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White Walls is pleased to present Unism, the latest solo show by internationally acclaimed Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman, opening July 6, 2013 from 7-11pm. The exhibition will be on view through August 10, 2013 and is free and open to the public. After he coined the term Calligraffiti to describe his work in 2007, artist Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman (Amsterdam, 1967) returns to San Francisco with a new phras...   [more]

Opening: July 6th   7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Join Southern Exposure this Friday, June 14, 2013 at a new bigger location for our famous, annual Monster Drawing Rally, a live drawing and fundraising event with 120 plus artists drawing side by side. The event lets spectators to observe artists in the act of creation, providing the opportunity to watch a drawing come to life, and to purchase a work of art minutes after its completion. Drawing...   [more]

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Collection ObsessionsThursday, July 18, 5–9 p.m.Samsung Hall, Free with museum admission How does inspiration ignite a passion so strong and focused as to compel a collector to collect? In conjunction with In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection, explore the passion behind a collection. With drink in hand, listen to a series of short presentations on the practice of collecting various...   [more]

Lecture

Panel Discussion & Catalogue Release: Wednesday, June 19, 7-9 pm  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC   Featuring: EG Crichton & Barbara McBane                                  Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Tina Takemoto                                                                      Chris Vargas & Greg...   [more]

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Gallery 16 is excited to announce its fourth exhibition with artist Wayne Smith. His exhibition 5 Short Holidays continues his interest in scanner-based imagery, repetitive drawing techniques, and working with found printed matter. The show will feature a new group of digital prints, collage works with imagery layered between glass and ink and pencil drawings on pieces of wood.  The show will als...   [more]

Opening: June 21st   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Join artist Yang Fudong and BAM/PFA Adjunct Senior Curator Philippe Pirotte for a conversation focusing on the protagonists of Yang’s films: young Chinese who, like the artist, have grown up in the rapidly transforming society of the new China. What are the ideals and anxieties of this generation? How do they struggle to retain personal dignity in a society adjusting to constant change? How do â€...   [more]

Artist talk

Come hear Rebar founder Matthew Passmore discusses the design process forKaleidoscape, the colorful interactive seating sculpture in Gallery B. Passmore and other members of the design team will talk about Kaleidoscape as social furniture and how artwork can improve the public realm. Founder and principal at Rebar, Matthew Passmore is an artist, urbanist, teacher, and curator. He lectures at venu...   [more]

Lecture

Rock with experimental punk group No Age, country psych band Devin Gary and Ross (with artist/designer Gary Panter), and feel-good trio Sun Foot at a music/art fest. Browse an in-gallery sidewalk art fair featuring collaborative prints made by the musicians, all of whom are also artists. Separated by thousands of miles—in studios in Los Angeles, New York, and Portland—the artists keep it old sc...   [more]

Performance

Doors 5:00Don’t miss the premiere of this new multimedia work, the culmination of Thingamajigs’s L@TE residency. A collaboration with writer Sasha Hom, the performance includes words, art, and music inspired by issues in international adoption, labyrinths, travel, and walking meditation. True to its name, the performance literally moves through the atrium gallery space during the course of...   [more]

Performance

Doors 5:00Discussion and storytelling 6:30Thingamajigs Performance Group invites like-minded Bay Area talents to join them in presenting new music, readings, and other performances on the subjects of nomadism and dislocation, belonging and disconnection. Preceded by a discussion and storytelling on related topics by local artists.   [more]

Performance

Presented in conjunction with Zarouhie Abdalian/ MATRIX 249, each of the works in this evening’s program proposes a novel treatment of the interaction between sound and the specific site of its production. Featuring works by Alvin Lucier, Maryanne Amacher, and others.   [more]

Performance

Doors 5:00Thingamajigs Performance Group partners with other local artists and performers to present a concert of new works and improvisations. A display of graphical scores and texts, part musical notation and part poetry, transforms the environment into a collaborative map.   [more]

Performance

Bring the whole family to this midday instrument workshop and learn how to make music with materials found in our everyday environment. Members of the Thingamajigs Performance Group will be on hand to demonstrate their unique instruments.   [more]

Performance

MATRIX 249 showcases the work of Oakland-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian (b. 1982), an artist whose work often responds to the specific attributes of a given location, architectural setting, or social landscape. Abdalian typically employs modest materials to produce subtle conceptual or formal effects that stage an alteration, or a shift of perception, within the immediate environment. Her work in...   [more]

We are delighted to present, for the first time in ten years, a selection of BAM/PFA’s earliest Chinese paintings. These rare and amazingly well-preserved works by early landscape and bird-and-flower painters of the late Song and early Yuan periods (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries), rendered on silk or paper with ink and light color, demonstrate the sophistication and accomplishment of the ea...   [more]

An exhibition of art works downtown staff • one night only!   Elisabeth Setten:Ancient cultures regarded trees as spiritual beings able to elevate the human consciousness to a higher plane and deepen one’s awareness of the inner self.As an artist from West Marin, I find myself pondering this question: Who am I as a human being in nature and what is my role within it?In a spontaneous coll...   [more]

Opening: June 14th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM