Interview

On Power, Art(s) Labor, and Resting in the Grass: Eden V. Evans and Brian Gillis Interviewed

Love Letters

Love Letter to Patty Gone

Review

Imagining Caregiving as Constant: Contact Traces at the Wattis Institute

Love Letters

Love Letter to Torbjørn Rødland

Review

Residential Intimacies: Shoccara Marcus Choreographs the Past and the Present at Wa Na Wari

Interview

Chasing Ephemerality, Cheating Precarity: On Publishing During a Pandemic: Sarah Chieko Bonnickson and Gordon Fung Interviewed

Love Letters

Love Letter to Gillian Theobald

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Fragments of stairs, couch cushions, houseplants and windows flash in and out of clarity, as blocks of colors of lines glitch in and out of sight.

WA

May 27 - Sep 30

Being, Sensing, Dwelling: recent works by Emily Somoskey

Foundry Vineyards

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.

CA

Jul 1 - Dec 1

Looking Back: 10 Years of Pier 24 Photography

Pier 24 Photography

Antebellum shirts with beaded seams and ironed collars of numerous colors float ominously along the wall of a gallery space hallway at torso height.

OR

Jul 17 - Sep 30

Untouchable Artifacts

Five Oaks Museum

A figure wearing a white shirt, blue patterned tie, and white hat cranes toward the sun. Two figures beyond them and before a tree stare forward.

WA

Jul 30 - Nov 28

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection

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.

OR

Aug 5 - Oct 2

Lonnie Holley – The Influence of Images

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

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.

OR

Aug 5 - Oct 2

Dinh Q. Lê – Monuments and Memorials

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

An installation photo of a gallery space, with a helmet-wearing bust atop a pedestal, numerous, multi-sized orbs scattered around the ground, and bells hanging on ropes from the ceiling.

CA

Aug 21 - Oct 2

The Measure of Things: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The text "Prototypes" repeated twice in black typeface, the words "What is an appropriate monument or memorial for our time and place" separating the two.

OR

Aug 25 - Oct 9

Prototypes

Converge 45

In a brilliant display of cosmologies, color, flora, and element, this landscape work blends saturated and undulating movement with a sense of metaphysical wonder.

Aug 29 - Oct 23

Christine Nguyen

AMcE Creative Arts

Close up of the evocative face of sculpture, formed using a soft black material, and accented with found materials, such as a green floral mask, the mouthpiece cut out, and eyes in the shape of hearts, bedazzled around the edges.

WA

Sep 1 - Dec 31

Vanessa German: W E

Wa Na Wari

WA

Sep 1 - Sep 30

BETWEEN THE FRAMES | a film program engaging stories of human connection

BLACK CINEMA COLLECTIVE

Multi-colored hexagons are scattered across a white background, tethered together with thin wire, a magenta stripped blob invading the center, like a hot air balloon grazing past clouds.

OR

Sep 2 - Oct 2

Print Wall: Jacob Hashimoto

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Black-and-white photograph of individual wearing hoop earrings and a hoodie, with smoke pluming from their mouth and in front of their face.

OR

Sep 2 - Oct 2

Al J Thompson: Remnants of an Exodus

Blue Sky

The word "here" is fixed to the bottom left of a photograph, the words "was always spent," something marked out, and then "there" are fixed to the bottom right. The photo itself depicts a piece of clothing hanging on a wooden bar.

WA

Sep 2 - Oct 2

here was always spent there

SOIL

A photo collage, wherein the painted eyes and forehead of an individual are superimposed over a dated photograph of a boy wearing a collared shirt and tie, against a dreamy landscape background.

OR

Sep 2 - Oct 2

Gary Burnley: The Known World

Blue Sky

Three square blocks are lined up in a row, each with a smoothed hole in the center that decrease in size with each cube, all against a hazy white background.

CA

Sep 3 - Oct 23

Wind Over Water

Chris Kerr

In a gallery space, against a white wall, to the left, multiple pieces of paper are organized on the wall; to the right, a large piece, covered in paint, spray paint, and other materials hangs.

Sep 3 - Oct 30

THE GLITTER ANTHOL-OH-GEEZE: Mia Winters & Mars Alien

Gather:Make:Shelter

Fragments of eyebrows, hair, nose, ear converge and overlap in the center of the image, in a vague, sharp-angled form.

OR

Sep 4 - Sep 26

But of course it’s hard to tell

Well Well

Woman with long, wavy-brown hair is seated with crossed legs before her artwork—four different sized pieces with blocks and blobs of color leant against a white wall.

OR

Sep 4 - Oct 2

Mia Farrington | Place

Stephanie Chefas Projects

Colored blocks of all shapes—one a keyhole, one the letter "J," one a stalagmite, one a vase—are stacked closely together and atop each other against a white background.

OR

Sep 4 - Nov 2

Nathan Paul Rice ‘Mini Parc’

Stephanie Chefas Projects

Two hand-sculpted forms set beside each other—one is white and supports a vase, a long arm arched over the side to support it; another stands erect, a lanky spire with a wider bottom and a narrow neck.

OR

Sep 5 - Oct 18

Dawn Cerny: Pleasure Garden

SE Cooper Contemporary

Blue, yellow and red lightning bolts of color interrupt a background of otherwise fluid, textured, multicolored ripples—in the foreground and center, an oval of white, the outlines of curved letters and shapes seemingly sketched and then erased.

CA

Sep 7 - Oct 16

William T. Wiley: MONUMENTAL

Hosfelt Gallery

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OPENING SOON

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Blue, yellow and red lightning bolts of color interrupt a background of otherwise fluid, textured, multicolored ripples—in the foreground and center, an oval of white, the outlines of curved letters and shapes seemingly sketched and then erased.

