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Photograph of a woman sitting on the ground, her knees held to her chest, gazing into the distance. Behind her on a black, wooden floor, objects such as books, candles, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a bowl are strewn. In the right-hand corner of the frame, more candles and various artifacts sit atop a table covered in white tablecloth. Just behind the woman, a patterned scarf is draped around the neck of an upright torso of a mannequin.

WA

Jan 30 - Apr 25

Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts

Free

CA

Mar 1 - Jul 14

SITES OF POWER

Free

This piece, using cut paper and hand-printed color, depicts two small children — one, a boy, slightly older than the other, a girl — standing back to back, arms crossed, with grins on their faces. The girl is wearing a short sleeved dress; the boy, a patterned shirt.

WA

Mar 5 - Nov 24

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence

Free

This sweeping painting elongates the limbs of its subjects' raised fists, so they appear mountainous, triangular, and dynamic. The bottom and middle of the frame is crowded with individuals of this form, creating the sensation that a group is on the verge of riot. In the top left, a man in black garb leans forward, stretching his body across the top of the piece, pointing his finger. Deep, dark colors, including shades of brown, black, red, green, and one sharp flash of blue, dominate this piece.

WA

Mar 5 - May 23

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle

Free

Acrylic, handwritten iterations of the letter "S" and "Z" meander from a white panel on the ground up onto a white wall, some in broken into parts, others in thick, globby lines.

CA

Mar 6 - May 30

The Inconstant World

Free

Before red, white, and blue polling booths, images of Peanuts characters are superimposed to appear life-sized. Charlie Brown holds an apple on a stick, while Lucy van Pelt bobs for hers in a bucket of water.

CA

Mar 6 - May 30

Paul Pescador: PSA

Free

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

$25

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

$25

Two figures lean against a bed together, the one behind with their arms and legs wrapped behind the other. A figure stands in the doorway behind them and has their hand on the lightswitch. Only the three figures' hands and faces are detailed; the rest of their bodies are outlines and filled with pastel colors.

OR

Mar 11 - Apr 18

Pace Taylor: I hear voices from the other room, but I can’t make out the words

Free

Photograph of a figure that seems to be a rock, which is aglow with a multitude of colors, primarily red, yellow, blue, purple, set against a uniform dark background.

OR

Mar 12 - May 2

Unquiet Objects

Free

Woman strapped down to a hospital bed by her ankles, thighs, hands, and chest, her eyes closed. The text below the photo reads "But thank god everything turned out alright,"

CA

Mar 13 - Apr 24

Traces on the Surfaces of the World

Free

crude sketch of a rural scene made combining soot and saliva on found paper—features the facade of a farmhouse, a shed, a white barn, a windmill, a fence. The ground is a light shade of grey; the sky, the naked, off-white of the paper.

OR

Mar 19 - Apr 17

Dear John

Free

Vivid painting of two figures, saturated with deep reds, earthy yellows, purples, greens, and blues. The figures lean over a "body" on an operating table and methodologically tend to its organs, which are made of various fruits, including strawberries, bananas, and raspberries

CA

Mar 20 - May 1

Summer Wheat: Anything Can Happen

Free

An amalgamation of countless smooth, crinkled, and bubbly textures, with luminous and muted shades of black. Two socks float across the center of the work, suspended to the collage with round, white push pins.

CA

Mar 20 - May 15

Brenna Youngblood: the LIGHT and the DARK

Free

Black, white, and grey abstract weavings made using a computer algorithm. The piece is made up of two woven rectangles hung next to each other, and each has zig zagging lines of various tones creating a glitchy stripe pattern.

WA

Mar 20 - Apr 24

Jovencio de la Paz: The Ghost and the Maze

Free

A square, black and white photograph of a boy's face with another square of red centered over it, all atop an aluminum screen painted red, against a red background.

OR

Mar 24 - May 22

Paul Lee: Tambourine Heart

Free

Two paintings hanging side by side in a gallery space, above concrete flooring, below wood support beams. Both arrange two-dimensional human figures in geometric rows, all of which interact with each other, some lying on the ground, others seated at tables, leaning against each other, etc.

