October 7- November 6, 2022
Opening: Friday, October 7, 5–8pm
With Beyond Trend 2022 Digital Fashion Showcase screening, Creative Growth Magazine: Issue 5 artist signing, DJ Disco Da Evil + DJ Lonely Girl, drinks, and photo booth.
Creative Growth Gallery
355 24th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
Open to the public, Saturdays 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM PST.
Available Monday through Friday by appointment by emailing: gallery@creativegrowth.org
The Beyond Trend 2022 exhibition celebrates this year’s 10th anniversary Beyond Trend extravaganza and film premiere. The exhibition welcomes viewers to the Creative Growth gallery once again, after over two years, for an in-depth look at the extraordinary wearable art crafted by over 50 Creative Growth artists. Curated by Beyond Trend Coordinators and Creative Growth textile instructors Meadow Presley and Amy Keefer, the show includes a selection of the artists’ looks featured in the Beyond Trend 2022 Digital Fashion Showcase and in BEYOND i wanna go, a documentary created by Cheryl Dunn commemorating the history of Beyond Trend.
This exhibition highlights the range of textile processes at work in our Oakland studio. Visionary artwork produced with fabric painting, hand embroidery, weaving, wrapping and crochet are all on display. While many Creative Growth artists translate their personal aesthetic into art that is made to be worn, the exhibit also features sculptural and two dimensional pieces from artists using fashion or textile themes.
The exceptional pieces included in this exhibit range from Monica Valentine’s fringed SAORI loom weavings and intricately beaded sequin sculptures to Lulu Sotelo’s playful, handmade El Chavo del Ocho dolls and Aurie Ramirez’s hardcore metal fashion Kiss and Elvira inspired wooden cutouts. Ying Ge Zhou’s colossal paper shopping bag collage made from her COVID-19 art supply delivery bags and adorned with imaginative couture portraits is installed next to the intricately wrapped abstract textile sculptures of Tony Pedemonte. The hand stitched quilts include Zina Hall’s detailed embroidered portraits of R&B artists Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, Susan Janow’s brightly colored geometric grids with flowers, and Jorge Gomez's collage quilt comprised of repurposed woven fragments made by artists at home and in the Creative Growth studio as they developed their weaving practices. Dinah Shapiro’s crocheted “ponchelots” and space themed adorned hoop skirts adorn mannequins alongside Stephanie Hill’s brightly colored emoji, op art fashions. Blurring the line between fine art and fashion.
Please join us and experience this survey of over a decade of fashion at Creative Growth, view the stories we tell on our bodies and witness the incredible details of the work up close, rarely visible from the runway.
For questions and inquiries, contact gallery@creativegrowth.org.
