By John Held, Jr.       Most of the Tenderloin galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, so I chose a Thursday afternoon to take …

  Currently on view at Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek is “Larger than Life,” a group exhibition that explores how contemporary artists have begun to use …

    Currently on view at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA is “Summer Salon”, a group exhibition of masterworks by artists working in …

By John Held, Jr.       I took an afternoon to acquaint myself with the latest happenings in the Tenderloin art scene. It wasn’t …

By John Held, Jr.       When I first arrived in San Francisco in 1995, one of the first calls I made was to …

Two more artists in the show Practice to Pretend play with the ideas of representation and abstraction. The work of both Rebekah Goldstein and Nikki …

  “WORD PERFECT” open tonight August 7th at Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco.  “Word Perfect” is a group exhibition with guest curator, renowned author …

Evan Nesbit & Kate Bonner   All the work in the show Practicing to Pretend, curated by Melissa Dickenson and William Emmert now up at …

  “THE LIVING NEWSPAPER: EXTRA EXTRA”  is a performance series that begin this week August 7th and continue until August 11th.  This project is supported …

    Sarah Cain’s exhibition “Loud Object” at Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco simply and articulately addresses that nagging question that’s plagued the …

  Opening Friday, August 2nd at Johansson Projects is “Members Only”, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Jennie Ottinger.  Jennie Ottinger grew up in …

  Concord that been on a research adventure in a teal school bus traveling across the country and is landing at Real Time & Space …

  On Thursday, August 1st, at the Edicola newsstand is the release party for “ALL AROUND US ALWAYS,” a print publication examining the ways in …

  The artists in Digital Infinity a group show at Jessica Silverman gallery on view thru August 3rd, tackle the difficult idea of presenting virtual …

  Opening tonight, July 26th at Et al. Gallery in Chinatown, San Francisco is a group exhibition titled, “AN EXHIBITION WHICH COMES AND GOES AS …

By John Held, Jr.     It’s really difficult to successfully show printed works as opposed to strictly visual works of art in a gallery …

    Philip Maisel’s assemblage and photography in the Right Window at Artists’ Television Access are comprised of multiple layers of materials and surfaces that …

    Mark Benson’s installation in the Hallway Space at the entrance of Eli Ridgway Gallery is dying. When I arrived less than a week …

  Tomorrow night at The Lab is a group of performance including MSHR, Rubber (() Cement, and Waxy Tomb in conjunction with the exhibition, “Brenna …

  “Schrödinger’s Cats” opens tonight, July 19th at The Popular Workshop in San Francisco.  This group exhibition features new works by Andrew Chapman, Aaron Finnis, …