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A cabinet contains a few small items: the heads and arms of tiny figures, a painting of a black woman in a blue dress, a white car that reads "race, kind, sort."

WA

Mar 19 - Jul 18

Lisa Myers Bulmash: Holding Patterns

Free

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.

WA

Apr 3 - Aug 22

Gary Simmons: The Engine Room

Free

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.

CA

Apr 8 - Aug 8

Gajin Fujita: Drawings

Free

Centered in the image is a red, six-leafed flower; on the left, a photo of coy evergreens; on the right, something like an inflated balloon with a hole that opens up to a cavernous center.

OR

May 15 - Jul 18

Art Beyond

Free

A swan sits on the border between movement and stillness, memory and moment. This soft impression of a swan, wrapped in the pinks and yellows and greens of spring, agrees into a shadowy black abyss.

WA

May 19 - Jul 10

Tony Scherman: The Rape of Leda

Free

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

OR

May 21 - Aug 21

Architecture of Dreams

Free

Dazzling flower shapes crowded in the center of the image, like lilies in a pond, emanate every color imaginable in rings that ebb outwards, inwards, and in every direction.

CA

May 22 - Jul 24

Even Bigger, Brighter and Bolder Serotonin, Happiness and Spiritual States Achieved Through Fibonacci, Waveforms and Capsid Symmetries by Way of Perception and Hallucination

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.

CA

May 28 - Dec 4

Next to You

Free

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

CA

Jun 3 - Aug 13

Diane Arbus: Curated by Carrie Mae Weems

Free

Portrait of a Black woman wearing gold earrings, her hair pulled behind her head and tucked into a cow-print cowboy hat. She wears a yellow western fringe shirt and stands before a field, abutted by a treeline.

CA

Jun 5 - Jul 2

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

Free

Borner lines take on shape and form and softness, as light and shadow dance across this delicate, pink canvas. Memories of crisply folded sand dunes, aurora light through morning windows, and soft, careful brushstrokes come immediately to mind.

OR

Jun 5 - Jul 3

Rachelle Bussières: sipping air

Free

Silver text fixed onto a jet black background reads "We decided to go inside the walls. This was a secret thing we had going on. W'ed come down here. We'd come home. Nobody knew nothing."

OR

Jun 5 - Jul 17

Jonathan Berger, Margaret Morton, Maria A. Prado

Free

A pile of books, all shaded monochrome soft pink, crowd the entirety of the frame. Some open, some closed, some halfway in between.

CA

Jun 5 - Jul 10

Alex McQuilkin: What We Don’t Remember Lives In Us Forever | Thomas McDonell: Me

Free

Three men hold the heads of Chinese dragons over their heads. Two of them stand on a table and tuck their white shirts into the legs and feet of the dragon. Another stands atop a pile of six red benches. Behind them is a black curtain; and beside them is a red drum and a banner, on which are printed numerous chinese characters.

CA

Jun 9 - Jul 24

Seeing Sound

Free

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

WA

Jun 11 - Aug 11

Painting Deconstructed: Selections from the Northwest Collection

Free

The words "Awe- / some / Possum" are stitched multicolor against a muted canvas background, interrupted by harsh strokes of orange, pink, brown, cream, and grey-blue.

OR

Jun 11 - Jul 17

BAPs, a solo exhibition of Jack Featherly

Free

CA

Jun 12 - Dec 4

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.

OR

Jun 12 - Aug 15

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.

CA

Jun 12 - Aug 28

Free Fall

Free

A person paints the words "Have you had a burger?" on top of a large ad, which features a photo of a burger. The photo is black and white and seems to be at night.

OR

Jun 15 - Jul 3

Have You Had a Burger?

Free

The text "POP'd" printed, seemingly, against a cardpaper background in read, just above a rectangular package wrapped in pink paper, tied with white string.

WA

Jun 15 - Jul 10

A Mini Retrospective: Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza’s POP’d

Free

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OPENING SOON

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

CA

Jun 24 - Aug 6

Nancy Rubins: Fluid Space

Free

OR

Jul 1 - Jul 16

Krystal Barrio: No Te Puedo Soportar

Free

Group show from members of the Deleuze + Guattari reading group: Tracy Grubbs, Kathleen King, Niyant Krishnamurthi, Pablo Manga, Dan Nelson, Selby Sohn. Friday, July 2, 2021 5-8pm

CA

Jul 2 | 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Who Happened?

Free

Cradled in plastic cocoon, a person is suspended upright, slumped onto their knees, naked and vulnerable like a fetus in the womb.

OR

July 16 @ 8:00 pm - July 17 @ 10:00 pm PDT

ANDROIDS IN THE TOWER

Free

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

WA

Jul 29 - Aug 28

Lux Aeterna

CLOSING SOON

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A figure walks along the edge of the water, their reflection, as well as the lush greens and subtle pinks of the well-trimmed foliage behind them, mirrored on the glassy surface without a ripple.

WA

Jan 10 - Jun 27

Kimberly Trowbridge: Into the Garden

Free

CA

Apr 1 - Jun 30

Raven Chacon: Radio Coyote

Free

The words "COLOR BURN" burst forward against a dizzying, digitally collaged background of over-saturated flowers, strawberries, and the rippling, checkered white and black of a flag.

OR

Jun 5 - Jun 27

Color Burn

Free

An extremely close photo of the words "not everything can be seen," printed lightly on textured cream paper.

OR

Jun 11 - Jun 30

Into Gentle Ruin

Free

Drawing Moments of Everyday Life with a Typewriter: Lenka Clayton at Catharine Clark Gallery

Clayton uses typewriter keys to illustrate the minutiae of life in the pandemic.

Love Letter to Kindah Khalidy

A weird, whimsical painter inspires an artist in lockdown to pick up the brush once more.

Antifascist Climate Noir: Ryan Pierce at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Chaotic scenes paint a cheeky and surreal image of capitalist futures.

Love Letter to Nancy Rubins

An L.A.-based sculptor defies gravity, formality, and convention in her monumental practice.

Love Letter to Alicia McCarthy

An painter uses her brush to dig deep into Californian culture and excavate meaning.

Supporting Community Through Letterpress, Humor, and Activism: letra chueca Interviewed

A Portland letterpress studio uses humor and community building to encourage diverse perspectives

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