Entwined is the story of Creative Growth artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being rescued by her sister. A personal narrative that explores the complex world of disability, loss, reunion, and resiliency of the human spirit. Written by Judith's twin sister, Joyce Wallace Scott. Available in the Creative Growth gallery and online here.
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
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
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
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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
PRESS IMAGES BELOW:
William Scott: Painting Utopia T. di Maria Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California, USA Received 30 January 2016; Accepted 17 March 2016; First published online 18 April 2016 Key words: Autism, contemporary art, outsider art, Schizophrenia.
An artist’s biography, and the personal circumstances under which an artwork is made, can add to our understanding of his or her work. Biography should not be our first concern as we view an artwork, but can play an important role in our full understanding of an artist’s work.
There are infinite possibilities to what a painting can look like. In the paintings of William Scott (b. 1964), we see self-portraits, cityscapes, buildings and pictures of imaginary friends. Aesthetically, these works have compelling associations with photorealistic paintings, West African signage, and architectural studies. Yet the content of these works depict an altered realitythat at first may not be immediately understood. Together, these images depict a utopian world filled with renewed urban structures, revised personal histories and the rebirth of entire cities and their citizens.
There is evidence of artists with autism having the capacity to study and store visual detail and to call forth these memorised elements in their work (Cardinal, 2009). William Scott is such an artist. His architectural depictions of skyscrapers, hospitals and urban landscapes are drafted from memory, often with acute attention to detail and mapping (Figs 1 and 2).
William’s vision of the future, and his talent as an artist, are influenced by his dual diagnosis. Living on the autistic spectrum, and with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, William has developed a style of work that incorporates both his outstanding attention to detail, and his belief in a fantasied utopian reality.
As a child with disabilities growing up in an often violent and economically poor neighbourhood in San Francisco, William was exposed to random street violence, scenes of poverty and neglected urban housing projects. Seeking to rise above these circumstances, he assigned himself a herculean task: to paint away these injustices, and to craft a new order of wholesome positive people living in a renewed and positive world.
With the support of a local librarian, Scott made his way to the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California, a noted centre for artists with disabilities. Working there for over 25 years, his painting technique and his path towards fantasy increased. ‘The distance between what Scott believes and imagines and what the audience responds to are different, reflecting the difference between the painting being a kind of time machine to alter reality and a mere depiction of an imaginary new work’ (Trainor, 2006).
As an example, in a self-portrait, Scott depicts himself in 1977 as ‘Billy the Kid.’ Using the painting as a vehicle to travel back to his childhood, he imagines his young self as happy, successful at basketball, popular and without disabilities. The painting becomes a transformative tool, one that reinvents the past with the hope that it will turn his current reality into the life he fully desires.
His memory painting of San Francisco General Hospital is not merely a startling image constructed from recollection, but also a time machine designed to transport Scott back to the moments before an accident sent him to the hospital’s burn unit. Preoccupied by the permanent scar left on his body from the incident, he attempts to paint away the accident itself by going back in time and erasing it from his personal history.
Most striking are Scott’s space ships that fly under the banner of ‘Inner Limits.’ The glowing faces of young African-American men and women who seem to have just stepped from the craft surround these vessels. What we are witnessing is their rebirth. These are people that William cares for, those killed by drugs and street violence. His spaceship is the vehicle for bringing those taken from this world back to us for a second life filled with hope and a new reality.
In the exhibition called Alternative Guide to the Universe, at the Hayward Gallery in London, Ralph Rugoff presented artists whose work seeks to change reality. Scott was in good company with others whose numbering systems, scientific investigations and fantasied realties teetered on the edge of invented new worlds. There, Scott’s work ‘invites us to think outside of our conventional categories and ultimately to question our definitions of ‘normal’ art and science’ (Rugoff, 2013).
One must ask if Scott’s paintings fulfil the hope of the artist, if they do in fact change the reality in which he lives. Scott often struggles with reality not changing in accordance with his paintings. Sparkling new housing projects have not been built; those tragically killed from random violence have not come back to life. However, his art has indeed changed his life. From his early years as a child with disabilities in an under-privileged environment, to an adult whose work has now been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Studio Museum of Harlem, one can argue that his method of transforming reality into a more vibrant and wholesome encounter with the world seems to be working.
References Cardinal R (2009). Outsider Art and the Autistic Creator, Vol. 364, pp. 1459–1466. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: London. Rugoff R (2013). Alternative Guide to the Universe. Hayward Gallery Publishing: London. Trainor J (2006). Experimental Art, pp. 33–34. Frieze Magazine, London.
About the author Tom di Maria is Director of the Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California since 2000. Creative Growth was founded in the early 1970s and is the world’s oldest and largest art center for people with disabilities in the USA. Today the centre serves over 150 artists with developmental disabilities every week in its spacious art studio and gallery. Under di Maria’s administration Creative Growth gained a high-visibility position in the Contemporary Art scene and an impressive market success. Art pieces from Creative Growth are displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; at the Oakland Museum of California; at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and were recently acquired by Facebook, Christie’s and the Smithsonian. Prior to pushing the boundaries from Outsider Art into Contemporary Art, di Maria was Assistant Director of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley and Executive Director of GLAAD/ San Francisco, and Director the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. He recently released the new publication The Creative Growth Book (5 Continents Press) and speaks around the world on Creative Growth’s artists and programmes.
New York, NY – The ninth annual Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition opened April 18, at Palitz Gallery located in Syracuse University’s Lubin House at 11 East 61st Street, New York City. Palitz Gallery proudly hosts the exhibition that was created to draw attention to the achievements of artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities, for its sixth year. Exhibition hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Contact 212-826-0320 or lubin@syr.edu for more information. The exhibition runs through May 15th.
Each of the award winners receive a portion of a $60,000 per year allotment from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation and this year 15 works including watercolor, works on paper, acrylic on canvas and mixed media will be on display. The grant winners include Derrick Alexis Coard, CourttneyCooper, Nick Dupree, Carolyn Lazard, Dan Miller, Alice Sheppard and Constantina Zavitsanos.
Nearly half of the artists in this exhibition are represented by organizations that support artists with disabilities. Each of these organizations know that the artists they nurture can excel and make work as incisive, challenging to viewers and experiential as any able-bodied artist. Healing Arts Initiative, who works with Derrick Alexis Coard, exists to remove barriers to arts and culture. Dan Miller is represented by Creative Growth Art Center an organization that serves adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities while providing a professional studio environment for artistic development. Visionaries + Voices emerged in 2001 and in 2003 became a full non-profit that organizes shows and presents the work of artists with disabilities. V+V is now a home for hundreds of artists in and around Cincinnati including Courttney Cooper.
The Creative Growth 6th annual Beyond Trend Runway Event & Fundraiser was a great success! With your support we exceeded our fundraising goal on the night of the event while collectively celebrating the visionary style of the Creative Growth artists on the runway! If you missed Beyond Trend in person this year, there is still time to contribute to over 150 artists with disabilities and their studio program. Every dollar we raise during this time goes towards our Beyond Trend goal. We look forward to seeing you in the Creative Growth gallery very soon or if you are out of town please find our limited edition artist merchandise online here. Thank you for becoming part of the Creative Growth community--your support makes all of this work possible.
Thank you to our incredible sponsors and collaborators:
Major Sponsors Mark di Suvero Anonymous
Honorary Event Chairs Kim Hastreiter, Paige Powell and Alice Waters
Runway Chairs Chad Graff and Joann Falkenburg Dinner Chairs Jane Timberlake and Taylor Walker Creative Design Chair Lauren McIntosh Walrod
Table Hosts & Sponsors Chad Graff and Joann Falkenburg, Dee Hoover and Stephen Beal, Jane Timberlake and Taylor Walker, Jennifer and Colin Cooper, Kim Hastreiter, Levi Strauss & Company, Old Navy, Stephen Walrod and Lauren McIntosh Walrod
Musical Guest Pink Martini
Guest Emcee Frank Somerville
Fashion Hosts Ben and Chris Ospital
Runway Team Karen Anderson, Liz Baca, Rachel Cubra, Anne Hartford, Creative Growth Artists
Chefs Charlie Hallowell, Pizzaiolo Cal Peternell, Chez Panisse
Aesop Andronico’s Beaune Imports Bellwether Farms Blueprint Studios, Allison Staley Brokaw Farms Cannard Farm Canopy Floral, Haia Sophia California Olive Ranch Carly Roemmer Cheryl Dunn Chez Pannise Chris Kronner Creative Growth Studio Artists Creative Growth Volunteer Team Creative Growth Decor Team Djinti Edda Cortez Events by Collette, Collette Simko-Knauss Fort Point Beer Co. Grace Street Catering, Allison Etchison Guest Models: Sonja Walters Brittney Cade Fitch Ball KC Bull Clara Yoon David Wilson Lovage Sharrock Brandon Giordano Lyssandra Guerra Camille Kohr Zoe Walker Georgia Brooks Phoenix Libsch Terri Loewenthal Monica Canilao Turf Dancers: iDummy Johnny 5 Guittard Chocolate Company Harper Paige Salon: Daniela Saavedra and Ceci Coon Heath Ceramics Immersive Liberty Farm Lightwaves Make-Up Team: Ralph R. Kasey III Alise Jacoboni Daniel Jaujou Mark di Suvero Marquee Salon: Ocean Edgar Jenny Lund Sarah Schiek Melissa Kaseman Nina Parker Oakland Marriott Oakland Museum of California, Catherine Kitz Ordinaire Pizzaiolo Public Bikes Riverdog Farm Sandra Poindexter & Friends Scribe Winery Solstice Press Sprouts Farmers Market St. George Spirits Stella Ishii and 6397 Team at The News Studio Instrument Rentals Terri Loewenthal Vans Visit Oakland
St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery Hosts a Major Art Installation Featuring over 30 Unique Seats Created by San Francisco Bay Area and International Artists for Arts Council Napa Valley’s Arts in April. This group exhibition features the work of Creative Growth artists Maureen Clay, Natascha Haehlen and Tony Pedemonte.
