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The words "Energy Drink" shimmer in neon, just below receding layers of doorways, the closes a deep blue, then a hazy red, a fire lime, pink, and then the shadowed doorway itself.

Aug 5

All day

Brian Sanchez and Neon Saltwater: Energy Drink

$10

Collage of various posters, clippings, images—jumbled together and divided into three distinct side-by-side panels, each saturated a different color: red, green and blue, from left to right.

Aug 5

All day

Gary Simmons: The Engine Room

Free

A skeleton of a changing screen is arranged in the center of a gallery space, some of the bones yellow, others white. Scraps of what could be linen are draped over the bars.

Aug 5

All day

Dawn Cerny: Les Choses

$19.99

In monochromatic, soft pink hues, curtains that drape over a corner window haunt the background of this extremely faded and washed photograph.

Aug 5

All day

Architecture of Dreams

Free

Yellow poster with two abstract human forms, one orange and one pink. Text reads: "McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. Open for exploration. Admission is free. 1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco, CA 94107. mcevoyarts.org. NEXT TO YOU: May 28 - December 4, 2021.

Aug 5

All day

Next to You

Free

Black and white photograph of a young man seated in a park smiling gently at the viewer.

Aug 5

All day

Diane Arbus: Curated by Carrie Mae Weems

Free

The stages of the moon are painted on strips of blue and grey and black, each in sequence, in a massive grid.

Aug 5

All day

Painting Deconstructed: Selections from the Northwest Collection

Free

Aug 5

All day

Kronos Festival: Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK

Free

Beside a blue chair, a small table holds two books, stacked atop each other—the title of the book on top is "Confessions Jessica Jackson Hutchins"—and a small pink sculpture, which bulges and reaches and points, with limbs of two dimensional shape and curve.

Aug 5

All day

Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart

Free

A bright red apple is falling past the camera lens, creating a blur of color, all against a green, leaved background.

Aug 5

All day

Free Fall

Free

In a circle on a white floor, seven carved wooden sculptures of different shapes and sizes are arranged. Some rectangular, some cylindrical, some squatting, some more upright. On the white walls behind these, seven pieces of art hang on the walls.

Aug 5

All day

Three Forms: JB Blunk

Free

Seven black and white images hand on the blue walls of a narrowing gallery space, each equally sized with one in the far, center wall. All seem to be portraits of renaissance-era figures.

Aug 5

All day

Looking Back: 10 Years of Pier 24 Photography

Free

A still from a video, in which a hand presses a photo onto a green grid using blue painters tape, beside other black and white photos of similar sizes.

Aug 5

All day

Feel Good Pictures

Free

An image of shaded blinds is curled into a tight spiral, warping reality into a near, contained shape.

Aug 5

All day

TIN

Free

A cartoonish house, with a stone chimney and imbricated pink tiles, squats, blubbery and soft against a similarly cartoonish backdrop of rolling, grey hills.

Aug 5

All day

Catherine Wagner: Clues to Civilization

Free

Two faces, crudely sketched and superimposed over each other, stare blankly. Splashes of color, ink, charcoal, sprayed paint all converge to create a chaotic backdrop, which is also seems to swallow the faces.

Aug 5

All day

Daniel Crews-Chubb

Free

Blocks of colors—green, black, yellow, teal—are separated by the thinnest slivers of white and contain an array of shades, subtle differences in texture, reminiscent of the process of drying.

Aug 5

All day

Austin Thomas: Metropolis

Free

The text, "Soft Ambition / Renee Couture & Carolyn Hopkins / Opening: July 10 6-9pm / july 10 - Aug 15, 2021" is separated by an image of someone riding a horse, carrying a billowing white flag—a vast landscape of grass, hills, and a hazy mountain at sunset stretch into the distance.

Aug 5

All day

Renee Couture and Carolyn Hopkins: Soft Ambition

Free

Individuals in football uniforms kneel in a line with their arms hooked together, most of them looking down. Others stand behind them and link arms.

Aug 5

All day

Exchange the Experience

Free

In a pink haze of submarine wonder, jellyfish, crustacean, and underwater etchings float to the foreground, behind which a naked individual swims downward to gaze into its own reflection in a mirror.

Aug 5

All day

Lila de Magalhaes: Soup of the Night

Free

A tapestry of fabric, patched together, includes the belt loop from denim pants, black and white checkered fabric—is torn, or maybe burned, with gaping holes in the center.

Aug 5

All day

Resound: Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Frankie Krupa Vahdani

Free

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OPENING SOON

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The words "Lux Aeterna—" carved, in sharp white, into engulfing black.

