Sept. 5
Visual art
Tetsuya Noda: “Recent Works from the ‘Diary’ Series”
Most of us wish we could “cook” and “season” our personal photographs, not to mention our overall memories. That’s precisely what Tetsuya Noda has been doing for 40 years in his “Diary” series of prints, though that doesn’t mean he’s out to flatter himself. Retouching, embellishing, and erasing aspects of photographs, Noda often discovers the spirit of an image. The first contemporary artist to exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, he’s now the subject of a show at Don Soker Contemporary Art – itself an event. (Johnny Ray Huston)
Through Oct. 14
Don Soker Contemporary Art
49 Geary, SF
Free
(415) 291-0966
www.donsokergallery.com
Event
Defeat Pombo
Help the 11th District get a better US representative by coming to a fundraiser for Democratic Party candidate Jerry McNerney, who will be running against the notoriously antienvironmental, developer-friendly Rep. Richard Pombo. (Deborah Giattina)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Varnish Fine Art
77 Natoma, SF
Donations accepted
www.jerrymcnerney.com