Dwight Mackintosh, Donald Mitchell, and Dan Miller | American Dream | Direct Art Gallery | Düsseldorf

November 4 - December 22, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, November 4, 6-9pm

Direct Art Gallery opens its exhibition No 11 "American Dream" during this year's joint gallery weekend "Kunst in der Carlstadt" alongside established galleries from the gallery district. For this occasion, Direct Art Gallery is happy to announce its participation with three renowned American artists from the Californian studio Creative Growth. Creative Growth is one the oldest studios for handicapped artists in the United States.

Dwight Mackintosh helped Creative Growth gain international recognition. After being institutionalized for 56 years, he was discovered by art historian John MacGregor and began working at Creative Growth, where he pursued his art until his death in 1999. His solo exhibition in the 1993 "Collection de l’Art Brut" in Lausanne became an important milestone in his artistic career. From complex linear structures Mackintosh developed human figures that merge into their spatial surroundings or into flowing rows of letters. Their limbs are strikingly enlarged and multiplied. The figures seem to be simultaneously visible from all perspectives. The partly oscillating, partly serrated lines intensify and unravel so that a complex and expressive rhythm dominates the page.

Donald Mitchell was born in San Francisco in 1951 and has worked at Creative Growth since 1986. Dense, crosshatched fields cover the surfaces of his early works. The thick coats of color do not let one assume the use of preliminary sketches. After many years of condensing his works, Mitchell began to disinter figures that had been hidden beneath the mass of colors and lines. Some of his works testify to this process of disclosure. These days, figures that appear flattened and markedly reduced in formal language populate his drawings. The repetition of nearly identical forms causes the figures to become uniform, anonymous, and finally ornamental. Yet Mitchell thus varies all the more his characteristic stroke and the color compositions of his works, creating a wide spectrum of atmospheres.

Dan Miller writes and overwrites until obliteration. His marks thicken into complex structures and grids, at times in free compositions, at times in layers compressed one into the next. The process of layering arrestingly colored signs on top of each other stays visible up to the last layer. Words like "lightbulb," "socket," as well as the names of cities and foods enter into his structures of script. Dan Miller was born in Castro Valley in 1961 and has worked at Creative Growth since 1992. He is among the well-established artists in the studio and is represented in numerous collections, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

DIRECT ART GALLERY Citadellstraße 15, 40213 Düsseldorf +49 (0)211 / 86 28 07 30  info@directartgallery.de www.directartgallery.de

Dan Miller Featured | Escape Routes | John Michael Kohler Arts Center | Sheboygan, WI

October 2, 2016– January 22, 2017RECEPTION: October 1, 7:30-10:30pm, purchase tickets

Explore the impulse to get away from it all through works of contemporary art including photography, sculpture, video, paintings, and drawings.

This series of five original exhibitions takes visitors along various routes the artists have chosen as their means of eluding the pressures and anxieties of 21st-century living. Going off the grid lures some. Some create portals to other realities or shift their attention to inventing fantastical worlds. Still others flee the burdensome present through mind-consuming, highly detailed processes.

Participating artists include: Emery Blagdon (1907–1986), Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin (Russia), Cole Caswell (ME), Laurent Chéhère (France), Justin Cooper (NY), Russell Crotty (CA), Hiroyuki Doi (Japan), Andrea Joyce Heimer (WA), Hipkiss (France), Patrick Jacobs (NY), Robin Kang (NY), Jed Lind (CA), Theo Michael (Mexico), Dan Miller (CA), Ethan Murrow (MA), Melvin Edward Nelson (1908–1992), Stas Orlovski (CA), Alexis Rockman (NY), and Hiraki Sawa (England).

For exhibition information, click here.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 920-458-6144 jmkac.org 

Judith Scott | Oakville Galleries | Oakville, Ontario

25 September – 30 December 2016RECEPTION: Sunday, September 25, 2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Late American artist Judith Scott (1943–2005) is widely known for her engrossing, enigmatic fibre sculptures. Enveloping found objects—from wood to magazines to bicycle wheels—in yarn, thread and knotted cloth, Scott created dynamic, strikingly original forms from the sparest of materials.

In the 18 years that would follow until her death, Scott would produce a masterful body of work, achieving international recognition for her arresting sculptural forms. Surveyed here in Canada for the first time, this exhibition will cover a broad spectrum of Scott's output, foregrounding its formal innovation and visual complexity, and charting her significant influence on contemporary sculptural practices.

Judith Scott is presented in partnership with the 2016 World of Threads Festival.

For more information, click here.

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

120 Navy Street, Oakville, ON L6J 2Z4

905.844.4402 - Tues-Thurs 12-8pm, Fri 12-5pm, Sat 10-5pm, Sun 1-5pm

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George Wilson and Donald Mitchell Featured | The Fabio Cei Collection | Casale Monferrato, Italy

September 17 – October 15, 2016 A public exhibition of works from the private collection of Fabio Cei, including Creative Growth artists George Wilson and Donald Mitchell, is on view at the Casale Monferrato Castle.

For information about the location of this exhibition, click here.

Castle of Monferrato Piazza Castello, Casale Monferrato, Italy Tel. 0142.444.329

William Scott Featured | After Pop Life | Minnesota Street Project | San Francisco, CA

September 14 – October 1, 2016 RECEPTION: Saturday, September 17, 6-8pm CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 1, 8-11pm 

After Pop Life is an exhibition and event series inspired by the late musical genius and cultural force of Prince, whose untimely passing earlier this year marked a moment of tremendous loss, but also appreciation of his gifts to culture. With works by more than thirty contemporary artists, the exhibition honors the pervasiveness of Prince’s legacy and how his prodigious musical output and indelible personal style seem more alive than ever. The project will activate two galleries in the Minnesota Street Project complex with artworks that are at once thoughtful, playful, and of course, sexy.

Organized by critic and curator Glen Helfand, the exhibition pays tribute to Prince as a multitalented figure who not only wrote, recorded and performed his music, but also made films, fostered and supported other artists, designed clothes, and was a generous, humble philanthropist, particularly in the Bay Area. Less a memorial than a tribute to how many lives Prince touched, how many dance floors he activated, and how his work provided the soundtrack to meaningful moments in so many lives, the show probes how certain pop stars seep deeply into our consciousness—we each own him in our own way. Those who revere Prince, in a sense, appropriate an aspect of The Artist.  The exhibition celebrates and considers his actions and ideas of an astoundingly generous performer, who was also presciently, steadfastly in control of the ownership of his music and visual style.

“Of course the music is the starting point,” says Helfand. “The passion felt for Prince, not to mention his highly defined visual aesthetic—and all that purple—make him such a compelling, inspiring figure. His presence brings up so many issues, big topics like sexuality, race, and belief, but his work also offers such unfettered pleasure. Prince brings so many people together. I was so struck to find out just the incredible range of artists who were so deeply affected by his passing.”

More than thirty artists will exhibit drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation and a karaoke project that riff on all things Prince. The art will express deep familiarity of specific songs, album covers, mediated moments, pure adoration and the less tangible aspects of the Prince aura. The gallery complex’s media room will be transformed into a karaoke lounge within which visitors can croon their favorite Prince hits to existing and artist-made videos during gallery hours.

Participating artists include: Sadie Barnette, Paulina Bercynski, Libby Black, Rebeca Bollinger, Bonanza, Luke Butler, Maria Guzman Capron, Sofia Cordova, Veronica de Jesus, Didi Dunphy, Marco Garcia, James Gobel, Daniel Green, Rachel Harrison, Cliff Hengst, Scott Hewicker, David Huffman, Geoff Kaplan and Yisha Dai: General Working Group, Kevin Killian, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Jason Lazarus, Rodney McMillian, Kori Newkirk, Adam Novak, Jennie Ottinger, Erika Ranee, Rex Ray, Yukari Sakura, William Scott, Tamra Seal, Jenny Sharaf, Wayne Smith, Sarah Thibault, Lava Thomas, Gina Tuzzi, Anne Walsh, Jenifer Wofford, Marilyn Wong and others.

The exhibition is a follow-up to a legendary 1993 exhibition titled Pop Life, also organized by Helfand, which was staged at San Francisco’s New Langton Arts on the eve of Prince’s San Francisco concerts of that year. The outpouring of interest and emotion that came after Prince’s death in April was an inspiration to revisit and update the project. After Pop Life includes artists from the original exhibition including Rex Ray, Cliff Hengst, Scott Hewicker, and Wayne Smith. A 32-page exhibition publication, designed by General Working Group, will be produced for the show and will feature original digital collage and essays by Helfand.

After Pop Life will also highlight Prince’s quiet philanthropy. Prince helped to launch the Oakland-based #YesWeCode initiative dedicated to transforming the talent pipeline to increase opportunity in the tech sector.

