Ends June 1st, 2012
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Photography: Paul Schiek "dead men don't look like me" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Marc Katano "Penumbra" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 3
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Amparo Sard "Spacing the Impasse" at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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"The Bridge" A group exhibition celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge at Rena Bransten Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Wayne Thiebaud "Paintings and Pastels" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2
Ends July 7th, 2012
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Mixed Media: Chloe Fleury "Color Me Happy: The World of Chloe Fleury" at La Boutique l'Art et la Mode
Downtown: 414 Jackson Street, Suite 101
Ends June 1st, 2012
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Stanislav Szukalski "SZUKALSKI" at Varnish Fine Art
Downtown: 16 Jessie street, suite 120
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Benoît Platéus "Backpages" at Highlight Gallery
Downtown: 17 Kearny Street
Ends June 9th, 2012
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Sculpture: Adrian Wong "Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal" curated by Abby Chen at Chinese Cultural Center
Downtown: 750 Kearny Street, floor 3
Ends August 25th, 2012
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Aquarius Records, Chris Fallon, Conveyor Magazine, Kelly Lynn Jones, Partisan Magazine, Renee Rhodes, S ND Y PR LR S and more, Sarah Hotchkiss "Edicola Opening" curated by Carissa Potter, Colpa Press, Luca Antonucci at Edicola
Downtown: Market Street, at 6th Street, Newstand
Ends August 15th, 2012
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Photography: Chris Brorsen "Flashbacks A Collection of Unpublished Rock-n-Roll Photography" at Canessa Gallery
Downtown: 708 Montgomery Street
Ends May 28th, 2012
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Tom Lieber "Wired" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Christopher Felver, David Meltzer, Henry Miller, Jack Hirschman, Jack Micheline, Jess, John Keating, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, William S. Burroughs, William Saroyan "The Painted Word" curated by Peter Selz, Sue Kubly at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street
Ends June 9th, 2012
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Jordan Eagles "HAEMOSCURO" at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3
Ends May 25th, 2012
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Vanessa Prager., Yigal Ozeri "Territory + The Moon is Down" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Downtown: 464 Sutter Street
Ends June 30th, 2012
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Lin Yilin "Golden Journey" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Walter and McBean Gallery
Ends July 28th, 2012
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Photography: August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Gillian Wearing, Hans Peter Feldman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jim Goldberg, Larry Sultan, Lee Friedlander, Retratos Pintados, Richard Avedon, Richard Learoyd, Tomoko Sawada, Yasumasa Morimura "About Face" at Pier 24
Embarcadero: Pier 24 The Embarcadero
Open By Appointment
Ends February 28th, 2013
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Adeela Suleman, Adrian Wong, Aki Kondo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Bae Young Whan, Charwei Tsai, Choi Jeong Hwa, Fuyuko Matsui, Guo Fengyi, Heman Chong, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Howie Tsui, Hyon Gyon, Jagannath Panda, Jakkai Siributr, Jompet Kuswidananto, Lin Chuan-Chu, Lin Xue, Motohiko Odani, NS Harsha, Palden Weinreb, Poklong Anading, Pouran Jinchi, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Raqib Shaw, Ringo Bunoan, Sun K. Kwak, Takayuki Yamamoto, Varunika Saraf, Yoshihiro Suda "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" curated by Mami Kataoka at Asian Art Museum
Civic Center: 200 Larkin St.
Ends September 2nd, 2012
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Drawing: Joel Daniel Phillips ""No Regrets In Life"" at Satellite66
Tenderloin: 66 6th Street
Ends June 30th, 2012
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Herakut "Loving the Exiled" at 941 Gallery
Tenderloin: 941 Geary Street, floor 1
Ends May 29th, 2012
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Word to Mother "Can’t Afford to be Broke" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 1
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Samuel Lowder "Time Machine" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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"Are We There Yet?" curated by Larry Morace at Creativity Explored
Mission District: 3245 16th Street
Mon-Fri 10-3pm, Thurs 10-7pm Sat 1-6pm
Ends June 13th, 2012
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Kevin E. Taylor , Taravat Talepasand "Kountәr Pärt + Pathetique" at Guerrero Gallery
Mission District: 2700 19th Street
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Allison Kudla, BCL (Georg Tremmel & Shiho Fukuhara), Center for PostNatural History, Machine Project, Markus Kayser, Philip Ross, SoEx's Youth Advisory Board with teaching artists "Intimate Science" curated by Andrea Grover at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Jenny Chapman and Mark A. Reigelman II "Manifest Destiny!" SoEx hosts an unveiling and a brief artists' talk for Manifest Destiny!, a new public art project affixed to Hotel des Arts at 447 Bush St at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street
Ends October 30th, 2012
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Susan O'Malley "My Healing Garden is Green" at Romer Young Gallery
Mission District: 1240 22nd Street
Tue and Thurs, 6-9pm, Fri-Sat 11-5pm
Ends June 9th, 2012
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Painting: Casey Cripe "The Map Is The Territory" at J. Rusten Furniture Studio
Mission District: 2815 23rd Street
