Ambach & Rice, a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, is hosting a summer group exhibition highlighting artists from Creativity Explored.

The exhibit features sculpture, painting and drawing by Peter Cordova, Ricardo Estella, Camille Holvoet, Andrew Li, Jose Nunez, Thomas Pringle, Evelyn Reyes, and Gerald Wiggins.

Ambach & Rice
6148 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 14, 2012
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11:00 am – 6:00 pm and by appointment

Gordon Chin and Beth Zmerzlikar join six other American artists whose work is exhibited in Yerevan 2012.

Representatives from the Department of States' office of Art in Embassies (AIE) program selected two artists from Creativity Explored to be represented in its three-year exhibition at the Yerevan Embassy in Armenia. Congratulations to Beth Zmerzlikar and Gordon Chin for this unique honor.

AIE was established by the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, and formalized as part of the Department of State by the Kennedy administration in 1963. AIE is one of the United States’ premier public-private partnership arts organizations, with over 20,000 individual and institutional participants, and a presence in some 200 venues within 189 countries worldwide. AIE furthers U.S. diplomacy through the power of the visual arts by expansive international cultural exchange initiatives.

AIE’s exhibitions allow foreign citizens, many of whom might never travel to the United States, to personally experience the depth and breadth of our artistic heritage and values.

July 3 - August 24, 2012

Venue
Pro Arts

Location
Oakland, CA

CE studio artist Kate Thompson is one of thirteen artists featured in Bay Area Currents 2012 exhibition, What we can't see but want to see is art. Renny Pritikin, Director, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis made the selections for this exhibition presented by Pro Arts and Oakland Art Gallery.

This exhibition features recent work by twelve other accomplished Bay Area artists:
Torreya Cummings
Kyle Dunn
Adrienne Heloise
Ginny Mangrum
Bridget May
Masako Miki
Tressa Pack
Ari Salomon
Sofia Sharpe
Matthew Weston Taylor
Chris Thorson
Mathew Zefeldt

About Bay Area Currents
Bay Area Currents is a critically acclaimed juried exhibition showcasing the regions' top emerging artists. Each year a small number of artists are selected by a nationally recognized curator to represent a snapshot of the energetic and risk-taking work made in the Bay Area today.

About the Juror
Renny Pritikin is the Director of the Richard L Nelson Gallery at UC Davis and Senior Adjunct Professor in the curatorial practices graduate program at the California College of the Arts. He was the founding Chief Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1992 until 2004. Prior to that he served as Executive Director of New Langton Arts in San Francisco.

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!

The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries presents FAX.

FAX is an evolving exhibition from the Independent Curators International that began in New York in 2009 and has been traveling ever since.

The SFAC Galleries invited 22 Bay Area artists to reconceive the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Each participating artist transmitted their fax-based work to the gallery via a working fax line. The results are displayed alongside works by artists, graphic designers, architects and other cultural producers from around the globe.
Curated by João Ribas

Local Artists: Kathy Aoki, Brandon Brown, John Casey, Julie Chang, Adriane Colburn, Binh Danh, Kota Ezawa, Pablo Guardiola, Taraneh Hemami, Dana Hemenway, Tony Labat, John Patrick McKenzie, Geri Montano, Kelly Ording, Joshua Singer, Casey Jex Smith, Sarah Smith, Someguy, Taravat Talepasand, Charlene Tan, Josephine Taylor, Jenifer Wofford.

Guest programmers: Anne Colvin, Colter Jacobsen, Kevin Killian and Adrienne Skye Roberts will each curate special public event at the Main Gallery during the course of the exhibition.

Opening reception:
Friday, May 4, 6pm - 8pm

SF Arts Commission Main Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister)
San Francisco, CA 94102

Main Gallery Hours:
Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm