In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge...

...the Port of Oakland and Oakland International Airport (OAK) present Spanning the Bay, a juried exhibition of artwork exploring trade and tourism in the Bay Area.

Three artworks by Lance Rivers were selected for this timely group exhibiiton featuring over twenty artists. The show also features work by: Kanna Aoki, Suzy Barnard, Joseph Blum, Nicholas Bohac, Andreina Davila, Susan Friedman, Emanuela Harris-Sinta, Allyson Hollingsworth, Hughen/Starkweather, Henrik Kam, Mike Kimball, Sheila Newbery, Camilla Newhagen, Eben Ostby, Brenda Quan, Lena V. Reynoso, Robin Rome, Gail Tarantino, Peter Tonningsen and Lisa Levine (Artist Team), Stephen C. Wagner, and John Wehrle.

Organized by the Oakland Museum of California, with jurors from the Richmond Art Center, the Bedford Gallery, and the Berkeley Art Center.

NOTE: Lance Rivers' Golden Gate Bridge Landscape image pictured above is available in Creativity Explored's Golden Gate Bridge note card set, available for sale in our online store or in our Gallery.

May 18 - June 23, 2012

Venue
Luggage Store Gallery

Location
San Francisco, CA

The Luggage Store Gallery presents Streetopia, a large-scale group exhibition taking place in venues throughout downtown San Francisco. Curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich, Streetopia brings neighborhood residents together with at least 132 artists, performers, writers, filmmakers, activists, thinkers, and public policy makers in venues in the heart of
the city, to address the show’s themes of Utopian aspiration for the city.

CE studio artists Anthony Gomez, Michael Bernard Loggins, Yukari Sukara, Sara O'Sullivan, Marilyn Wong, and Richard Wright were among the artists included in Live Open Letter Office (LoLo), part of Streetopia, which showcased small artworks and stories created by artists working in community-based art studios around the country, and the world.

ArtPadSF is a provocative 21st century boutique art fair that focuses on emerging and contemporary art from the Bay Area and beyond.

Creativity Explored participates in ArtPadSF at the Phoenix Hotel, showing specially selected works by: Daniel Green, Andrew Li, Michael Bernard Loggins, John Patrick McKenzie, James Miles, Evelyn Reyes, and more.

Plus, original video work by Thanh My Diep, Yah Kakabutra, Yukari Sakura, and Makeya Kaiser as well as a book signing appearence by Michael Bernard Loggins, author of "Imaginationally" and the new paperback edition of "Fears of Your Life."

For more ArtPadSF information, click here.

The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries presents FAX.

FAX is an evolving exhibition from the Independent Curators International that began in New York in 2009 and has been traveling ever since.

The SFAC Galleries invited 22 Bay Area artists to reconceive the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Each participating artist transmitted their fax-based work to the gallery via a working fax line. The results are displayed alongside works by artists, graphic designers, architects and other cultural producers from around the globe.
Curated by João Ribas

Local Artists: Kathy Aoki, Brandon Brown, John Casey, Julie Chang, Adriane Colburn, Binh Danh, Kota Ezawa, Pablo Guardiola, Taraneh Hemami, Dana Hemenway, Tony Labat, John Patrick McKenzie, Geri Montano, Kelly Ording, Joshua Singer, Casey Jex Smith, Sarah Smith, Someguy, Taravat Talepasand, Charlene Tan, Josephine Taylor, Jenifer Wofford.

Guest programmers: Anne Colvin, Colter Jacobsen, Kevin Killian and Adrienne Skye Roberts will each curate special public event at the Main Gallery during the course of the exhibition.

Opening reception:
Friday, May 4, 6pm - 8pm

SF Arts Commission Main Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister)
San Francisco, CA 94102

Main Gallery Hours:
Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

May 2 - June 12, 2012

Venue
Creativity Explored

Location
San Francisco, CA

A group exhibition of transportation-themed works powered by imagination.

The Golden Gate Bridge is admired by Creativity Explored artists just as much, if not more, than everyone else. In celebration of the 75^th Anniversary of the city's magnificent landmark, more than 20 artists have made work around the theme of transportation for our latest exhibition, Are We There Yet?

This show will get you moving by boat, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, foot, truck, car, roller-skate and even by imaginary vehicle — wait until you see these hybrids! Walter Kresnik will rev you up with his colorful drawing of a Viper GTS, a G4 Thunderbird Classic and a 65 "Bunneville"; Gordon Chin’s abstract vehicles labeled “Gas Gaszzler” and “Jolopy” will make you laugh; and Sara O’Sullivan will make you wish you rode one of her mini cardboard bicycles. Stop on by — using whichever mode of transport you prefer — and take a ride on the wild side of art. Curated by Larry Morace.