For more information on #YesWeCode and Prince’s support, visit here. For exhibition information, visit here.

EVENTS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 5PM-8PM Reception and literary evening featuring a stage reading of noted San Francisco writer Kevin Killian’s Poet’s Theater play, Life After Prince, written in 1993 and updated this year, which wittily follows a string of female Prince protégés to the unemployment office. Reception to follow from 6-8 p.m.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 8PM-11PM A GLAM SLAM closing event on October 1st will feature "23 Positions in a One Night Stand," a BNNZA fashion performance organized by Bonanza in collaboration with Marco Garcia and Maria Capron. Inspired by Prince’s notorious 1991 MTV Music Awards performance of the song Gett Off, the show will feature Prince-inspired looks, fierce posturing and durational performances that will activate and accent a full-on dance party in the Minnesota Street Project Atrium. Proceeds from this closing event will support #YesWeCode. Purchase tickets here.

1275 MINNESOTA ST / GALLERY 104 + MEDIA GALLERY San Francisco, CA 94107 415.243.0825 - Tues-Sat 11am-6pm minnesotastreetproject.com

Dan Miller | Click | Diane Rosenstein Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

September 10 – October 15, 2016 RECEPTION: Saturday, September 10, 6-8pm

Diane Rosenstein is pleased to announce Dan Miller: Click, a solo exhibition of paintings by the Oakland-based artist. This show will present both painted and typed works on paper created by Miller at the Creative Growth Art Center from 2010 - 2016.  This is Dan Miller's first show at the gallery and in Los Angeles.

Dan Miller enfolds gesture and text in compositions that articulate an innate and pure language.   His paintings (all works on paper) are a coalescence of line and memory that reveal then conceal the artist's elegant outlook.   He immerses repeated words and symbolic motifs in a vigorous palette of acrylics, inks and graphite.  Letters are drawn then overdrawn, evoking a pattern language.

Dan Miller (USA, b. 1961) has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, and the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, CA.  He had a solo exhibition at White Columns (2007), NYC and was included in group shows at BAM/PFA and ABCD, Paris, France.

Read the press release here.

DIANE ROSENSTEIN GALLERY 831 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038 1.323.462.2790- Tues - Sat 10am-6pm

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BINARIES

September 8, 2016 – October 20, 2016 PRESS IMAGES BELOW

Although black and white thinking can often be limited to two points of view, taking a closer look reveals that each one is actually made up of infinite shades of grey. Inspired by such fluid notions of opposites, Creative Growth Art Center invites you to discover works that revisit binaries as defined by formal aesthetics like black/white, rough/smooth, and graphic/painterly, as well as by the more topical political contrast between Republicans and Democrats in light of the approaching Presidential Election. Each juxtaposition, whether literal or political, challenges the human tendency to alienate the different and unfamiliar based on defining one extreme.

George Wilson presents a new series of stark ink drawings based on Communist propaganda posters while Ron Veasey illustrates a skeptical face in the presence of the Republican elephant symbol. Artists Dan Miller and Barry Regan reference opposites from a color wheel perspective—Dan using complimentary tones of orange and blue to compose his signature fine-lined drawings and Barry reversing his usual circle motif by drawing round outlines in white ink on black paper.

Nicole Storm’s double-sided works further the duality of painting when both sides are utilized to translate a vision, just as John Martin’s iconic ceramic fists point to a historical movement that sought to empower rather than isolate. Through polarities defined by the artists of Creative Growth, the viewer must evaluate if they are opposites at all or simply parts of a whole.

Designing the White On the ramp, Designing the White presents works made in a recent visiting artist workshop led by Min Gu on Chinese painting and calligraphy techniques. Exploring the diversity of mark making, Creative Growth artists have generated multiple iterations on Xuan (rice) paper, playing with black/white, dry/wet, and concentrated/diluted binaries.

Exhibition Opening: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 MEMBERS’ PREVIEW: 11AM - 2PM MAIN EVENT: 5PM - 8PM LIVE FLAMENCO MUSIC BY DAVID PÁEZ BAR + SNACKS

Creative Growth Artists Featured | Outside | Karma | Amagansett, NY

September 3 – September 25, 2016   Opening Reception: September 3, 2016 – 6 to 8 pm

Outside—as in: out-of-doors, as in: not belonging to.

Outside is the fourth and final presentation in Karma’s 2016 summer season of landscape-fixated exhibitions in Amagansett. Outside has been curated by White Columns’ director Matthew Higgs and includes the work of more than thirty artists (of all persuasions.)

