Creative Growth - Aurie Ramirez Pin Stripe Soup
Artist Aurie Ramirez’s watercolor and ink compositions are often influenced by her love of The Addams Family and the rock band Kiss. Fragments of 18th century dandyism, neo-Victorian decorum, psychedelia, Venetian masquerade, Glam Rock sex and Punk fetishism are expressed in her work which has been shown at White Columns and Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York, the Jack Hanley Gallery in Los Angeles, ABCD in Paris, and Collection l’Art Brut in Lausanne.
Creative Growth - The Man Who Came Home by Gregory Stoper
Gregory Stoper is an artist at Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, the world’s first non-profit art studio for adults with developmental disabilities.
The Creative Growth series was created by Cheryl Dunn and brought to you in conjunction with All Day Every Day and i am OTHER. For more information about Creative Growth visit: http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - Cat and Chicken by William Tyler
William Tyler is one of the longest attending artists at the Creative Growth Art Center. He is a productive, dedicated artist whose meticulous drawings reflect an intricate narrative using images from both his personal experience, cultural icons, and his perspective on the world at large to create a symbolic place where order reigns over emotion.
Created by Cheryl Dunn and brought to you in conjunction with All Day Everyday and i am OTHER. For more information about Creative Growth visit: http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - The Cruise Ship by William Tyler
William Tyler is one of the longest attending artists at the Creative Growth Art Center. He is a productive, dedicated artist whose meticulous drawings reflect an intricate narrative using images from both his personal experience, cultural icons, and his perspective on the world at large to create a symbolic place where order reigns over emotion.
For more information about Creative Growth visit: http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - William Tyler - TV is Make Believe
William Tyler is one of the longest attending and most dedicated artists at the Creative Growth Art Center. His meticulous drawings reflect an intricate narrative that weaves together images from his personal experience, cultural icons, and his perspective on the world at large. His drawings create a symbolic place where order reigns over emotion.
For more information about Creative Growth visit http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - The Makeup Counter by Gail Lewis
Gail Lewis is an artist at Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, the world’s first non-profit art studio for adults with developmental disabilities.
The Creative Growth series was created by Cheryl Dunn and brought to you in conjunction with All Day Every Day and i am OTHER. For more information about Creative Growth visit: http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - To Be The Best Oh Yeah
Meet the artists of Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. Filmmaker Cheryl Dunn goes behind the scenes to introduce us to some of the personalities behind this incredible collective. Get inspired by these remarkable artists with developmental disabilities who have been building a community here since it’s establishment in 1974.
For more information about Creative Growth visit: http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - Ced’s Bed by Cedric Johnson
Artist Cedric Johnson is known for his abstract, colorful, cubist styles of drawn portraiture. He is equally accomplished in three-dimensional works, executed in clay and in textiles. Cedric is an artist at Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, the world’s first non-profit art studio for adults with developmental disabilities.
Created by Cheryl Dunn and brought to you in conjunction with All Day Every Day and i am OTHER. For more information about Creative Growth visit: http://creativegrowth.org
Creative Growth - Gerone Spruill: Chocolate City
Creative Growth artist Gerone Spruill is an aspiring DJ with an encyclopedic music collection. His street-smart graphic sensibility illuminates his work. His prismacolor and ink drawings take the form of extensive, if not epic comic book narratives that chronicle the misadventures of his characters, memorably coifed and infinitely cool, as they cruise Chocolate City in pursuit of rap stardom and other kinds of “satisfaction.” Gerone’s work occupies a never-never land of eternal youthful optimism, where fantasy and desire are, with a little perseverance, ultimately within reach.
Creative Growth - Art Happens Here
The Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California has been a home for artists with developmental disabilities since 1974. Filmmaker Cheryl Dunn has been documenting and working with the artists for seven years to create this beautiful series about the center. The artists’ work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world and i am OTHER is proud to present these films in hopes that they will shed light on this important institution.
Created by Cheryl Dunn and brought to you in conjunction with All Day Everyday and i am OTHER. For more information about Creative Growth visit http://creativegrowth.org
