Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves
Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CATikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves presents works by thirty Bay Area–based contemporary artists reflecting on the Jewish concept of tikkun (Hebrew for “to repair”).
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CADrawing from years of material research, Lin has created a new body of work that is grounded in the uncanny sense of isolation yet collective experience that has marked our lives during these pandemic years.
Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists
Museum of Sonoma County 425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CACollective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists features art by contemporary Black artists who have participated in interdisciplinary collectives. Collectives have served both the revolutionary and creative practices of Black, queer, and femme people across the diaspora. The artworks in Collective Arising—which includes textile, sculpture, glass, print, painting, photography, video, and installation—speak to this dual purpose at the core of the formation of artist collectives.
One Day Neon Art Immersive With Roxy Rose
Museum of Neon Art 216 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CAExperience the entire process of bending neon, from glass to glow! Each student will head home with their own handmade experimental work. Get into the soft flame of the ribbon fire to make your own neon gesture.
by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CABest known as a core member of Fluxus, the avant-garde art group founded in 1962, Alison Knowles has created groundbreaking experiments that have influenced contemporary art and artists for over fifty years. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
At the Table
Armory Center for the Arts 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CAAt the Table is a group exhibition that explores our intimate and communal relationships with food and investigates the many ways these connections were severed or challenged during the 2020-21 lockdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through artworks, documentary photography, recorded narratives, and ephemera, this exhibition creates space for reflection on the role food plays in our lives as individuals and in our communities and traces the effects of the pandemic on the ways we interact with and consume food.
Clement Valla: Scanners
bitforms gallery SF 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CAClement Valla collects environmental data through an intricate process of photography and three-dimensional scanning. His highly specific procedures convert natural objects into data systems. Through the artist’s work with diverse software he explores issues of mediated and computer vision in respect to the natural world. Scanners presents Valla’s exploration of the technical aspects of picture-making.
Composed Surfaces
Round Weather 951 Aileen St., Oakland, CAComposed Surfaces is an exhibition of paintings by Alexandra Bowes, Vicky Colombet, Tyler Cross, Sally Egbert, Prajakti Jayavant, and Javier Manrique.
Marco Maggi: Tiny Tyrannies
Hosfelt Gallery 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CAMaggi's shapes suggest meaning — alphabets of unknown languages, computer circuitry, Google Earth imaging of vaguely familiar cities — but no matter how much you puzzle over them, the forms are ultimately inexplicable.
Peter Hujar curated by Elton John
Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CAA fifty-photograph survey of Hujar’s celebrated career.
ODYSSEY: Solange Roberdeau, Sarah Koik, Danielle Dimston
Municipal Bonds 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CAThis trio show presents drawings on paper and ceramic sculptures in a narrative informed in part by themes from Homer's epic poem.
Alexis Smith: The American Way
MCASD 700 Prospect St., La Jolla, CASmith’s collages combine found texts, images, and objects to underscore and exaggerate how we are shaped by the media and culture that surround us.
Measuring Consciousness
CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions 1401 16th St, San Francisco, CACULT Aimee Friberg is pleased to announce Measuring Consciousness, a solo exhibition of batik painting, ceramic and stone sculptures by the artist Zhivago Duncan.
Fabricave
Creativity Explored 3245 16th Street, San Francisco, CAIn the studios and from home, CE artists interested in needle crafts have expanded their horizons by experimenting with technique, scale, and materials to consider their practice from the perspective of sculpture.
HALIMAW: Rialin José with Online Performance by Xuvenir
onlineMata Art Gallery Presents HALIMAW A solo exhibition of visual artworks by Rialin José opening…
Joan Didion: What She Means
Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CAOpening less than a year after her death at age 87, and planned since 2019, Joan Didion: What She Means follows a meandering chronology that grapples with the simultaneously personal and distant evolution of Didion’s voice as a writer and pioneer of the “New Journalism.”
Bessma Khalaf Artist Lecture
Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CABessma Khalaf utilizes photography, video, sculpture, and performance to explore the boundaries of landscape, place, and image