The ‘outside’ alluded to in the exhibition’s title is as much a physical place (i.e. the world around us) as it is a psychological state (as evidenced by the mercurial sensibilities of so-called ‘Outsider’ art.) It is in this liminal space—between what can be measured or depicted and that which remains unknowable—that Outside seeks to operate. The artists in Outside, of many generations, both conventionally and unconventionally trained, subscribe to no recognizable ideology or tendency. If Kippenberger had his ‘psychobuildings’, Outside has its ‘psychogeographies’ or perhaps more accurately its ‘psychotopographies’. Outside ultimately suggests that our sense of ‘place’—like our sense of ‘self’—remains elusive: a shape-shifting terrain, constantly in flux.

Participating artists: Etel Adnan, Aaron Birnbaum, Pearl Blauvelt, Robert Bordo, David Byrd, Brian Calvin, James Castle, Jane Corrigan, Andrew Cranston, Verne Dawson, Louis M. Eilshemius, Embah, Tom Fairs, Rocco Fama, Bruno del Favero, Jeff Funnell, Maureen Gallace, Pam Glick, Ray Hamilton, Daniel Heidkamp, John Hiltunen, Merlin James, Chris Johanson, Christopher Knowles, Nate Lowman, Bill Lynch, Dwight Mackintosh, Noel McKenna, Marlon Mullen, Annie Pearlman, Helen Rae, Aurie Ramirez, Jessi Reaves, Tyson Reeder, Adrianne Rubenstein, Sven Sachsalber, William Scott, Spencer Sweeney, Danny Thach, Wiliam Tyler, Matthew Wong, Joseph Yoakum

Matthew Higgs would like to thank all of the participating artists and their galleries for their enthusiasm, generosity and support. Thanks also to Brendan, Marie and the entire team at Karma, without whom this exhibition could not have happened.

Karma 249 MAIN STREET, AMAGANSETT, NY 11930 631.267.7728 - Mon—Sun, 11AM—7PM karmakarma.org

Cedric Johnson | Franklin, A Word Nobody Ever Seems to Say | Ampersand Gallery | Portland, OR

August 25 – September 25, 2016RECEPTION: Thursday, August 25, 6-8pm

Ampersand is pleased to present Franklin, A Word Nobody Ever Seems to Say, a solo exhibition of Cedric Johnson’s brightly colored and deeply imaginative works on paper and ceramic masks. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1952, Johnson has been making art for over 25 years at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. Speaking of his own work, he simply says that it comes “straight up from my imagination.” Taking clues from his titles, it is evident that this imaginary world is at once rooted in the everyday and oddly fantastical. A dynamic line drawing of two blocky women, for instance, is titled Mother and Daughter, while Let’s Get Married features a trio of well-dressed, disproportionate figures. At the other extreme, we have The Creeper, whose multicolored, distorted face and toothy grin is certainly a bit creepy, whereas a series of abstractions titled The Creature is dependent on what you bring to the work and will likely shift each time you view it. Central to the exhibition are Johnson’s ceramic masks. Like his works on paper, the masks are made of cubistic parts and are finished with bold, glossy colors, bringing alive the world of his drawings in larger-than-life dimensions.

This is Cedric Johnson’s first solo exhibition. His work has been featured in group shows, among them Chromatic: 35 Colorful Years of Creative Growth, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco and John Hiltunen +1, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, curated by Matthew Higgs.

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Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books 2916 NE Alberta St., B, Portland, OR 97211

503.805.5458- Wed-Sat 12pm to 7pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm ampersandgallerypdx.com

Creative Growth at SF Art Book Fair | July 22-24, 2016

Venue: Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco, California 94107 www.minnesotastreetproject.com

The 2016 San Francisco Art Book Fair presents its inaugural event of an annual festival of artists’ publications. This multi-day event is free and open to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists' multiples. These works, ranging from five dollars to several hundred dollars, will be presented by 70 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend, the fair will be complimented by a diverse range of talks, book launches, and signings.

The mission of the SFABF is to celebrate the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to present their work to a new audience.

