Curated by Jan Petry, this show focuses on important works from generations past: Martin Ramirez, Henry Darger, August Walla, and Friedrich Schoder-Sonnentstern and more expansively on the new generation of self-taught artists whose work remains authentic and visionary while representative of contemporary times. Featuring work by Creative Growth artists Dan Miller and Dwight Mackintosh. For more information click here
Dwight Mackintosh at Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
Dwight Mackintosh October 23 - November 15, 2015
Creative Growth is proud to announce an upcoming solo exhibition for Dwight Mackintosh at Galerie Miyawaki in Kyoto from October 23 - November 15, 2015. This is the first solo exhibition of Dwight's work in Japan, featuring 30 works from all stages of the artist's career.
Located in Kyoto’s Teramachi-Nijo neighborhood, an area known for its fine art and antiques, Galerie Miyawaki is one of the greatest galleries in the Kansai region specializing in surrealist, art brut, and outsider art. The gallery was originally established in 1958, eventually relocating to its present location in 1973; for forty years it has hosted a succession of unique exhibitions to become Kyoto’s representative dealer in modern art.
Address: Nijo-agaru, Tearamachi-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0915 Japan For more information visit the gallery's site - here
Christine Szeto at the Marin Community Foundation, Novato
FiberSHEDCurated by Patricia Watts
October 7, 2015 - January 15, 2016
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 7th from 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Organized in collaboration with curator Patricia Watts, the Marin Community Foundation hosts FiberSHED, featuring approximately ninety artworks by twenty-four textile and fiber artists, primarily from the Bay Area, also including five artists from Los Angeles, Michigan, and New Hampshire.
The title FiberSHED is a play on the concept of a watershed, an area of land where water flows from the mountaintops, downward to tributary creeks and rivers, and ultimately drains into lakes and oceans. For this exhibition the title conveys the exceptional art that is being made by visual artists in the medium of fiber primarily located in the bioregion or “shed” of the San Francisco Bay Area. These are artists who share a unique relationship with the landscape and who are making cutting-edge artworks rich in craft tradition, while reflecting local sociocultural discourse.
Artists include: Adela Akers, Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope, Anna Von Mertens, Christine Szeto, Diedrick Brackens, Emily Payne, Esther Traugot, George-Ann Bowers, Kate Nartker, Jenne Giles, Lauren Hartman, Lia Cook, Linda Davenport, Liv Aanrud, Liz Robb, Lucy Childs, Luke Haynes, Paul Gillis, Sherri Smith, Stephanie Metz, Tali Weinberg, Topaze Moore, and Victoria May.
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Geometrics
Open Late for Oakland Art Murmur | Friday, October 2 | 6 to 9PMPRESS IMAGES BELOW
Geometrics Guest curated by Jules Maeght September 10 to November 13, 2015
Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland’s celebrated studio and gallery for artists with disabilities has a flourishing, decade-long history of collaborating with the French Art Brut and contemporary art world, and is honored to highlight their upcoming project with San Francisco (via Paris) gallerist and printmaker Jules Maeght and his partner and wife Amélie Maeght. The Maeght family’s nearly century-long legacy of nurturing and promoting artists’ work via the lithographic print takes shape at Oakland’s Creative Growth gallery with the exhibition Geometrics and the launch of three new illuminating limited edition prints. Studio artists Maureen Clay, Carlos Fernandez, and Dan Miller were invited by Maeght to create artwork for this edition, which places its focus on geometric abstraction. The edition of 50 lithographs are printed by master printmakers in the ARTE-Maeght studio in Paris, on the same renowned 1904 press used for historic collaborations with artists such as Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Marc Chagall.
Geometrics, curated by Jules Maeght, includes a selection of work from the Creative Growth printmaking studio alongside the new print editions. Maeght shares, "What struck me was the process of creating through repetition (Dan Miller and Maureen Clay for example have a repetitive process through points, phrases, words or sensations). I was especially drawn to the repetition of symmetrical forms which became the backbone of the exhibition."
Line, shape, color, and form take precedence over figurative representation in pieces like the origami-inspired etchings of Charles Esseltine, the structured, striped “curtains” by Susan Janow, and the hybrid digital/silkscreen illustrations by Carlos Fernandez. Accompanying this printmaking presentation are photographs by French photographer Arnaud Gaertner, whose photos have documented this international collaborative process and the evolution of the lithograph edition in its entirety.
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, September 10, 2015 Press preview: 11:00 AM and by appointment Members opening: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Public opening: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Creative Growth Art Center 355 24th Street, Oakland CA 94612 510-836-2340 x20
- Dan Miller, Untitled, 2015, 19.75x25.75 inches
Jules Maeght looks at works by Dan Miller, Dan Miller paints nearby
Photo: Arnaud Gaertner
Maureen Clay begins work in the studio on her plate prototype
Photo: Arnaud Gaertner
Carlos Fernandez sources imagery for preliminary plate designs
Photo: Arnaud Gaertner
Dan Miller lithographs on the press at ARTE-Maeght studio in Paris
Photo: Arnaud Gaertner
Long Story Short
Long Story Short August 7 – September 5, 2015
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What makes a story persist, not just in length of time or number of pages, but in memory and impact? In the exhibition Long Story Short, the diverse narratives of five Creative Growth artists are woven together to tell a multi-faceted story, one that clearly needs no beginning or end to be considered whole.
With work by Rosena Finister, Zina Hall, Ying Ge Zhou, Alexandria Bell, and D’Lisa Fort, this exhibition explores the distinct voices of five female artists whose content is rooted in storytelling, serial dialogue, imagined mythologies, and autobiographical narrative. Through illustrative drawing, painting, and embroidery, these artists show that art can be just as expository in its aesthetic expression as a written or spoken tale alone.
POINT-OF-VIEW | Laura Jo Pierce: Upstairs in our Viewing Room gallery, Laura Jo Pierce uses the walls as her canvas to create an ongoing sketch of her day-to-day thoughts that will grow each week. Part poem, part painting, this evolving artwork will become a visual log of Laura Jo’s stream of consciousness. PLUS COME AND INTERACT WITH TOGETHER WEAVING!
Together Weaving is a collaboration between Fort Makers' Naomi Clark and Nana Spears, and Creative Growth. Together the artists made three, large-scale weavings using strips of repurposed fabric and orange construction fencing. Guests are invited to interact with these large scale weavings, put them on and take pictures of spontaneous actions that are activated by the weavings.
Exhibition Opening & Party FIRST FRIDAY, August 7 Members’ Preview: 11AM – 2PM MAIN EVENT: 5PM – 9PM LIVE MUSIC By Sandra Poindexter, Kenny Hawkins, & Mark Heshima Williams
BAR & SNACKS
Alexandria Bell, Untitled , 2015, 15x22.5 inches
Rosena Finister, Untitled, 2015, 30x22.5 inches
Zina Hall, Untitled, 2015, 17.5x23.5 inches
Creative Growth at Park Life Gallery, San Francisco
Groupings Park Life Gallery, San Francisco
July 31 – September 6, 2015
Opening Reception Friday, July 31, 2015 6-9pm
Groupings represents a selection of a selection of works that communicate processes adopted by the artists at Creative Growth. Each work in the show provides insight into the mind and heart of an artist as they find their creative voice and outlet through painting, sculpture, collage, drawing, video, fabric and more. The biographical, nostalgic, and make-believe elements that these artists incorporate into their work will allow the viewer intimate insights into how and why these artists create.
For 40 years, Creative Growth has helped people express something that hadn’t been expressed before. It is more than a place in Oakland. Creative Growth is a feeling and a mindset. It’s a process. And through the personal, joyful and generous process, these people evolve to become artists who create the most illuminating art imaginable.
Including work by Derek Chen, Lawrence Choy, Maureen Clay, Jay Daley, Raydell Early, Rosena Finister, John Hiltunen, Donald Mitchell, Nick Pagan, Tony Pedemonte, Laura Jo Pierce, Aurie Ramirez, Gregory Stoper, Gerone Spruill, William Scott, Judith Scott, William Tyler and Alice Wong.