Ends July 31st, 2012
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Christopher Baird, Ruth Laskey, Todd Bura at Jancar Jones Gallery
Mission District: 965 Mission Street, Suite 120
Ends May 26th, 2012
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Mitzi Pederson "Ciphers" at Ratio 3
Mission District: 1447 Stevenson Street
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Photography: Aela Labbe, Deborah Parkin, Julie Cerise, Saya Chontang "This is your world" curated by Gwen Lafage at Carte Blanche
Mission District: 973 Valencia Street, floor 1
Ends June 20th, 2012
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Chris Burden, Guy Overfelt, Josh Short, Mauricio Ancalmo, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni "(Invisible) Relic" curated by Andrew McClintock at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street
Ends June 10th, 2012
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Painting: Elisa Carozza "Veil: an exhibit of new paintings by Elisa Carozza" at Kuhl Frames +Art
Oakland: 412 22nd Street
Ends July 14th, 2012
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Benjamin Lord, Ida Rödén, Merav Tzur "Ficciones" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Donald Mitchell, Franna Lusson, John Hiltunen, John Martin, Ray Vickers, Terri Bowden "HOME 2012: Natural Selection" at Creative Growth
Oakland: 355 24th Street
Ends June 21st, 2012
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Alex Abajian, Bryson Bost, Cyrus Tilton, Donald Fortescue, Elisa Bongfeldt, Gordon Glasgow, Hannah Keefe, John Ruszel, Jon Gariepy, Luana Coonen, Luke Heimbigner, Mari Marks, Maru Hoeber, Morgania Moore, Nancy Genn, Natalie Cartwright, Sakura Haru, Sanjay Vora, Walter James Mansfield "Vessel 8: Charting the Waters" curated by Lonnie Lee at Vessel Gallery
Oakland: 471 25th Street, floor 1
Ends June 30th, 2012
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Photography: Carol Inez Charney, Daniel Backman, Elizabeth Williams, Joanne Devereaux, Joseph Jurson, Kathleen Carol Smith, Roy Berkowitz "Urban Information" curated by Danielle Fox at Slate contemporary
Oakland: 473 25th Street, floor 1
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Charlie Milgrim, Jill McLennan, Julianne Wallace Sterling, Mary Curtis Ratcliff , Terryl Dunn "Dark Alliances + this body + From Here to There" at Mercury 20 Gallery
Oakland: 475 25th Street, at Telegraph Avenue, floor 1
Thurs-Sat, 12-6pm
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Joe Penrod, Masako Miki "Ancillary Adaptations + Amalgam" at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street
Ends May 27th, 2012
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Lisa Rock, San Carr-Prindle "Splitting Image" at Some Walls
Oakland: 4660 Dolores Avenue, floor 1
by appointment only
Ends May 27th, 2012
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Camilla Newhagen, Jocelyn Meggait, Kent Rodriguez Segura, Madelyn Covey, Matthew Gottschalk, Michael Koehle, Michael Mersereau, Samuel Levi Jones, Seth Murchison, Sofia Sharpe, Susanna Corcoran, Tressa Pack "The Last Show On Earth: Mills College 2012 MFA Exhibition" curated by Stephanie Hanor at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard
Ends May 27th, 2012
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Bayeté Ross Smith, Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Kamal Sinclair "Question Bridge: Black Males" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street
Ends July 8th, 2012
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Daniel Clowes "Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes" curated by Rene de Guzman , Susan Miller at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street
Ends August 12th, 2012
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"All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area" curated by Lincoln Cushing at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street
Ends August 19th, 2012
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"The 1968 Exhibit" at Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: 1000 Oak Street
Ends August 19th, 2012
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Jennie Ottinger "What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street
Ends June 16th, 2012
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Amy Rathbone, Brett Walker, Frank Emilio Marquez-Leonard, Jennie Smith, Kari Marboe, Kari Orvik, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck "The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue
Ends June 10th, 2012
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Anja Ulfeldt, Asad Faulwell, crystal am nelson, Iris Charabi-Berggren, Justin Lowman, Marnia Johnston, Meeson Pae Yang, Michiko Yao, Rebecca Lowry "“Visions From the New California” - Exhibition and Opening Reception" curated by Lauren Davies , Mark Greenfield at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue
Ends June 30th, 2012
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Anne McGuire, Boris Scherbakov, Carrie Hott, Gail Tarantino, Lena Wolff, Lena Wolff, Linda Simmel, Luca Antonucci, Mary Anne Kluth , Noah Wilson, Nora Pauwels, Robin McCloskey "On View: New Work from Kala" curated by Mayumi Hamanaka at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue
Ends September 15th, 2012
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Sculpture: Wanxin Zhang "Wanxin Zhang: A Ten Year Survey" at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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John Chiara, June Schwarcz "In Conversation: June Schwarcz and John Chiara" curated by Emily Anderson, John Chiara, Muriel Maffre at Richmond Art Center
Richmond: 2540 Barrett Avenue
Ends June 2nd, 2012
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Angie Wilson, Bean Gilsdorf, Evan DeSpelder, Jerome Reyes, Narangkar Glover, Paul Taylor, Sohyung Choi "Tell the truth and run!: Graduate Fellow Exhibition" curated by Dena Beard at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin Headlands: 944 Fort Barry , off Bunker Road, floor 1-4, Project Space
Ends June 3rd, 2012
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