Preview: July 22, 6–10pm, (featuring live music and refreshments- FREE) Saturday July 23rd, 11am–6pm Sunday July 24th, 11am–5pm

For more information, visit www.sfartbookfair.com

Art Osaka Fair | July 1-3, 2016

Now in its 14th year, the contemporary art fair will take place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of July (preview on Friday 1st) at Hotel Granvia Osaka.53 art galleries from both Japan and abroad will exhibit works from emerging to internationally recognized artists. Dozens of the hotel’s rooms will be transformed into temporary galleries, displaying an exciting array of work, from painting print and sculpture to video installation. Under one roof, with such a diverse selection of artwork, there is something special for everyone at ART OSAKA 2016. We gladly welcome you to join us this year to view, browse and be inspired by the chosen artworks.

See link for all the specifics: http://www.artosaka.jp/

Friday, July 1 @ 2:00 PM - Sunday, July 3 @ 7:00 PM (JST)

Hotel Granvia Osaka 26th Floor 3-1-1 Umeda Kita-ku Osaka 5300001 JAPAN T :+81(0)6 6344 1235

 

REDUX

July 1 – August 19, 2016 Join Creative Growth in a celebration of a new era of open source art-making, reflecting on what’s old, picking apart what’s new, and adapting to what is forever changing-- via the lens of visionary artists.

REDUX highlights work that addresses new paradigms around technology through the use of media ranging from digital drawings to video.

Inspired by the new digital tools available to them, the artists showcased in REDUX shine new light on past subject matter. In Susan Janow’s video short Three Moments in the Life of the Kool-Aid Guy, the artist invents a new history by collaging footage into clever scenes, re-inventing the nostalgic ‘Kool-Aid’ character. Nick Pagan’s Headbanging gifs breathe new life into the iconic gesture associated with the 1970s heavy metal scene while Carlos Fernandez appropriates renowned works of contemporary art into reductive masterpieces of his own via Adobe Illustrator.

William Tyler’s animated video Mr. Robot and Son juxtaposes imagined alternate realities against a more tangible emotional narrative--a son yearning for his father’s attention--that speaks to our own social interactions and basic human instincts. Terri Bowden’s series of vector drawings illuminates how we experience color, each geometric landscape a deeper investigation into the sublime realm of the abstract.

POINT-OF-VIEW | Carrie Oyama Emerging artist Carrie Oyama presents a new series of delicate line drawings and revisits her performance art past through a video projection that traces the fragile rendering of her drawn compositions.

Creative Growth will be open late for the opening on July 1, until 9pm, during Oakland’s Art Murmur gallery walk, with live music by Mark Aubert and drinks in the Gallery.

Exhibition Opening: JULY 1 MEMBERS’ PREVIEW: 11AM - 2PM FRIDAY, July 1 during Oakland Art Murmur 5PM – 9PM

LIVE MUSIC by Mark Aubert BAR & SNACKS

Gallery Hours: M-F 10:00-4:30 Saturdays 10:00-3:00

Dan Miller Featured | Signed & Numbered at Jules Maeght Gallery

May 19 - September 10, 2016 | Opening Reception: May 19, 2016 – 6 to 9 pm The Jules Maeght Gallery presents Signed and Numbered, a group exhibition of original works and limited edition prints and sculptures by a diverse international group of both emerging and established artists, including Sharaine Bell, Eduardo Chillida, Jean Cortot, Marco Del Re, Luc Doerflinger, Olivier Gagnère, Cécile Granier de Cassagnac, Ra’anan Levy, Dan Miller, Pierre Roy-camille, and Antoni Tàpies.

The relationship between the artist’s creativity and the printmaker’s métier has been integral to the Maeght family’s involvement in contemporary art since the 1930s when Aimé Maeght began his career as a printmaker. Working in the edition formats such as lithography, etching, ceramics or silk scarves allows artists to not only employ alternative visual languages and media but to work with a specialist in the respective technique. This unique marriage between the specialist’s knowledge and the artist’s creativity, allows for new interpretations, new materials, and new surfaces, resulting in entirely original works. Signed and Numbered showcases work including paintings, lithographs, etching, ceramics and silk scarves. Large etchings by Spanish artists Eduardo Chillida and Antoni Tàpies evoke their greater oeuvre; Chillida’s Euzkadi V (1974) recalls his monumental abstract sculptural, while the heavy application of carborundum in Tàpies’ Chiffres et flèches (1976) relays his tendency to use low, repulsive material in order to reevaluate the comprehension of traditional art.

The juxtaposition of painting and lithography is best highlighted in the work of Marco Del Re, SharaineBell and Dan Miller. Where the mark making is evidently an important feature of Del Re’s acrylic on Nepalese paper Memoire del’aged’or II (2004), his lithographs show a familiar vibrancy and energy. Bell and Miller’s work demonstrates a different sort of orderly chaos, the former restraining images of natural disaster to the picture plane while the latter draws and paints words repeatedly until the letters themselves are layered to the point that they are indistinguishable from one another.

