Tonight - two shows open (one show leaves) at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (49 Geary Ste. 411): Orly Corgan's The Wonder of You, and Sentences by Nicholas Knight - both artists are from New York.

In her post-modern feminist tapestries, Cogan takes vintage tablecloths and other linens from days gone by and transforms them through embroidery into an erotic fantasyland featuring mostly her. She muses, eats sweets, snorts coke, contemplates kissing frogs and kicks around with various naked friends and relations. Knight's work are visual representations of diagrammed sentences (we remember learning to do this in grade school, along with the "new math," but have totally forgotten how) by famous authors. (5:30 - 7:30pm)

Also tonight: it's First Thursday, check out the rest of 49 Geary, plus a collective gathering of collectives at Yerba Buena.

Friday - Oakland's Rock Paper Scissors Collective (2278 Telegraph Ave at 23rd St) has a show by the Ghost Town Collective called Mixed Visions, featuring installation, linocuts, and media work that grew out of the mentorship of Tony Bergquist by Juan Fuentes of the Mission Cultural Center's Mission Grafica program, while Bergquist was in prison. (6-9pm)

Also tonight, check out the rest of the Oakland galleries participating in the Oakland Art Murmur.

Saturday - opening reception at little tree gallery (3412 22nd St. at Guerrero) for David O. Johnson's show, LOITER. LOITER features neon sculpture and drawing - utilizing neon for social commentary and also as an impractical means for relaxation. (6-9pm)
Later on Saturday: loiter in the 'Loin: receptions at White Walls and Shooting Gallery.