Erik Parra's In the Same River Twice, runs October 15 to November 19, 2016 at State (1295 Alabama St. San Francisco). There will be a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, October 15.

In The Same River Twice, a two part, site and media-specific installation is made up of studio created pieces in conjunction with and in contrast to alterations in the space. The aim of the work is to mix personal and historical narratives with an eye to viewing current social problems through the lens of history. The exhibit includes installation, drawings and painting.

Art Museum of the Americas of The Organization of American States (201 18th St, NW, Washington, DC) presents Art After Dark 7: Caribbean In Motion from 7 to 11 p.m., September 1, 2016.

The latest edition of the "after hours" event takes place in the French gardesn of the OAS. This event features large scale video art created by video artists from the Caribbean. Electro-op band, Incredible Change and Luis Gray Percussion World will perform, DJ Shea Van Horn will also be on hand. Performanace artist, Carolina Mayorga, will present her piece La Vie en Rose-2. More performers will also be on hand.

Cost: 
General $45
VIP $90 (includes private bar and area, a one-year AMA membership, and express check-in)

Raffle tickets: $5 
Prizes include roundtrip airfare for 2 from Dulles to Panama City, sponsored by Copa Airlines.

Aron Packer Projects at Mars Gallery (1139 W. Fulton Market, Chicago) presents POP UP!, a group show. There will be an artist reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, September 8, 2016 and a closing reception during Artfair from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, September 25. The exhibit runs September 8 to 25.

Featured artists include Krista Hoefle (quilts and prints), Nancy Mladenoff (flashe on paper), Lorraine Peltz (photographs and paintings) and Jennifer Yorke (collage on paper).

ART 3 Gallery (109 Ingraham St., Bushwick, Brooklyn) presents Juliette Dumas' No Safe Harbor from September 7 to October 2, 2016. There will be a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, September 15. This is the French artist's first exhibition in New York City.

Dumas' work focuses on humanity's strained relationship with nature. This installation will feature installations using rock, water and plastic, a series of silver gelatin pieces, large white canvases and a wood sculpture.
 

t.w. five's Across From Us runs August 20 to September 30, 2016 at State (1295 Alabama St., San Francisco). There will be an opening reception fro 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, August 20.

t.w.five is Pernilla Anderson and Paula Pereira. The two artists (the former from Sweden and the latter from Brazil) both earned MFAs from San Jose State and have been exhibited around the world. They will also be artists-in-residence
at the De Young, Kimball Education Gallery/Artist Studio beginning September, 2016. Find out more at www.twfive.net.

Southern Guild, of Cape Town, South Africa, is set to be part of the London Design Biennale September 7 to 27, 2016 at Somerset House (Strand,
London). Their participation will be in the form of an installation by designer, artist, philosopher, Porky Hefer (calling him philospopher is my input since his work is much more than what is on the surface).

Hefer contribution here, created by hand at Woodheads leather merchants (also of Cape Town) consists of work depciting five animals: M.Heloise (manta ray), Crocodylus Eugenie (crocodile), Lolita Blackfish (lover whale), Piranha 1: Nerina (piranha) and Panthera leo. The last of these is a Hefer self-portrait.

You can read our interview with Hefer HERE.

The London Design Biennale will feature work from 35 countries and was founded by the people who organize the London Design Festival. It takes place at the same time as that fair. The idea is to bring designers together to debate and discuss design innovation. The theme of the biennale is Utopia by Design.

Southern Guild is a gallery conceived and run by Trevyn and Julian McGowan.

Chicago artist, Mikey Peterson, will be part of the Arts + Literature Laboratory (Madison, WI)'s Off The Wall video art screening series at 9 p.m., Saturday, August 13, 2016. His short film, Slip Away, will be show.

Off The Wall is an outdoor screening series of contemporary video art that presents innovative moving image works from artists all over the world. Find out more at artlitlab.org.

Pérez Art Museum Miami presents Sarah Oppenheimer's S-281913 September 30, 2016 to April 30, 2017. This new work by the artist is a bridge between art, architecture and engineering. The artist changes space both mixing up and making clear the structures we inhabit. She raises questions and offers a new philosophy with regard to buildings.

Housed on the museum's second floor, S-281913 is made up of two architectural “switches.” These are rotating glass elements that alternate between being reflective and transparent (depending on the light or where you are standing).
These switches work independently and together relaying different lines of sight. Your orientation will fluctuate as the switches move. Something that seemed far away will suddenly be close (and visa versa).

Oppenheimer, from Austin but now living in NYC, holds an MFA from Yale. She has had solo exhibitions at numerous institutions around the world and, in addition to this work at the Pérez, is set have major solo exhibits at Wexner
Center for the Arts (2017) and Mass MoCA (2019).

Aqua Art Miami and the Association of Women Art Dealers (AWAD) collaborating during Miami Art Week 2016. AWAD, a London-based non-profit trade network, with a mission to make business between women art dealers easier. The collaboration within Aqua focuses on highlighting women gallerists during the fair and special projects from women curators.

There will also be a couple of special events:

"Unconscious gender bias and the art world: What's the reality for women art dealers, and what role do they have to play?", a morning panel discussion takes place 10 to 11 a.m., Friday, December 2. The panel will be moderated by Susan Mumford, founder and CEO of AWAD.

from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, December 2, Aqua Art Miami will host AWAD's private annual gathering "Networking Cocktails on the Beach."

Aqua Art Miami is always one of the more interesting--and fun--smaller fairs during the week.

Rory Scott's "Impermanence" opens 6 to 10 p.m.Friday, August 12 at Nych Gallery (643 18th, Chicago). The exhibit opens on the same day as Bridgeport's gallery walk.
These pieces are a small part of a much larger project, six years in the making. They are photographs based on 60 short animated films. The pieces (and presumably
the films) focus on the relationship between man and technology.