Transient Spaces
Friday through May 3. Free. Painter Joanna Swan slows the pace of online life and re-imagines social networking profile pictures and Google street views in a series of acrylic and oil works on view in the first Friday Oakland Art Murmur. [Brown Couch Café, 340 14th St., Oakland, (510) 452-1664, www.artslant.org]

Think Things Through
May 5. Free. David Middlebrook presents a solo exhibition of large-scale bronze and stone sculptures in an effort to convey the extraordinary. Opening reception is Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. [McLoughlin Gallery, 49 Geary St., Suite 200, S.F., (415) 986-4799, www.mgart.com]