CA

Sep 7 - Oct 16

William T. Wiley: MONUMENTAL

Hosfelt Gallery

The text, "The Missing Circle, El Circulo que faltaba" is centered left against a photograph of a sprawling desert and a small cemetery in the bottom left of the frame.

CA

Sep 8 - Jan 8

The Missing Circle, curated by Magalí Arriola

Kadist

Blue-tinted monochrome photograph of a woman's face with overlaid primary colored rectangles arranged in a grid

CA

Sep 9 - Oct 23

Carrie Mae Weems: Witness

Fraenkel Gallery

Two bodies, their body hair, features, and proportions cartoonishly and lovingly exaggerated, are tangled in pleasure, one enwrapped in the legs of another.

CA

Sep 11 - Oct 1

Jeffrey Cheung: Did you know love is healing?

pt.2 Gallery

Image of two concentric, dark circles in the middle of a vast landscape with a mountain range at the horizon and the sunrise shining over the top of the mountain through the middle of the circles.

OR

Sep 11 - Sep 26

Thunderstruck 2.0: black hole sun

Carnation Contemporary

Figures bleed in and out of the foreground, most gazing off somewhere, with mountain, cloud, sun, water, structure, and path all blended and pinkish, the ground blood red.

CA

Sep 14 - Dec 4

Maia Cruz Palileo: Long Kwento

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

The words "TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL" in bold, centered against a green background. Various information about the show above and below.

OR

Sep 16 - Oct 3

Time-Based Art Festival

pica

A clear box full of multi-sized cream and yellow cubes casts a long shadow against a white wall.

OR

Sep 18 - Oct 24

Gina Han: Recollection

Agenda

Like the undulating interior of a beehive, this piece combines hundreds of small cylinders of wood to form a porous, contorting wall.

CA

Sep 18 - Oct 30

Yvonne Mouser: The Shape of Time

Municipal Bonds

In this lightly geometric landscape, the bare trunks of trees stand sparse against a cream-grey sky, beyond a sharp-edged pile of boulders that dominate the foreground.

WA

Sep 18 - Nov 6

Mya Kerner: These Whispers, These Tellings

With wide brush strokes, a white coat is adorned with colorful paint, just behind which a Black face with short hair watches expressionless, arms crossed, with figures shuffling past in the background.

CA

Sep 18 - Oct 30

Coady Brown: Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars

Shulamit Nazarian

An image, incredibly close, of an eye—the surface of the image smudged and blurred by fingerprints.

CA

September 18 @ 6:30 pm - December 12 @ 8:00 pm PDT

TABITHA SOREN: SURFACE TENSION | OPENING RECEPTION

Mills College Art Museum

An individual in a puffy jacket, carrying a bag, is dwarfed by decrepid high-rise buildings, yawning, weed-ridden streets, and an apocalyptic, clouded sky.

OR

Sep 24 - Jan 16

THE ART OF THE NEWS: COMICS JOURNALISM

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

The words "Here and Now" in large print, as well as show information, featured artists and PlayGround Team, superimposed in white against a wall of peeling paint.

OR

Sep 25 - Oct 10

Here And Now

Playground Gallery

The words "A Shrine for a Shrine" are painted onto the bottom of a canvas, which combines dizzying patterns of multi-colored paint, multiple glued materials, such as beads and tin foil, as well as a photo of the back of a car, the window of which reads "In Memory Of Robert LaVoy Finicum."

Oct 5 - Dec 9

Bruce Burris: A Shrine for a Shrine

Schneider Museum of Art

Two photos of women side by side—one with a blue shirt and collar-bone-length, curly hair, standing before art; another with shoulder length hair and a short-sleeved black top against a curtain of chains.

CA

Oct 6 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Tabitha Soren: Sarah Thornton in Conversation

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

WA

Oct 8 - Dec 27

In Crystalized Time

Museum of Museums

An individual lies on a couch, naked, with their back to the viewer—kneeling beside the bed, another holds a mirror, in which the first views themselves.

OR

Oct 19 - Nov 27

Re:Pose – Subverting the Gendered Gaze in the Historical Nude

Stephen O'Donnell

CLOSING SOON

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Painting of an aerial view of the Golden Gate Bridge packed with protestors, who are marching across it. The one lane of traffic on the bridge is stopped, bumper to bumper,. In the background, water from a flat San Francisco Bay meanders under the bridge.

CA

Mar 7 - Sep 22

Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis

SFMOMA

Photograph of a grid wall of black and white square prints, before which are arranged desks, chairs, and a long table. A sign with the word "Director" rests on one of the desks.

CA

Mar 7 - Sep 22

Off the Wall

A portion of a sheet of music, the title reading "Princes and Powers (After Baldwin). In between the top two clefs, lyrics reading "speech in the afternoon, dealing with the relation between ... today can be summed up thus, said Cesaire: that" is spaced out, to match the rhythm of the written music.

CA

Mar 7 - Sep 22

Charles Gaines: New Work

SFMOMA

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.

WA

Apr 9 - Sep 26

Dawn Cerny: Les Choses

Seattle Art Museum

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 - Sep 25

Lyrical Coherence

Murdoch Collectoins

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

CA

Aug 15 - Sep 25

Zamin Project

Aggregate Space Gallery

Near the center of a woven grey canvas, small, knitted yellow buds flower outwards to form a circle.

OR

Sep 1 - Oct 9

Heather Watkins: still—moving

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