Signed and Numbered introduces numerous artists from the Galerie Maeght in Paris; including Oliver Gagnère, Jean Cortot, and Ra’anan Levy. Gagnère works across multiple mediums and dimensions but is most known for his elegant ceramics. Cortot, as much a poet as a painter, incorporates word play as an additional dimension in his work while Paris based Israeli artist Levy creates extraordinary depth and dimension in his paintings and etchings of everyday occurrences such as hands and hallways. The trio of young French artists Luc Doerflinger, Cécile Granier de Cassagnac and Pierre Roy-camille, are featured again at the Jules Maeght Gallery, this time in a more in-depth examination of their etchings and original works.Signed and Numbered explores these visual differences in artists work by placing originals alongside editions that have been cast or printed. The goal of working in editions is neither to reproduce nor recreate an existing work; rather it is to extend the artists practice. This spring/summer 2016 exhibition at the Jules Maeght Gallery celebrates the rich Maeght family legacy of working intimately with artists and showcases this fruitful marriage with an exceptional and diverse selection of original artworks and editions.

Jules Maeght Gallery 149 Gough St. - San Francisco - CA 94102 info@julesmaeghtgallery.com - (415) 549-7046 

William Scott featured | Mapping Fictions | Good Luck Gallery | LA

Mapping Fictions: Daniel Green • William Scott • Roger Swike • Joe Zaldivar  July 9 – August 27, 2016

 RECEPTION: Saturday July 9, 7 – 10pm

The Good Luck Gallery is honored to present a show curated by Andreana Donahue and Tim Ortiz of Disparate Minds, a website that is dedicated to documenting progressive art studios. Their aim is to create a greater understanding of the importance of artists living with developmental disabilities in the context of the contemporary art world. Four artists will be on display, each of whom incorporates text into their work in a singular manner.

William Scott, whose work resides in the permanent collections of MOMA and Harlem’s Studio Museum, attends the Creative Growth studio in Oakland. He paints with an evangelical fervor, producing exuberant text-laden paintings of an idealized San Francisco. The Good Luck Gallery will be showing paintings that are part of an ambitious urban planning project - consisting of carefully detailed architectural drawings - that imagines the razing and subsequent renewal of his own socially marginalized neighborhood of Hunter’s Point.

William Scott along with the other artists from different Centers are united by an interest in the mapping and archiving of information. They have been selected as some of the finest currently working in Progressive art studios around the country. The show will be on display from July 9  to August 27, 2016.

The Good Luck Gallery 945 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, Ca 90012 www.thegoodluckgallery.com 213-625-0935 - WED-SUN 12-6PM

Home 2016: Where Horror Meets Hilarity Meets Adventure

Spring is in the air: days are longer, flowers are in bloom, and summer vacation is on the horizon. Why not shake up this idyllic time of year with some quirky excitement from Creative Growth’s annual Home show? This time, we stop at the peculiar intersection Where Horror Meets Hilarity Meets Adventure, an exhibition title borrowed from John Martin’s drawing of a Simpsons character gone rogue. With new work from over fifty artists, this show features the latest curious creations from the Studio. The show highlights Creative Growth artists’ interest in twisting reality and manipulating elements of pop culture. John Hiltunen brings us a jovial gathering of Muppet-human hybrids, Terri Bowden contributes elfin albinos and festively coiffed animals, and Aurie Ramirez brings an assortment of ice cream treats – decked out in the artist’s signature harlequin style – to the party. Carlos Perez’s ceramic monsters mingle with Ying Ge Zhou’s haunting portraits, and a few Internet sensations, pop-culture celebrities, and foreign dignitaries make special appearances. As always an expansive array of furniture, quilts, pillows, ceramics, and wood sculpture rounds out this little shop of horrors, so you can incorporate a little hilarity or adventure into your own humble abode.

Also on view is a recent body of work from our Saturday Youth Program, where young artists gather in the Creative Growth studio every weekend to explore their talents in various mediums from wood to textiles.

Exhibition Opening: FRIDAY, MAY 6 MEMBERS’ PREVIEW: 11AM - 2PM MAIN EVENT: 5PM - 9PM

LIVE MUSIC by Sun Hop Fat BAR + SNACKS

May 6 - June 17, 2016

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