Park Life Gallery 3049 22nd Street (@ Shotwell) San Francisco, CA 94118
Judith Scott at Derek Eller Gallery, New York
A Rare Earth Magnet Derek Eller Gallery, New York
July 16 – August 21, 2015
Thomas Barrow, Anna-Sophie Berger, Amy Brener, Ann Greene Kelly, Ajay Kurian, Anna Rosen, Judith Scott, Michelle Segre, Nancy Shaver, Sydney Shen and Adam Parker Smith. Organized by Brian Faucette.
Our current cultural landscape is immaterial. Bookended on the one side by iTunes policy of replacing objects with digital access and the canonization of post-studio practices on the opposite end. It’s apparent this shift to the clouds is something larger than a trend. Those who desire to own, hold and manipulate stuff or things have been pushed to the fringes, creating a materialist counter-culture.
The following is an excerpt from a tripadvisor.com forum titled "The Demise of Sea Glass Hunting?"
gottabeach
There is a posting today on Cruise Critic stating there are signs posted now at the beach by Naval Dockyard stating it is “owned by WEDCO and the taking of any sea glass is prohibited and persons will be prosecuted”.Is this true? Is this legal? Please tell me this is NOT SO!
Senior65
It would be interesting to know whether in fact WEDCO can stop all access to the beach. The fact that they have put up a sign doesn't necessarily mean that they can. Hope we get some further information, perhaps from one of the locals. I have the feeling that like other fashionable things to collect, this one will eventually run its course and the problem will solve itself.
KDKSAIL
Think about it for a moment. WEDCO is a semi-autonomous non-governmental organization (a 'quango' established by an Act of Parliament--West End Development Corporation Act 1982) established to manage and develop the old Royal Navy and Canadian Forces military base lands returned to Bermuda's direct control. For all intent and purpose, WEDCO 'owns' the land and may allow, restrict or prohibit access to it.
sonnysullivan
The sign says the beach is open to the public but it's illegal to collect the "natural" sea glass. No such thing as natural sea glass, the word for it is trash and there is no law against picking up trash off of any beach.
gottabeach
Thank you, for looking into this, and all those who responded. My most enjoyable place to be...EVER...is on a beach with Seaglass...listening to the sound of Seaglass tinkling with the waves, the beauty of Seaglass sparkling in the sun, the feel of smooth time weathered Seaglass in the hand. I recognize there are many other things Bermudian but to me this experience is indescribably unique. It saddens me to see or hear of buckets of Seaglass being removed ANYwhere. Most Seaglassers have an unwritten rule...take what you "need" and leave the rest for others. A few "mermaids tears" to remember the sights, sounds and emotions when one can no longer sit on that beach is all that is needed.
More information here.
Derek Eller Gallery 615 W 27th St New York, NY 10001
Judith Scott at Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw | August 22 - December 6, 2015
Forget Me Not Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia
August 22 – December 6, 2015
Forget Me Not focuses on conceptual practices that mirror the process of memory through forgetting--blurring, gaps, irregularities in a normally regular format, bit rot, decay, hidden value, erasure. This group exhibition includes a number of contemporary female artists who are working in the Atlanta area and nationally, as well as non-art and art objects from collections.
Artists include: Kelly Kristin Jones, Katherine Taylor, Penelope Umbrico, Gretchen Hupfel, Lauren Peterson, Zipporah Thompson, Jess Jones, Judith Scott, and Emily Gomez
The exhibition will also present a research project by the curators that will unearth and visualize past significant art events and local organizations in the 1970s that were started, run, or organized by women who are still integral to the arts in Atlanta. This project will compile oral histories, objects, photographs, and maps to look at sites, events, and people who are less known or forgotten today.
More information here.
Zuckerman Museum of Art Kennesaw State University 492 Prillaman Way Kennesaw, GA 30144
Parting Is Such Sorrow Until We Meet Again Tomorrow
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Parting Is Such Sorrow Until We Meet Again Tomorrow Co-curated by Kathleen Henderson
June 25 – July 30, 2015
Every day one hundred artists stream into the Creative Growth studio and take part in a ritual that is performed the world over: they greet each other. They say hello. It’s a simple act, barely noticeable, but one whose profundity is often most noticeable by its absence. In tandem with its bookend goodbye, hello happens again and again, forming a thread of continuity through the day as artists begin to make prints, rugs, films, ceramics, drawings, paintings, and sculptures.