St. Supéry will host a stunning outdoor exhibition called Take a SEAT @ St. Supéry throughout April featuring over 30 custom, terroir- inspired chairs curated by internationally renowned artist, Topher Delaney with her partner, Calvin Chin of Delaney + Chin. Each chair offers an opportunity to experience the balance of functionality with the artist’s aesthetic vision expressed in unexpected configurations and materials.
An indoor exhibition of drawings, photographs, and paintings about each chair accompanies the exterior exhibition.“Winemaking is an art form. There is a natural affinity between crafting wine and creating art in all disciplines. St. Supéry’s long-standing focus on education with a commitment to inspire and enlighten resonates with Delaney + Chin. Artists will share their talents in an active winery setting rather than a museum setting. This exhibition rewards the curious.” – Topher Delaney, Artist and Curator
Every Sunday in April the artists will conduct inspiring workshops complemented by St. Supéry wines. Join Jessica Abbott Williams’ for a drawing workshop using grapevine branches with sumi ink and the winery’s spring flowers as sources of inspiration and meditation. Another workshop hosted by master craftsman Tom Segura teaches hand tool techniques used on his dragonfly series benches.
For more info: stsupery.com/artsinapril
Reserve a spot at a Sunday workshop at or by calling the St. Supéry estate concierge at 707.963.4507.
Connect with St. Supéry via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest with the hashtag #StSuperySEAT to follow St. Supéry’s DailySEAT, highlighting a unique chair and its story every day throughout the month. Use #ArtsinApril to connect with the overall Napa Valley event.
For inquiries, contact Misty Roudebush Cain at 707.302.3426 or misty@stsupery.com.
St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery · 8440 St. Helena Hwy. · PO Box 38 · Rutherford, CA 94573 www.stsupery.com · Phone 707.963.4507 · Fax 707.963.4526 ·Toll Free800.942.0809
Tony Pedemonte,
When sports and art collide with the impact of “March Madness,” a show of 27 artists opening March 18 at Fort Gansevoort, our games become metaphors, our heroes are transformed, even our golf bags reveal secrets. The artist’s eye finds the corruption, violence and racism behind the scoreboard, and the artist’s hand enhances the protest. Featured artists in the show are Derrick Adams, Sadie Barnette, Zoe Buckman, Michael Ray Charles, Pamela Council, Emory Douglas, Derek Fordjour, Jeffrey Gibson, David Hammons, Satch Hoyt, David Huffman, Alex Israel, Rashid Johnson, Glen Kaino, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Shaun Leonardo, Charles McGill, Gordon Parks, Paul Pfeiffer, Raymond Pettibon, Cheryl Pope, Ronny Quevedo, Robin Rhode, William Scott, Gary Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas, and Nari Ward.
Organized by Hank Willis Thomas and Adam Shopkorn.
Fort Gansevoort 5 Ninth Avenue New York, NY, 10014 (917) 639 - 3113 www.fortgansevoort.com
Available now at the Creative Growth Gallery store, Online Shop and at selected retail outlets.
Friday 13th May - private view and vernissage, 6 - 9pm Saturday 14th May - 11am - 7pm
Creative Growth is proud to be representing the following artists at this year's fair: Dwight Mackintosh Dan Miller Donald Mitchell Monica Valentine Alice Wong
Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability
For more than three decades, Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, Richmond’s NIAD Art Center, and San Francisco’s Creativity Explored have provided stimulating and supportive environments for artists with disabilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The success of these models has inspired the creation of more than forty similar centers nationwide. Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability is composed of artists from each of the three organizations and features artwork ranging from paintings, drawings, and ceramic sculpture to textile art, collage, and assemblage. Together, the artwork demonstrates the extraordinary creativity of its makers and confirms the organizations’ fundamental belief in art as an essential and enriching activity.
Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability is located in Terminal 3, Boarding Area F from March 12, 2016 to December 4, 2016. The exhibition is located post-security and is only accessible to passengers ticketed for travel through Terminal 3. There is no charge to view the exhibition.
Creative Growth Artist Dan Miller
SFO Museum was established by the Airport Commission in 1980 for the purposes of humanizing the Airport environment, providing visibility for the unique cultural life of San Francisco, and providing educational services for the traveling public. The Museum was granted initial accreditation from the American Association of Museums in 1999, reaccredited in 2005, and has the distinction of being the only accredited museum in an airport. Today, SFO Museum features approximately twenty galleries throughout the Airport terminals displaying a rotating schedule of art, history, science, and cultural exhibitions, as well as the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum, a permanent collection dedicated to the history of commercial aviation. To browse current and past exhibitions, research our collection, or for more information, please visit www.flysfo.com/museum. Follow us on www.facebook.com/SFOMuseum, www.twitter.com/SFOMuseum, or www.instagram.com/SFOMuseum.