Creative Growth is pleased to announce that Dan Hamilton is included in Architecting California, an exhibition at Tierra del Sol Gallery. Dan Hamilton has practiced at Creative Growth since 1975. With over forty five years of art making, he’s skilled in ceramics, textiles, drawing and painting. The works in this show highlight his color form facades reflecting the California architecture that is known around the world. The beautiful simplicity of Hamilton’s work emerges through defined lines around saturated color fields. These flat, yet dynamic renderings are reminiscent of the work of Burle Marx, another South American artist with a passion for landscape and architecture.
Architecting California
July 10–September 4, 2021
Tierra del Sol Gallery
945 Chung King Road, Los Angeles 90012
From Tierra del Sol:
Tierra Del Sol Gallery presents Architecting California, a unique group exhibition highlighting five artists from five California nonprofit art studio programs; Creative Growth, Creativity Explored, Exceptional Children’s Foundation (ECF), National Institute of Art & Disabilities (NIAD) and Tierra del Sol. The artists and programs included in Architecting California show connectivity through creativity across the state’s expansive and diverse surroundings.
The five artists included in this show; Sylvia Fragoso, Dan Hamilton, Maria Kim, Michael LeVell and Evelyn Reyes, have unique practices, use different materials, work at different studios and live in different cities. All variances meet at the conjuncture of the architectural influences that help define California’s aesthetic and civil landscape.
Art and architecture share an impulse to define space and make meaning. Great architecture can inspire artists to investigate line, form, and dimension in conversation with the built world around them. California offers these visionaries classic architecture, from the Eames, Wright, Schindler and Lautner houses that defined modern living to the conjuncture of the past and future commons explored in the public designs of Julia Morgan, Paul Williams, Frank Gehry and Fong & Chan. The five artists in this show have used their imagination to uniquely investigate and express the idea of architecture in their own ways. Nothing is literal and everything open for interpretation.