Creative Growth artist Laura Jo Pierce provides the inspiration for Parting Is Such Sorrow Until We Meet Again Tomorrow, a title lifted directly from her signature text-based paintings. In the poetic simplicity of this expression, she captures the bittersweet gesture of having to say goodbye, but with the uplifting hope of reuniting again.
Join us as we reflect on all the ways we come and go—the hurried commute of getting from point A to point B by whatever means necessary, the wistful sendoff that follows a call to duty, or the somber farewell to a person who has passed on too soon. Featuring work by John Martin, George Wilson, Ying Ge Zhou, Rickie Algarva and other emerging artists, this show gives pause to the humdrum salutation that caps our every encounter.
Every day one hundred artists say goodbye. Their rides are here. They say goodbye and like billions of others, they hope it is not for the last time because they understand what loss means. Sometimes it is what their artwork is all about.
POINT-OF-VIEW | Kim Clark: Upstairs in our Viewing Room gallery, Kim Clark commemorates celebrities who have passed away through her sculptural textile “portraits”. This Hollywood memorial of sorts reframes the culture of celebrity as some unattainable “other” life and grounds it in the reality of tragedy and premature endings.
Exhibition Opening & Party THURSDAY, June 25 Members’ Preview: 11AM – 2PM MAIN EVENT: 5PM – 8PM
LIVE FLAMENCO MUSIC BY DAVID PÁEZ BAR & SNACKS
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 10AM – 4:30PM Saturday, 10AM – 3PM
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Laura Jo Pierce, Untitled, 2015, Acrylic paint on paper, 30x44.5 inches
Ying Ge Zhou, Untitled, 2015, Ink on paper, 5.5x7.5 inches
Ying Ge Zhou, Untitled, 2015, Ink on paper, 9x12 inches
George Wilson, Untitled, 2015, Prismacolor on paper, 22x30 inches
John Martin at the Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh
The Nothing That Is: a drawing show in five partsCurated by Bill Thelen & Jason Polan
June 5 – September 7, 2015
CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum) is pleased to present The Nothing That Is: a drawing show in five parts curated by Bill Thelen. This extraordinary exhibition includes more then 85 local, national and international artists all exploring contemporary approaches to drawing, mark making and gesture. The Nothing That Is will be presented in five parts throughout the museum and also includes drawing projects in the community.
More information here.
John Martin, Untitled, 2014, 11.5x17.5 inches
John Martin, Untitled, 2014, 11.5x17.5 inches
Creative Growth at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Heart Is A Lonely HunterCurated by Katy Grannan
June 4, 2015 – August 22, 2015
Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to announce The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, curated by Katy Grannan. This group exhibition will present photographs and other objects by 18 artists, all of whom are being shown at the gallery for the first time.
The title of the exhibition refers to Carson McCullers’ novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and the poem that inspired it, The Lonely Hunter, written by Fiona MacLeod (aka William Sharp). The works selected for the exhibition resonate with pathos, obsession, and vulnerability, and speak to a fundamental source of artistic inspiration: the heart’s private longing.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter will feature works by: David Alekhuogie, Zak Arctander, Elizabeth Bick, Matthew Connors, Dru Donovan, J.W. Fisher, Curran Hatleberg, Fumi Ishino, Dwight Mackintosh, Christopher Miner, Bryson Rand, Heather Rasmussen, Judith Scott, David M. Stein, Ray Vickers, Didier William, Alice Wong, and Ying Ge Zhou.
The artists’ ages and backgrounds vary widely; likewise, the works presented in the exhibition will encompass a wide range of media, including contemporary color and black-and-white photography, figurative and abstract painting, line drawing, mixed-media works, artists’ books, video, and sculpture made with found materials.
