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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
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Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Driss Ouadahi
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Hosfelt Gallery More times »
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Hosfelt Gallery presents two new exhibitions that remind us that it is indeed hip to be square — though Düsseldorf-based Driss Ouadahi and West Coaster... View details »
Driss Ouadahi
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Takeshi Murata
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
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...  the exhibition's sumptuous title would suggest, there's a taste of both the profound and the profane lurking in Takeshi Murata's video pieces. His... View details »
Takeshi Murata
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Jamie Vasta
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery More times »
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Anyone who's been keeping an eye on Patricia Sweetow Gallery during the past year or so must have noticed San Francisco-based Jamie Vasta's work tucked... View details »
Jamie Vasta
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Forrest Williams
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
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In Williams' latest show, the theme of porches stands for a state of uncertainty, an in-between space that's neither interior nor exterior. It proves to... View details »
Forrest Williams
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Alyson Belcher
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Robert Tat Gallery More times »
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Best classified as falling between 19th-century spirit photography and Edward Muybridge's motion studies, Alyson Belcher's spectral self-portraits add a graceful and eerie contribution to the... View details »
Alyson Belcher
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Douglas Gordon
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
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Dracula
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Cartoon Art Museum More times »
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his drawings maintaining a darkly... View details »
Dracula
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Olafur Eliasson
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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Bachelor Machines Part I
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
For the past few years, London-based artist and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi (winner of a Beck's Futures Award) has received great acclaim for her quiet, poignant... View details »
Bachelor Machines Part I
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Pioneers
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
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Amid its recent spat of new exhibitions and edgy curation, CCA's marvelous Wattis Institute pays aesthetical tithes to those Bay Area artists whose vanguard practices... View details »
Pioneers
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (9:30am–8:45pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
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Derek Boshier
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11:30am–5:30pm) @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts More times »
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... own for being a part of the '60s London scene, self-proclaimed "populist artist" Derek Boshier draws inspiration from magazine covers, both real... View details »
Derek Boshier
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Super Heroes Super Villains
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
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In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories of real-life warriors. This... View details »
Super Heroes Super Villains
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A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos' dynamic sculptural constructions are... View details »
A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection
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Bulk
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not to mention a healthy... View details »
Bulk
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Recent Works
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Electric Works More times »
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... than Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl architecture. Even with all... View details »
Recent Works
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Sweet Sunny Temper
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Double Punch Toy Store More times »
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... th prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails, and a serious attitude... View details »
Sweet Sunny Temper
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A Memory of Shadows and Stone
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
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Westerners tend to impose self-created "exotic" qualities on Asian cultures when faced with interpreting the Far East. Artist Will Rogan avoids this trap in his... View details »
A Memory of Shadows and Stone
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Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Galería de la Raza More times »
Free
In the summer of 2006, Oaxaca — renowned for its legacy of vibrant culture and dazzling celebrations — became the locus of Mexico's popularly supported... View details »
Oaxaca: Aquí No Pasa Nada
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The Temporal Moving Image
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Haines Gallery More times »
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Though born of different generations whose aesthetic movements were fueled by disparate forces, the works of Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, and Kota Ezawa all... View details »
The Temporal Moving Image
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Displaced
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ John Berggruen Gallery More times »
Free
Displaced
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Art: Architecture/Design
The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Book Club of California More times »
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When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and moribund imagination to others.... View details »
The Book Art of Edward Gorey