Mar 26 - May 1

Andrea Joyce Heimer: Lonely Hunter

Free

In a flurry of motion and surrealist animation, this painting captures multiple dizzying happenings at once—potatoes tumbling out of a cardboard box, pink-colored wine spilling out of a broken bottle, a snake wrapping itself around a tree branch, a pitchfork impaling a cake, a wig, a shoe, balloons, so on.

OR

Apr 1 - May 29

Ryan Pierce: Awake Under Vines

Free

Overlayed floral shapes, colored using rich, earthly reds, browns, yellows, and pinks, blurring the line between two- and three-dimensional.

OR

Apr 1 - May 29

Charlene Liu: Lattice

Free

3D rendering of a hand, which seems to be constructed out of a brass-colored metal and holds what could be an eye in its hand, the cornea of which is a hexagonal screw head.

CA

Apr 1 - Apr 1

Pieces of Me: NFT Exhibition

Free

A smartphone hangs upside down by its charging cable, which is draped over the edge of a large, flat, rock-like pink object with rounded edges. The image on the screen of the phone is similar to the sculpture but in blue.

WA

Apr 1 - May 1

What’s Different?

Free

A sculpture piecing together layers of fabric and yarn in an oval shape, growing darker nearer the center where lies a resin cast flower, evoking the sensation of an ovular, tectonic inside.

WA

Apr 1 - Jun 2

Colleen RJC Bratton: Endometrial Atmosphere

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

Stark, geometric painting using rich, earthy colors and lines that divide interrupt, follow and work alongside each other. With no concentric focal point, the eye wanders from one puzzle piece to the next, each color its own world, shape and feeling entirely.

OR

Apr 3 - May 1

New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee

Free

Shot over the shoulders of two individuals holding paint brushes above Japanese characters on paper. Below and atop the image, text reads: "CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH EXHIBITION GARRICK IMATANI: MONOLOGUE."

OR

Apr 3 - May 1

Garrick Imatani: Monologues

Free

Poster for "NUESTRO CAMINO EXHIBITION," with the dates, address and other misc. information running along the bottom against a hot pink background. A large, white cowboy hat dominates the foreground, with a hazy gold backdrop, a view of a vintage car through a window, and glimmering text hovering behind and above.

OR

Apr 3 - Apr 25

Nuestro Camino

Free

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OPENING SOON

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Colorful collage made of cut paper, using curved lines and circular, two-dimensional, geometric shapes to invigorate a stripped, layered, cacophonous sense of motion and sound. Bright yellows, cool blacks, and subtle accents of red and blue enwrap this piece in boldness and warmth.

OR

Apr 8 - May 27

Along These Lines

Free

Two, side-by-side paintings, featuring multiple objects hovering mid-air, including doves, a pocket watch, a raven holding a rose, multi-colored clouds — on the left, a boy suspended by a balloon, his arms resting in his lap; on the right, a boy rising in the air alongside a balloon.

CA

Apr 10 - May 8

Ameh Egwuh: Life After Life

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

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.

CA

Jul 10 - Aug 14

Daniel Crews-Chubb

Free

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Dynamic pencil drawing of a contorted individual, their legs lifted in the air nearly over their head, their arm outstretched and reaching out of frame, creating the sense that they are mid-jump.

WA

Jan 7 - Apr 17

Selma Waldman: A Conversation Through Time & Space

Free

Image of a seated figure wearing a white, sleeveless top grips the edge of their chair, which is balanced on the ridge of a roof. The rest of the frame is dominated by a blue sky with wisps of white cloud cover. Powerlines interrupt an otherwise very minimal scene.

CA

Mar 13 - Apr 17

Chantal Peñalosa: There’s Something About the Weather of this Place

Free

A white canvas levitates in a gallery space. Beside it, a framed image with an orange, suspended by an object; beside that, a branch reaches out of the wall with a single orange dangling on its end.

CA

Mar 13 - Apr 16

Of Other Spaces

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