Opening Reception Thursday, June 4 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
Creative Growth at The Apartment, Vancouver
Creative GrowthGallery Artists
May 28 - July 4, 2015
The Apartment is very proud to present an exhibition of recent work by gallery artists from Creative Growth. For over 42 years, Creative Growth Art Center, in Oakland, California, has served as a studio space and gallery for people with developmental, physical and mental disabilities. Believed to be the oldest and largest such program in the world, the Center’s philosophy is to allow for the creative talent in every person to develop. Currently serving over 160 artists, it has been a model program for numerous others world-wide. Creative Growth’s goal is to have its people be seen as leading contemporary artists, and is proud to have three of them to be the only artists with developmental disabilities to have their work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In conjunction to this exhibition, The Apartment has partnered with Inclusion BC to present an on stage discussion about the accomplishments of Creative Growth. The Apartment director Lee Plested will speak with Creative Growth director Tom Di Maria about their impressive record of launching the careers of artists with developmental disabilities. The discussion will focus on the expansion of Creative Growth's physical resources, strategic plan and trajectory of the artists who participate in their programs by placing their work directly into the commercial art mainstream. The conversation will then open up to a larger discussion with Amy Nugent from Inclusion BC and internationally renowned Vancouver-based artist Gareth Moore.
We would like to thank Tom di Maria, Amy Nugent, Christina Hirukawa, Gareth Moore and Inclusion BC for organizing and facilitating this program.
John Hiltunen, Untitled (Chicken in Jungle), 2015, collage
Lawrence Choy, Untitled, 2015, ceramic
Discussion with Tom di Maria, Lee Plested & Inclusion BC Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:30-5:30pm Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Pavilion Ballroom 1088 Burrard St Vancouver, BC V6Z 2R9
Opening Reception Thursday May 28, 2015 6-9pm
The Apartment 119B E Pender Vancouver BC V6A 1T6 +1.604.336.4046 theapt.ca
Home 2015: In Habit
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Home 2015: In Habit
May 1 – June 12, 2015
Make a habit of coming to our annual Home Show! Creative Growth invites you to explore anew your daily rituals and routines at this year’s exhibition entitled In Habit. As habits become repetitive and repetition becomes habit, we find ourselves in a cyclical relationship of recurring rituals and automatic replies. Whether it’s that cold bowl of cereal that starts your day or some scrupulous lawn mowing that provides Zen to your weekend, this group of artwork augments depictions of quotidian aspects of life, with a Creative Growth twist on the habitual actions we take for granted.
Featuring over 50 artists and artworks of all media, there’s bound to be a piece that caters to your everyday routine. The mundane “on, off” of a light switch is elevated through the artistic lens of Dan Miller; Christine Szeto translates incessant pop culture references into embroidered Mandarin on an arm chair; even the most rudimentary habit of all—knowing your ABCs—is infused with humor and personality through a collaborative print edition by 26 artists. Reward yourself for that deep Spring clean with bold and exciting one-of-a-kind quilts, custom furniture, ceramics, wood sculpture, painting and much more!
Exhibition Opening: Friday May 1 during Oakland’s Art Murmur Members' Preview: 11AM - 2PM Main Event: 5PM - 9PM
LIVE MUSIC BAR & SNACKS
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Creative Growth Art Center 355 24th Street, Oakland CA 94612 USA
stARTup Fair, San Francisco | May 1-3, 2015
Room 315 Public Hours: Friday, May 1 Noon - 7:00 PM
Saturday, May 2 Noon - 10:00 PM
Sunday, May 3 Noon - 8:00 PM
Featuring short films from the Creative Growth Video Production Workshop and representing Creative Growth artists Terri Bowden, Gina Damerell and John Hiltunen.
Hotel Del Sol 3100 Webster St. San Francisco, CA
Hillsborough Garden Club Flower Show Featuring Creative Growth
Works from Creative Growth Art Center will be featured and serve as inspiration for Hillsborough Garden Club’s 2015 Flower Show. Several of the artists’ works will be available for purchase at the event. Garden Club of America members from around the country will interpret the art and create works in floral design, horticulture, photography, botanical jewelry and conservation.
Creative Growth Flower Show Burlingame Woman’s Club 241 Park Road, Burlingame, CA
Open to the Public 10 - 5:30 | Friday, April 24 10 - 3:30 | Saturday, April 25
Free and open to the public!