June 21 - August 1, 2012

Venue
Creativity Explored

Location
San Francisco, CA

When do you feel fabulous?!

Fabulous is a group exhibition that celebrates fashion, fame, identity, and queer culture with glamorous portrait paintings, wearable, multi-media hats, gender-bending drawings, and a full-size hot pink cardboard drum kit.

This artist-curated show started with Sara O'Sullivan’s love of drag queens and grew to encompass all things over-the-top, flashy, and out-of-the-box, with the curatorial contributions of artist Whitman Donaldson and two Creativity Explored staff members.

Over 15 Creativity Explored artists made work for this show, which coincides with San Francisco PRIDE week. This exhibit boldly shows how wonderfully diverse self-expression can be. Join us and dress in whatever way brings out the Fabulous-ness in you!

Mapping this Moment features three solo shows featuring Creativity Explored artist Pablo Calderon, Alberto Aguilar, and Lauren DiCioccio.

The everyday is always present. However the everyday doesn’t always have presence. Mapping this Moment brings together three artists working in varied mediums that elevate familiar and oft-used objects, emphasizing our awareness of their presence, and allowing a space for reflection.

Their works become physical “maps,” translating the expected into the unexpected through a process of displacement by use of materials, spatial orientation, and scale. By-products of mapping as practiced by the featured artists include a shared sense of playfulness, nostalgia, and appreciation for that which might otherwise be taken for granted.

Opening Reception

Friday, June 15, 2012

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Cara y Cabezas Contemporary
1714 Holmes Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
(816) 332-6239

Camille Holvoet's first solo exhibition at 18 Reasons in San Francisco.

Camille Holvoet is showing a selection of work involving savory items such as macaroni salad, bean salad and SpaghettiO's, and junk food alongside cakes and cupcakes.

Holvoet’s artwork is an expression of food, love, and memory; and sometimes, the anxiety that longing for a delicious meal can provoke. An artist of decadent and specific tastes, Holvoet presents work of unexpected color and depth of feeling which transforms the iconic foods of celebration (cake, pie, ice cream, hot dogs, French fries) into mythical objects of beauty. Her work is confessional, revealing personal desire with a risky surrender to imagination that is ultimately hopeful and always joyous.
Curated by Tia Paneet. 

18 Reasons
3674 18th Street
San Francisco, CA

May 18 - June 23, 2012

Venue
Luggage Store Gallery

Location
San Francisco, CA

The Luggage Store Gallery presents Streetopia, a large-scale group exhibition taking place in venues throughout downtown San Francisco. Curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich, Streetopia brings neighborhood residents together with at least 132 artists, performers, writers, filmmakers, activists, thinkers, and public policy makers in venues in the heart of
the city, to address the show’s themes of Utopian aspiration for the city.

CE studio artists Anthony Gomez, Michael Bernard Loggins, Yukari Sukara, Sara O'Sullivan, Marilyn Wong, and Richard Wright were among the artists included in Live Open Letter Office (LoLo), part of Streetopia, which showcased small artworks and stories created by artists working in community-based art studios around the country, and the world.

May 2 - June 12, 2012

Venue
Creativity Explored

Location
San Francisco, CA

A group exhibition of transportation-themed works powered by imagination.

The Golden Gate Bridge is admired by Creativity Explored artists just as much, if not more, than everyone else. In celebration of the 75^th Anniversary of the city's magnificent landmark, more than 20 artists have made work around the theme of transportation for our latest exhibition, Are We There Yet?

This show will get you moving by boat, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, foot, truck, car, roller-skate and even by imaginary vehicle — wait until you see these hybrids! Walter Kresnik will rev you up with his colorful drawing of a Viper GTS, a G4 Thunderbird Classic and a 65 "Bunneville"; Gordon Chin’s abstract vehicles labeled “Gas Gaszzler” and “Jolopy” will make you laugh; and Sara O’Sullivan will make you wish you rode one of her mini cardboard bicycles. Stop on by — using whichever mode of transport you prefer — and take a ride on the wild side of art. Curated by Larry Morace.