Pamela Jorden, “Rose Lake,” 2025, acrylic and oil on linen. Image courtesy of Romer Young Gallery.
November 6 to December 20 — Pamela Jorden: Holds presented by Romer Young Gallery: Through her active and physical manipulation of materials Jorden creates fluid and organic planes of color. Her work is associated with the Southern California landscape, and its dynamic surfaces are reflected in the manipulation of her linens. Opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 6 from 6-8 p.m. Romer Young Gallery is located at 1240 22nd Street, San Francisco.
Top left: Libby Black, “A Better Person,” 2025, paper, acrylic, paint, pencil, and glue. Top right: Libby Black, “Oniyuri (Tiger Lily),” 2025, watercolor on paper. Bottom left: Libby Black, “Butterfly 1,” 2025, watercolor on paper. Bottom right: Libby Black, “Getting the Crabs out of the Bucket,” 2025, paper, acrylic paint, and glue. Images courtesy of Anthony Meier Fine Arts.
November 7 to December 19 — Libby Black: Tracing Time presented by Anthony Meier Fine Arts: Working across drawing, painting, and sculpture to develop a tactile language that interacts with the material, political, and emotional realms of the everyday, Black transforms familiar objects into portals. She evokes both aspiration and the imprints of personal experience. These pieces hold a delicate record of emotions and time which is felt but never captured. Opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 6, from 5-7 p.m. Anthony Meier is located at 21 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley.
Ron Nagle “Orange Tracy” 1986. Image courtesy East Bay Yesterday.
Saturday, November 8 from 2-3:30 p.m. — East Bay Art Yesterday: 100 Years of Bay Area Photography & Ceramics presented by Mills College Art Museum: MCAM presents a discussion reflecting on the history of photography and ceramics hosted by Liam O’Donoghue. MCAM Director Stephanie Hanor, Erik Scollon, Associate Professor and Head of Ceramics at California College of the Arts, and Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will discuss Bay Area artist’s role in transforming photography and ceramics into fine art forms. The discussion will take place in Danforth Lecture Hall at 5000 McArthur Blvd, Oakland.
Muzae Sesay “Search” 2025, Oil and oil pastel on canvas. Image courtesy of Pt.2 Gallery.
November 8 to December 20 — Muzae Sesay: Domestic Demo presented by Pt.2 Gallery: Exploring our collective relationship to space, memory, and community, this five part exhibition features new works on canvas in mixed media. Sesay uses skewed perspectives and flat planes of color to compose interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and structures, inviting the viewer to reflect on their understanding of space. Opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 8 at 6 p.m., located at Pt.2 Gallery, 1523b Webster Street, Oakland.
Shinpei Kusanagi “Mistrust” 2025, acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of Altman Siegel Gallery.
Ongoing to November 22 — Shinpei Kusanagi: It is not far to the sea presented by Altman Siegel: For their final exhibition, Altman Siegel presents a large body of new paintings from Kusanagi. These paintings are a reflection on the journey of life and death, age, time, and the mundane experience of all the small moments in between. Altman Siegel is located at 1150 25th Street, San Francisco.
Image from the opening reception of “Love Letters to Aliens”. Image courtesy of Southern Exposure.
Ongoing to February 7 — Love Letters to Aliens presented by Southern Exposure: Featuring the works from Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, with performances by Roco Córdova, these artists consider the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense. These works reframe and examine seduction, repulsion, and obfuscation, from the extraterrestrial to the intimate. Southern Exposure is located at 3030 20th Street, San Francisco.
Rupy C. Tut, “Meet Me in the Mirror,” 2025, handmade pigments on linen. Image courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery.
Ongoing to December 20 — Rupy C. Tut: The Eighth Color presented by Jessica Silverman Gallery: In her solo exhibition Rupy C. Tut presents paintings on handmade and linen paper. Topics of her exploration include cultural history, feminine agency, and ecological dreamlands. Tut reflects on how these themes are felt in the psychology of diaspora. Jessica Silverman Gallery is located at 621 Grant Avenue, San Francisco.