art

Art listings are compiled by Sarah Han. Because of space limitations, new art shows are listed the week they open (thereafter, shows are listed on a rotating basis), and we cannot list café exhibits. For information on how to submit listings to this section, see 8 Days a Week. Reviews are by Lindsey Westbrook.

museums
California Palace of the Legion of Honor Lincoln Park (near 34th Ave and Clement); 863-3330. Tues-Sun, 9:30am-5pm. $8, $6 seniors, $5 for 12-17, free for 10 and under (free Tues). "Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland." Works by the master. Through May 18.

Cartoon Art Museum 655 Mission; CAR-TOON. Tues-Sun, 11am-5pm. $6, $4 students and seniors, $2 for ages 6 to 12, free five and under. "Hate Mail: Comic Strip Controversies," works by top cartoonists of the past 30 years, including Scott Adams, Berkeley Breathed, Frank Cho, Aaron McGruder, and Wiley Miller. Through June 8. "Keeping the Faith: The Life and Art of Morrie Turner." panel cartoons and comic strips by Morrie Turner. Through July 27.

Chinese Historical Society of America and Chinese American National Museum 965 Clay; 391-1188. Tues-Fri, 11am-4pm. $3, $2 seniors, $1 for 6-17, free for 5 and under. "Cultural Fragments." An interactive installation by Amy Lam. Through Aug 31.

Exploratorium 3601 Lyon; 563-7337. Tues-Sun, 10am-5pm. $10, $7.50 students and seniors, $6 youths, free for 3 and under. "The Spirit of Exploration: Roald Amundsen's Polar Expeditions." More than 90 black-and-white photographs. Through July 6. "Seeing." Installations on the concept of vision and sight. Through Sept 1.

Mexican Museum Fort Mason Center, Bldg D, Marina at Laguna; 441-0404. Wed-Fri, 11am-5pm, free. "Objects of Devotion, Colonial, and Popular Religious Art in Latin America." Retablos, ex-votos, and religious sculptures. Through May 30. "Midday Sun Exhibition." An exhibit dedicated to the life and work of Mexican photographer Mariana Yampolsky. Through May 30. "Imágenes de un Siglo." Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Through June 15.

Museo Italo Americano Fort Mason Center, Bldg C, Marina at Laguna; 673-2200. Wed-Sun, noon-5pm (first Wed, noon-7pm). $3, $2 students and seniors, free for 11 and under. "Time and Dreams on my Hands." Almost 40 mixed-media paintings by Anna Caser. Through Aug 10. "Chrystalis," sculptural works by Susan Marie Freda. Through Aug 10.

Museum of Craft and Folk Art Fort Mason Center, Bldg A, Marina at Laguna; 775-0991. Sun and Mon, 11am-5pm; Tues-Fri, 11am-6pm; Sat, 10am-6pm. "Valuables: Jewelry in the New Millennium." Work by 13 contemporary jewelers. May 7-Aug 17.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third St; 357-4000. Fri-Tues, 11am-6pm; Thurs, 11am-9pm. $10, $7 seniors, $6 students, free for 12 and under and members (free first Tues; half-price Thurs, 6-9pm). "Andreas Gursky." More than 40 photographs by the artist. Through June 1. "A Passion for Paul Klee: The Djerassi Collection at SFMOMA." A comprehensive display of Klee's works, from high school until his death in 1940. Through June 8. "Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA." More than 80 works acquired by SFMOMA through patron Phyllis Wattis. Through June 24. "2002 SECA Art Award: John Bankston, Andrea Higgins, Chris Johanson, Will Rogan." Works by the recipients of the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art awards. Through July 27. "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50." Silver and platinum prints by Irving Penn. Through July 27.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum 401 Van Ness, fourth fl; 255-4800. Tues and Thurs-Sat, 11am-5pm; Wed, 11am-7pm. Free. "Kronos@30: Thirty Years of Kronos Quartet." An exhibition dedicated to the musical legacy of the Kronos Quartet. Through June 21.

Seymour Pioneers Museum 300 Fourth St; 957-1849. Wed-Fri, 10am-4pm (also first and third Sat, 10am-4pm). $3, $1 seniors and students. "California: This Golden Land of Promise," almost 40 paintings from the 1860s to 1920s, including works by William Coulter, Edwin Deakin, Percy Gray, and Charles Rollo Peters. Through May 23.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission; 978-ARTS. Tues-Sun, 11am-6pm (first Thurs, 11am-8pm). $6, $3 seniors, students, and youths, free for members (free first Tues). "Time after Time: Asia and Our Moment." Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and video from Asia. Through July 13.

Bay Area

Museum of Children's Art 538 Ninth St, Oakl; (510) 465-8700. Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm; Sun, noon-5pm. Free. "Children of War/Dijeca I Rat." Works by artists from the former Yugoslavia. Through Mon/12.

Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak, Oakl; (510) 238-2200. Wed-Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, noon-5pm (first Fri, 10am-9pm). $6, $4 seniors and students. "The Art of Seeing: Nature Revealed Through Illustration." More than 60 works celebrating plant and animal life. Through June 15. "Quizzical Eye: The Personal Photography of Rondal Partridge." Photographs, photo cubes, collages, and mixed-media works by Partridge. Through June 22. "Iconic to Ironic: Fashioning California Identity." More than 100 articles of clothing and accessories. Through Sept 21.

UC Berkeley Art Museum 2626 Bancroft Way, Berk; (510) 642-0808. Wed-Sun, 11am-7pm. $8, $5 seniors and youths, $4 members and UC Berkeley students and faculty (free Thurs). "The Black Panthers 1968: Photographs by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones." Vintage photographs by Barush and Jones documenting the early days of the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area. Through June 29. "Matrix 203: Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Memorial Project, Vietnam." Three films by the artist. Through June 29. "Aftermath." A new installation by Fred Wilson. Through July 20. "Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective." More than 20 works spanning 30 years of the artist's career. Through July 20. "MATRIX: For Your Pleasure." Works by Cai Guo-Qiang, Chiho Aoshima, and Angela Bulloch. Through Aug 3.

galleries
Opening

Braunstein/Quay 430 Clementina; 278-9850. Tues-Sat, 11am-5:30pm. "Monachromatic," work by Tom Bolles; "Notions of Landscape," work by Alberta Mayo. Through Sat/10. "Toying with Human Nature," mixed-media work by Beverly Rayner (reception May 17, 3:30-5:30pm). May 13-June 7.

Jack Adams Hall SFSU, Chavez Student Center, 19th Ave and Holloway; 338-2229. Tues, 4-9pm; Wed, 9am-9pm; Thurs, 9am-2pm. "Juicy: Design with a Twist," more than 150 works by College of Creative Arts advanced design and industry students (reception May 14, 6-9pm). May 13-16.

National Product 1845 Market; 255-1920. Wed-Sat, 11am-7pm; Sun, noon-5pm. "Hakari Bakari," new paintings by Kaori Kasai (reception Fri/9, 8-10pm). May 7-June 6.

Punch Gallery 155 10th St; 522-5555. Mon-Fri, noon-5pm; and by appt. "Collab," works created through artist collaboration; featured artists include Kamau Amu Patton and Githinji Mbire, Kelly Turnstal and Maya Hayuk, Christopher Ruess and Ezra Li Eifmont, Damon Soule and Romanowski, and Mars and Misk (reception Thurs/8, 8pm-midnight). May 8-31.

SF Camerawork 1246 Folsom; 863-1001. Tues-Sat, noon-5pm. "Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process," work by Jean-Phillipe Baert, Marco Breuer, Kate Farrall, Binh Danh, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, and others (reception Tues/13, 5-8pm). May 13-June 14.

San Francisco City Hall 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl; 252-2568. Mon-Fri, 8am-8pm; Sat-Sun, noon-4pm. "War and Peace: An Afghan Journey," photographs by Pia Torelli; "Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor," 55 images of child labor in the 20th century; "Teen Posters: Safe Jobs for Youth!," winning posters by teens to promote safety in the workplace; "Where We Are Now: Teens in the Workplace," photographs by Rebecca Letz; "Something in Common: Contemporary Chinese Photography," work by members of the Chinese Artist Network (reception Wed/7, 5:30-7:30pm). May 7-July 6.

Studio Scorpio 309 Valencia; 640-8673. "Nudes and Hookers," works through Harry Driggs. Fri/9, 8pm-midnight.

University of San Francisco Student Gallery Golden Gate, between Kitteridge and Roselyn Terraces. Daily, 9am-10pm. "Palettes and Paws" (reception Fri/9, 7-9pm). May 9-14. See 8 Days a Week.

Bay Area

Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery Elihu M. Harris State of California Office Bldg, 1515 Clay, Oakl; (510) 238-6952. Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm. "bigLITTLE," works by more than 100 metalsmiths (reception Thurs/15, 5-8pm). May 12-June 27.

Cricket Engine Gallery 499 Embarcadero, Bldg C, Oakl; (510) 522-0471. Fri-Sun, noon-5pm. "Seven Degrees of Separation," works by seven artists (reception Fri/9, 7-10pm). May 9-18.

John F. Kennedy University Arts and Consciousness Gallery Berkeley Business Center, 2956 San Pablo, Berk; (510) 649-0499. Mon-Fri, 11am-5pm. "Dream Art Exchange," works by 30 Bay Area artists. Through Wed/7. "IIII Seasons," an 18-paneled painting representing the change and constancy of the seasons (reception May 17, 5-8pm). May 12-23.

Magnolia Editions Gallery 2527 Magnolia, Oakl; (510) 834-2527. Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm. "Masquerade/sexdeathrocknroll," images by 12 artists (reception Sat/10, 2-5pm). May 10-19.

Ongoing

Academy of Art College Galleries 688 Sutter; 931-5892. Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm. "Michael Holmes Portfolio," a group show featuring paintings and sculptures. Through Tues/13.

Atrium 600 Townsend; 864-8541. Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. "Nordic 5 Arts," paintings, sculptures, prints, and photography by 11 artists. Through June 6.

Bucheon 540 Hayes; 863-2891. Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm; Sun, noon-5pm. "Even Though," works by Riley McFerrin. Through May 20. See Critic's Choice.

Chinatown Community Arts Program Gallery Holiday Inn, 750 Kearny, third fl; 957-1146. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. "Female As Vessel As Female (Journey of Elevation)," work by six Bay Area artists. Through Fri/9.

Creativity Explored 3245 16th St; 863-2108. Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm; Sat, 11am-6pm. "Japanese Rock 'N' California Roll," works by Creativity Explored artists, artists with disabilities from Japan, and visiting artists Junko Kamata and Kenji Koyasu. Through Sat/10.

Crown Point Press 20 Hawthorne; 974-6273. Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm. New etchings by Sol LeWitt and Richard Tuttle. Through June 28.

Focus Gallery 2423 Polk; 567-9067. Wed and Fri-Sun, noon-6pm; Tues and Thurs, noon-9pm. "Images of Landscape: Real or Imagined," a juried exhibition of works by 21 members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective (reception Thurs/8, 6:30-9pm). Through May 31.

Frey Norris Gallery 456 Geary; 346-7812. Tues-Sun, 11am-7pm. "Familiar Faces and Falls from Graces," new paintings and works on paper by Kate Eric. Through Tues/13.

Gallery Paule Anglim 14 Geary; 433-2710. Tues-Fri, 10am-5:30pm; Sat, 10am-5pm. New works by David Hannah; new works by Thomas Plagemann. Through Sat/10.

George Krevsky Gallery 77 Geary; 397-9748. Tues-Sat, 11am-5:30pm. New paintings by Maury Lapp. Through May 31.

Hespe 1764 Union; 776-5918. Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm; Sun, noon-5pm. "Hespe Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibit," work by nine artists. Through Sun/11.

Intersection for the Arts 446 Valencia; 626-2787. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm. "The World Is Beginning to Tremble: Ché = R + Evolution. Ché is remembered today for only a fraction of what he actually accomplished as a doctor, journalist, photographer, educator, and of course, revolutionary. His image has suffered the same fate, reduced over the last few decades to a mere handful of pop-iconic pictures that belie very little of his real-life complexity. Rectifying some of this historical oversimplification was what Claudia Bernardi and 12 of her former California College of Arts and Crafts students had in mind when they began planning this installation. Bernardi et al focus on his accomplishments, in particular his literacy campaigns. Red-bound books are everywhere on every wall: metal plated, wax encrusted, tied up, stripped, stacked, and punctured. Rather than showing the familiar image of Ché dead on a canvas stretcher, they re-create the moment of his martyrdom with a book that's been shot up as Ché's body was. The show is an unapologetic celebration of Ché's idealism and self-sacrifice. Through May 24. (Westbrook)

John Pence Gallery 750 Post; 441-1138. Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm; Sat, 10am-5pm. Recent landscape paintings by John P. Osborne. Through May 31.

The Lab 2948 16th St; 864-8855. Wed-Sat, 1-6pm; and by appt. "Forbidden Photographs," photographs by Charles Gatewood (reception Fri/9, 5-9pm). Through May 21.

Lexington Club 3464 19th St; 863-2052. Daily, 3pm-2am. "Expected to Stimulate," works by Katie Bush. Through June 16.

Linc Real Art 1632C Market; 503-1981. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. "House Salad: Optimism Between the Cracks." Road signs are designed to have one singular, unambiguous meaning, with text and image perfectly unified in a crystal-clear message. Shot full of holes and ripped from their native environment, however, they become Charles Linder's found-object artworks. What the bullet holes signify is hard to say – maybe the evacuation of simplicity and the introduction of some darker, more complicated and disruptive element. They definitely have to do with redneckism, but given the current state of affairs, it's also possible to read into Linder's signs a more general commentary on violence and its intrusion into a world that is no longer so simple. Also participating in the show are Gail Tarantino and L.G. Williams. Tarantino paints text on canvases and pages of braille. Her musings are alternately enigmatic and profound, funny and sad. Williams presents his brand-new "Duct and Covered" series, which features a group of everyday objects encased in duct tape. Through Sun/11. (Westbrook)

Logan Galleries California College of Arts and Crafts, 1111 Eighth St; 551-9210. Wed, Thurs, Sat, 11am-6pm; Tues, Fri, 11am-8pm. "Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition." The Capp Street Project was the first internationally recognized program to focus solely on installation art. The California College of Arts and Crafts' Wattis Institute took over the project in 1998 and is celebrating CPS's 20th anniversary with a special four-part exhibition featuring Roni Horn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Mike Kelley, and Mike Nelson. Nelson's Pumpkin Palace is a former Green Tortoise Adventure Travel bus that the artist totally gutted and reconstructed into a claustrophobic, mazelike residence. Climb aboard and you're suddenly in a windowless anxiety dream that spits you back out with sensory overload and oxygen starvation. Kelley presents Light (Time)-Space Modulator, a room-sized, motorized contraption with an entire spiral staircase extricated from his Los Angeles home. A cleverly crafted slide show creates a kind of time-bridge between Kelley's current remodeling job and the house as it looked when the previous owners lived there, casting the artist as a kind of Shining-esque Jack Nicholson character (but without the murder part) and asking probing questions about spaces and their histories, and how a residence can retain bits of its past lives and even exert influence on its current occupant. Through Sat/10. (Westbrook)

Lola Gallery 2517 Mission; 401-6800. Tues-Sat, 2-8pm; and by appt. "Hibernia of the New Millennium," Irish art, design, and installation. Through Thurs/8.

Luna Sea Women's Gallery 2940 16th St; 863-2388. Call for hours. "Dangerous Curves," erotic photography by Gloria Polo. Through Sat/10.

Manolo Garcia Gallery 136 Fillmore; 863-6380. Call for hours. "Louis Vuitton," an installation by Libby Black. Through June 15.

Momentum Gallery 701 Oak; 626-7201. Wed, 5-9pm; Sat-Sun, noon-5pm. "Holding Ground under Water," color photographs of China's Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. Through Sun/11.

111 Minna Gallery 111 Minna; 974-1719. Tues-Fri, noon-5pm; Sat-Mon, by appt. "Re-Start," works by 15 local artists working with new tools and media. Through May 31.

Paxton Gate 824 Valencia; 824-1872. Mon-Thurs, noon-7pm; Fri, noon-8pm; Sat, 11am-8pm; Sun, 11am-7pm. Works by Doris Mitsch. Through June 2.

Robert Koch 49 Geary; 421-0122. Tues-Sat, 10:30am-5:30pm. "Magic of the Rail," work by René Groebli. Through June 28.

San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society Fort Mason Center, Bldg C, Room 165; 441-0640. Wed-Sun, noon-5pm. "Embracing the Spirit," photographs by Nancy Franco Blum (reception Wed/7, 5:30-7:30pm). Through June 29.

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 401 Van Ness; 554-6080. Wed-Sat, 11am-5:30pm; Tues, by appt. "Exhibition Game," works by Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Jona Frank, Tim Kelley, Paul Mullins, and Lee Walton. Through Sat/10.

Shooting Gallery 839 Larkin; 931-8035. Call for hours. "Beauty Commerce Adaptation," recent works by Yuri Psinakis and Christopher Jernberg (reception Thurs/8, 7-11pm). Through June 7.

SomArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan; 552-2131. Tues-Sat, noon-4pm. "War and Silence," a Kearny Street Workshop exhibition by Asian Pacific American artists. Through May 28. "Making Their Mark: Concepts, Visions and Narratives by Asian American Women Artists," works by more than 30 artists and writers. Through May 28.

Space 743 743 Harrison; 777-9080. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm; and by appt. "Unlikely Saints," new work by Gregg Cassin. Through Sat/10.

Tercera Gallery 550 Sutter; 773-0303. Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm; Sun, noon-5pm. "Balancing Act," recent contemporary paintings by David Faulk. Through May 31.

Walter and McBean Galleries San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut; 749-4563. Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm. Works by Alison Knowles and Micahel Lazarus. Through Sat/10.

Bay Area

Mama Buzz Café 2318 Telegraph, Oakl; (510) 465-4073. "Prismania," works by Stephen Funk. Through May 31.

NIAD Art Center 551 23rd St, Richmond; (510) 620-0290. Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm. "Food Fight," ceramics, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and poetry by National Institute of Art Disabilities studio artists. Through Fri/9.

Sway Gallery 2569 Telegraph, Berk; (510) 486-9940. Daily, 11am-7pm. A group exhibition featuring painting and photography. Through Sun/11.

Third Street Grind Gallery 464 Third St, Oakl; (510) 832-5282. Mon-Fri, 6:30am-2:30pm. "Surface Age," collage by Sadie Jernigan (reception Thurs/15, 6-8pm). Through May 29.