WHAT'S ON VIEW:

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) -

Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection is on view through April 20. Bringing together more than seventy artworks by women artists from the Shah Garg Collection, Making Their Mark illuminates transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among pathbreaking artists from the postwar era to the present.

Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga opens January 18 with an Artist's Talk on opening day. For her first solo exhibition in the Bay Area, Aguiñiga presents a series of rust prints depicting a thirty-foot ladder made using an actual object that she found near the US–Mexico border.

MATRIX 286 / Amol K Patil: A Forest of Remembrance opens January 18 with an Artist's Talk. Amol K Patil's work excavates the lived experiences of Mumbai's working class. This newly commissioned body of work reconfigures the architecture of the Mumbai's chawls into a space of collective memory and dynamic protest.

Creative Growth Art Center  -

CREATIVE GROWTH'S 50th ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY SHOW

Final Day for a key cultural event! Join us for the final day of Creative Growth’s  50th Annual Holiday Show. Shop unique art, ceramics, woodwork, accessories, and more!

Johansson Projects -

Johansson Projects presents A Tangled Coexistence, an exhibition by the Northern California-based painter and draftswoman Nicole Irene Anderson. A Tangled Coexistence is Anderson's first solo show with the gallery and invokes the tradition of landscape painting to explore questions of land, home, and the psychological impact of expansion in California.

Anderson’s tautly constructed drawings and paintings of atomized, flattened landscapes and desolate suburban streets are exquisite scenarios of unease. Deploying her accomplished formal language — exacting, deliberate, dry — Anderson composes essential works charged with feeling and moral complexity. Working from equal parts memory, observation, and invention, Anderson lays siege to our nerves with plausible realities haunted by anxiety and loneliness yet shimmering with the phenomenological glint-glare of light.

A native Californian, Anderson draws from the greed and violence of western expansion, the cool appraisal of our stewardship of land, our elaborate rationalizations and dependence for everything on somebody else, and her empathy for what land both offers and requires of us. Her scope for action is nourished by delicately nuanced drawing and the painter’s belief in the power of form. Weaving in and out of diverse perspectives like strategic lane changes, Anderson’s works explore the intersection of the specific and the abstract. Her itinerary lands the viewer in the immersive space of the world’s core, where the horizon is lost or abandoned, where the body stops, and reverie begins. Devoid of human presence, Anderson’s thinly brushed works implicate the spaces and elements beyond the limits of the scene itself, leaving you alone to speculate on transformation and presence, and to let memory speak.

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) -

OMCA has two special exhibitions on view.

Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples features intergenerational, feminist, queer, and Xicanx-Indigenous artworks offering ancestral forms of liberation, healing, and being.

Born of the Bear Dance: Dugan Aguilar’s Photographs of Native California highlights the diverse voices of California’s Indigenous peoples as they shape the present and future through the lens of celebrated Native photographer Dugan Aguilar.

pt. 2 Gallery -

A solo exhibition by Viola Frey.

A solo presentation of Alicia McCarthy works will be on view.

A solo presentation of Liz Hernández works will be on view as well.

The Saturday morning of East Bay Day.

Start with open studios from 9-12 in the morning. Open Studios feature Kelly Ording Muzae Sesay Shannon Rogers Wardell McNeal Zachary Hart.

Coffee pop-up.