If A Tree Falls: Art Of The Boundary Oak
Bedford Gallery 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek, CAIf a Tree Falls: Art of the Boundary Oak memorializes the City of Walnut Creek’s signature…
Martine Gutierrez: Half-Breed
Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CAActing as both subject and producer, Gutierrez explores the multiplicity and complexity of identity in a series of pop-influenced narrative scenes.
dawn_chorusiii: the fruit they don’t have here | 破曉歌聲 iii: 這裏沒有的水果 | coro_del_alba iii: la fruta que no tienen aquí
Chinese Culture Center 750 Kearny st, 3rd Fl, San Fracisco, CAThis work is about the birds, rivers, trees, fruit, forests, apartment blocks, and the people and streets of six lives and the forces that lead one to leave the treasured and familiar behind.
XX @ XV: 15th Anniversary Group Show
Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th Street, Oakland, CAMercury 20 Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition celebrating its 15th year as an artist-run gallery.
Michelle Yi Martin: In Medias Res
Municipal Bonds 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CAThrough these varied structural forms, she explores convergences of history and heritage, minimalism and adornment, material and light.
Color Study
Hosfelt Gallery 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CAIn every instance, these works are remarkable not only for the gorgeousness of color and mysteriousness of process, but also because of the tranquility they exude.
Datum
Hosfelt Gallery 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CAIronically and satisfyingly, the highly intellectual process of creating these works — grounded in physics and color theory — generates supremely sensuous and transcendent paintings.
Cody Hudson: Daydreaming and Near-Death Experience
Left Field Gallery 1036 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, CA
Solange Roberdeau and Jochen Holz
Blunk Space 11101 highway 1, #105, Pt. Reyes Station, CATheir additions of lusters and gilding, wood rubbings and textures, add depth and richness to the work.
High Plains
Johansson Projects 2300 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CARanging in mediums from exposures on gelatin silver photo paper, to reclaimed wood lath constructions, and layered painting and drawing on canvas, these three artists use unique vocabularies to compose reflections of individual experience.
“Outside the open window” Exhibition at Andra Norris Gallery
Andra Norris Gallery 1107 Burlingame Ave, Burlingame, CABay Area artist April Dawn Parker will be featured in a show at Andra Norris…
Image Gardeners
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts 1150 25th Street, San Francisco, CAIn opposition to Susan Sontag’s theory that photography is a “voracious way of seeing,” an image gardener employs photographic seeing as a means of cultivation, preservation, and collaboration.
seen only, heard only through someone else’s description
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts 1150 25th Street, San Francisco, CADrawing Energy is concerned with communities of women and their collective power to document and deeply engage with artistic, cultural, or familial lineages.
Hayal Pozanti: Lingering
Jessica Silverman Gallery San Francisco, CAJessica Silverman is pleased to announce Lingering, on view from January 15 to February 26, 2022.…
Julian Hoeber: Relief from Pictures
Jessica Silverman Gallery San Francisco, CAJessica Silverman is pleased to announce Julian Hoeber: Relief From Pictures, on view from January 15…
PERSONAL TO POLITICAL: CELEBRATING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF THE PAULSON FONTAINE PRESS
Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CAThis powerful exhibition of figurative and abstract artworks channels the poetics of the human experience from past and present and boldly presents ideas about history, identity, personal stories, and spiritual inspiration.
UNSEEN: THE HIDDEN LABOR OF WOMEN
Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CAAt a moment when Mills is transitioning away from its identity as an historically women’s college, Unseen celebrates the power and legitimacy of women’s experiences.
Chris Martin: Ancient as Time
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco 901 Minnesota Street, San Francisoc, CAThe installation will feature large soft sculptures, employing boldly expressive lettering with stark, blunt immediacy that challenges the weight of our world with naked solidarity.
Red Boys and Green Girls
Hosfelt Gallery 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CAThese works by Rubin are additionally meditations on the practice of painting, demonstrating how a few, sure brushstrokes can be used to suggest light falling on form, defining a mental state or conjuring a mood.
Stephanie Robison, Close Contact
marrow gallery 548 Irving St, San Francisco, CAThe materials allow a certain freedom, creating work that is intentional and purposeful in its happenstance.
Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures
Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CAThe series features images that reference photography itself, investigating the physicality of the medium and its limited ability to preserve what is fleeting.
Virtual Artist Talk with Lava Thomas – Mills College Art Museum
Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CADrawing from her family’s Southern roots, current and historical socio-political events, intersectional feminism and African American protest and devotional traditions, Thomas’ practice centers ideas that amplify visibility, healing, and empowerment in the face of erasure, trauma, and oppression.