Aug 5

All day

Lux Aeterna

A square painting, dominated by the converging white lines of shattered glass, hangs above a wooden chair and a white surfboard, leaning against the wall on its side.

Aug 5

All day

Joe Horner: OUTSIDE DOG

Free

A globby, sculpted figure sits atop a wooden box and the fabric draped over part of it. Painted white and teal-blue, what could be wings or fins or flippers wave playfully.

Aug 5

All day

Kelsey Hamilton Davis: In the House of Weird Sisters

Free

Silhouettes of faces overlap and echo and inhale luminescent smoke, in this hazy, ghoulish half-way of an image. Caught in between materialization, chain-link fence , chains and searchlights disappear behind shadows of mouths open, waiting to speak.

Aug 5

All day

Lonnie Holley – The Influence of Images

Free

A photograph of a metal bed frame with a straw pillow, situated before an open temple door, is distorted by countless, missing sections removed from it, like missing puzzle pieces or an image half-loaded.

Aug 5

All day

Dinh Q. Lê – Monuments and Memorials

Free

Photograph of an old white theatre before brown green desert hills, the name neon "GEM" blank white in the daylight and "STAR WARS" fixed on the marquee.

Aug 5

All day

Ingeborg Gerdes: Out West

Free

A collage piece appears first to be a photograph of a houseplant sitting in a pot with a fabric backdrop, some of its leaves taped to that backdrop. Instead, some portions are replaced with drawings on portions of paper, painting, sketches, a work finished and unfinished.

Aug 7

All day

Nature Inside

Free

Bloodied teeth, tape, and either plastic or glass rest on satin red fabric. The flash from a camera creates shimmers in the fabric and the front few teeth.

Aug 10

All day

Madison Queen: The Gallery of Metamorphics

Free

To the left, an aerial image of round, porous objects arranged against a black background. To the right, a computer-generated image of bulbous shapes expanding away from the words "Lyrical Coherence."

Aug 14

August 14 @ 3:00 pm - September 25 @ 7:00 pm PDT

Lyrical Coherence

Free

A white square with Zamin Project participants, founder, and moderator names above and below a circular geometric graphic element.

Aug 15

All day

Zamin Project

Free

Animal hair and shards of glass are fixed onto a wide bracelet, which sits on white textured fabric.

Aug 17

All day

Douglas Wiltshire: Cocooning

Free

On two white panels, knots and tangles of orange, yellow, black and hints of blue are arranged in two clusters that nearly mirror each other.

Sep 4

All day

Joan Mitchell

$25

The words, "In Crystalized time," in translucent text, hovers before a blurred, ice blue background.

Oct 8

All day

In Crystalized Time

$10

CLOSING SOON

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Edo-period style head of a Japanese man, his eyes fixed somewhere out of frame. Harsh and decisive strokes of spray paint pop off of pencil sketches in shiny blacks, ruby reds and subtle naked accents.

Aug 5

All day

Gajin Fujita: Drawings

Free

Abstract ribbony sculpture made of various metals installed outdoors in a California landscape

Aug 5

All day

Nancy Rubins: Fluid Space

Free

The words "Ido Radon, Mother of Pearl Gasoline Slick, July 10 - August 7, 2021" are written in thin, gothic font against a rich purple background.

Aug 5

All day

Ido Radon: Mother of Pearl Gasoline Slick

Free

An artist wearing a white, v-neck t-shirt and black jeans stands before their art—blue, smoothed and rounded figures in various poses and flowers against black—hanging on a white wall.

Aug 7

11:00 am - 7:00 pm

“Nowhere Else To Go But Within” by Jocelyn Tsaih at Glass Rice

Free

Love Letter to Patricia Hagen

A Port Townsend-based painter ponders the simultaneity of life and death in her portraits of stumps.

Going Through the Motions: Speculations on Birth in Patricia Piccinini’s The Awakening

A surreal birthing video situates viewers in an uncomfortable, yet fruitful space.

Interrogation Through Ritual: Chris Eckert Interviewed

Chris Eckert discusses how his sculpting process gives him a space to consider the big questions of the digital age

Love Letter to Suzanne Shifflett

A Long Beach-based painter subverts the fetishization of the female body through bold portraits.

Love Letter to Anna Valdez

An artist’s use of color breathes new life into normal, everyday scenes.

Neon Abundance Highlights Our Lack of Substance: Energy Drink at Museum of Museums

A wholly artificial environment satirizes our superficial world.

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