by Hannah Shafer
staff writer/copy editor/web design

Thanksgiving weekend is upon us. While consuming mass quantities of turkey and festive television programming, be thankful for this: you reside in a hub of media, of technology and, most importantly, of art. San Francisco, where the weather is mild and the streets are lined with galleries.

thru Nov 26
Francesca Sundsten: Life on Earth with Modifications
Davis, Osborn, Pederson & Rauch: Persona
Olga Dollar Gallery
210 Post Street
415.398.2297

thru Nov 27
Between Colors/Polychrome Paintings: Wellmann & Crosby
Patricia Sweetow Gallery
49 Geary Street
415.788.5126

thru Nov 27
20Twenty: 20th Anniversary Exhibition--Arbus, Brancusi, Duchamp, Man Ray, Modotti, Warhol, etc
Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street
415.981.2661 or e-mail at fraenkel@sirius.com

thru Nov 27
Robert Arneson: Double Portraits
Brian Gross Fine Art
49 Geary Street
415.788.1050

thru Nov 27
Robert Schwartz: Recent Works in Oil and Gouache
Hackett-Freedman Gallery
250 Sutter, 4th floor
415.362.7152

thru Nov 28
Louis St Louis: New Work
Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts
161 Natoma Street
415.512.0335 or e-mail at art@jwfinearts.com

thru Nov 30
Steven Montgomery: Recent Sculpture
Dorothy Weiss Gallery
256 Sutter Street
415.397.3611 or e-mail at dorthweiss@aol.com

Nov 30 - Dec 30
When Divas Confess: Photos, and booksigning by Marcia Lieberman
Patricia Sweetow Gallery
49 Geary Street
415.788.5126

thru Dec 4
David Bates; Joseph Goldyne; Cartlin Mitchell-Dayton
John Berggruen Gallery
228 Grant Avenue
415.781.4629

thru Dec 4
David Ruddell: New Work
Braunstein/Quay Gallery
430 Clementina Street
415.278.9850 or e-mail at bqg@sirium.com

thru Dec 4
Kathryn Jacobi: Still Lifes & Landscapes
Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery
660 Mission Street
415.512.1113

thru Dec 8
Bill Zima
Hespe Gallery
1764 Union Street
415.776.5918 or e-mail at hesgall@earthlink.net

thru Dec 10
American Still Life
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
464 Sutter Street
415.677.0770

thru Dec 11
Joe Draegert: New Work
Erickson & Elins Gallery
345 Sutter Street
415.981.1080

thru Dec 11
Group Exhibition: By-the-Sea--Avery, Calef, Dubovsky, Ferlinghetti, Phillips, Wheeler, Winslade
George Krevsky Gallery
77 Geary Street
415.397.9748 or e-mail at gkg20thc@aol.com

thru Dec 22
Drawings: The Essential Art--Drawings by 30 Invited Artists
John Pence Gallery
750 Post Street
415.441.1138 or e-mail at penceart@sirius.com

thru Dec 22
Ron Nagle; Paul Henry Ramirez
Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street
415.982.3292 or bransten@hooked.net

thru Dec 23
Naomie Kremer: New Paintings
Modernism
685 Market Street
415.541.0461