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The San Jose Museum of Art will highlight works by such artists as Alexander Calder, Elmer Bischoff, David Levinthal, Nathan Oliveira, Anne Appleby, and Richard Misrach in a new exhibition on view July 26, 2012-January 13, 2013. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Local Color will explore the role of color in art and encourage visitors to look at color as content. The exhibition...   [more]

Opening: July 26th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

We tend to think of nomads as age-old tribes who wandered the worlds’ deserts and plains in search of food, water, resources, or trade. But who are the nomads of the 21st century—e.g. migrant laborers, expatriates, transnationals, global high-tech virtuosos, international students, refugees, those who commute and relocate for work? Ranu Mukherjee is fascinated by the idea of the contemporary n...   [more]

Opening: August 18th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The migration to a hybrid experience of life, one that combines the physical and the digital worlds, is well underway. The newest RBI installation, New World, New Sequence, channels the intersections of organic and engineered experiences in our era of ever more mediated realities. Using sound and sensory exploration, live projection, painting, sculpture, and interactive online resources, it asks what our...   [more]

Visionary choreographer Anna Halprin performs a new version of her iconic workParades and Changes, her final staging of the piece that formed the foundation for her subsequent career. For this last staging, Halprin is reunited with her original composer, electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, longtime collaborator and lighting designer Jim Cave, and choreographer and associate director Shinichi...   [more]

Opening: February 15th   7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

opening reception:  Dec 14 • 5 - 8pm 2nd reception:  January 11 • 5 - 8pm Holiday fundraising exhibit for Marin Organic's Farm Field Studies Program; a collaboration between Art Works Downtown, Marin Organic, Marin History Museum and Art on the Farm.  Celebrate art and local farms in a fun and educational manner. Exhibit will expand through our entire 40,000 sq.ft art center. Specia...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Arpeggio and Kala Arts Institute present In Formation, the inaugural exhibition of the Arpeggio Arts Passage. Please join us for a reception on Wednesday, December 5, 6-8pm. In Formation kicks-off this new exhibition series featuring artworks from Berkeley-based artists and the Kala community. With three exhibitions yearly, Arpeggio Arts Passage looks forward to being a part of the vibrant downtown B...   [more]

Opening: December 5th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Please join us at Eleanor Harwood Gallery for Gregory Ito's upcoming solo exhibition, Moonstruck - Gregory Ito lives and works in San Francisco, CA and is the co-owner of the Ever Gold Gallery, co-founder/editor of the San Francisco Arts Quarterly (SFAQ), and recent honorary member of the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA). Ito received his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute (...   [more]

Opening: December 15th, 2012   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Intersection for the Arts presents Determining Domain, a group exhibition featuring work by seven artists – Bigface, Scott Kildall & Nathaniel Stern, Sanaz Mazinani, Farnaz Shadravan, Stephanie Syjuco, and Scott Tsuchitani – that explore complex issues regarding intellectual property and image ownership.  This exhibition about our visual landscape also features descriptions and images from leading...   [more]

Opening: November 7th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

a new leaf gallery  I  sculpturesite is pleased to present an exhibition of sculptures inspired by nature in fabricated  steel, stainless steel, bronze and aluminum by Matt Devine, Jon Krawczyk and Rob Lorenson. Most works are suitable for outdoor and indoor settings. DEVINE - Matt Devine is a self-taught Southern California sculptor, whose works can be found in private and corporate/pub...   [more]

Opening: October 6th, 2012   2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

An exhibition of ninety four spectacular jewelry pieces and twenty eight photographs from Algeria, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia that was collected over thirty years by Xavier Guerrand-Hermès of the renowned Paris-based fashion empire. This rare and stunning collection of North African jewelry and historic late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs by some of the region’s most prominent photograph...   [more]

Opening: October 5th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

On display are photographs from two of Elisabeth Sunday’s monumental series: The Tuareg Portfolio and the Anima Sequence. The Tuareg Portfolio portrays nomads who, for thousands of years, have ranged eastward across the great expanse of the Sahara Desert from eastern Mauritania through the southernmost reaches of Algeria, to the roiling dunes of northern Mali and Niger. They have long worn double-layer...   [more]

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936–1951 is the first comprehensive museum survey in three decades of the famed photography group’s work, history, artistic significance, and cultural, social, and political milieu. Drawing from two extensive Photo League museum collections housed at The Jewish Museum in New York City and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, the exhibition includes 150...   [more]

Opening: October 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM