Cain Schulte Gallery : Fahamu Pecou - I'm Sittin' By The Front Door; Yvonne Lee Schultz - 2Sweet2Kill.

Comment by AB: Atlanta, Georgia painter Fahamu Pecou opines on the mainstream media, particularly on how they portray black males, by painting himself into mass market magazine covers. Plenty to reflect on here. In the side gallery, Yvonne Lee Schultz provides additional food for thought (literally as well as figuratively) in her series of photographs of small children playing with scale model chocolate guns. Stop by; have a look.

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Clara Street Projects : Site and Situation.

Artists: Osama Dawod, Robyn Engel, Kelly Falzone, Jesse Hensel, Stephanie Inagaki, Dori Latman, Seth Lower, Jody Medich, Colleen Mulvey, Renetta Sitoy, Kristen Van Diggelen, Ryan Verzaal, Jesse Walton.

Comment by AB: Part II of a three-part series of group shows in this temporary exhibition space (a "repurposed" garage on Clara Street) "addresses the idea of art as cognitive remnant." Uh... OK. The art's decent-- SFAI in flavor-- and that includes the lemonade stand. My favorite? A kinetic contraption that endlessly blows a plastic grocery store bag around and around-- just like the ones you see endlessly blowing around the streets of San Francisco (and everywhere else on the planet).

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Climate Theater : Nicole Repack & Shiloh Burton - Pop Yer Cherry in da Gender Galaxy.

Comment by AB: Spray paint stencils meet gender politics, the individual stencils wallpapering the gallery, plus special added attraction-- a video of nude models with images projected onto their bodies. Plus all kinds of kicky peeps runnin' around.

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Adobe Books Backroom Gallery : Rachel Kaye - Under the Affluence. Curated by Devon Bella.

Comment by AB: Rachel Kaye reconfigures magazine photographs of high-profile women and their opulent appurtenances into paintings, accented with a chandelier hanging low from the gallery ceiling to underscore the essence. Note to Adobe dudes-- time to update the website.

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Bell Jar : Kristine Reano - The Flora and Fauna of a Vibrant Cosmos.

Comment by AB: A select selection of gossamer drawings with watercolor, collage, and embellished with occasional weavings by Kristine Reano-- about as delicate is delicate gets. Quite a few pieces are sold, mainly because they're priced real right considering the quality, most low to mid hundreds $$.

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Galeria de la Raza : On the Wall.

Artists: Borish, Cece Carpio, Eric Camins, Mike Coredero, Miguel "Bounce" Perez, Scott La Rockwell, Shaun Turner, Robert "Tres" Trujillo, Erin "Yoshi" Yoshioka, Tanuj Chopra, Tze Chun, Amber Field, Pia Infante, Stephanie Yang.

Comment by AB: Latino and Asian Pacific Islander artists from Trust Your Struggle Collective and Kearny Street Workshop collaborate the gallery into an urban wonderland partitioned into various sectors, each one focusing on a particular issue like the great immigration debate, claiming (or reclaiming) cultural identity, or building community.

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