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INsects

Gallery Exhibition

Artists with Developmental Disabilities at San Francisco’s Creativity Explored Get Buzzed with a New Sculptural Exhibition that Celebrates the Weird and Wild Shapes and Colors of Bugs

June 26 – August 6, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Creativity Explored may be crawling with bugs this summer but you can leave the Raid at home. The colorful critters in the gallery are part of a new sculptural exhibition entitled “INsects” that celebrates the naturally weird and wild world of bugs. The show opens with a reception featuring live music on Thursday, June 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm and continues through August 6. All artwork may be purchased at the Creativity Explored Gallery, open Monday through Friday, 10:00 am. to 3:00 pm, Thursday until 7:00 pm, and Saturday from 1:00 to 6:00 pm.

Artist Nubia Ortega’s over-sized swarm of painted wood bees was inspired by a specific memory of her childhood in El Salvador. “I always saw bees flying around the plants and flowers,” she says. “I remember an old mango lying on the ground and when I got near it, so many bees flew up and away.”

Also driven by memories of home, artist Abel Pineda contributes several painted Monarch butterflies that begin their annual migration in his home country of Mexico. Pineda’s work has always been filled with the flora and fauna of home, says curator and Creativity Explored instructor Gloria Morales. “In Latin America where I also grew up, children in rural areas catch insects to play with them,” she says. “We have a different relationship with them there. I think that is why insects show up in the artwork of so many of our Latino artists. They appreciate them.”

The exhibition also features a pesky trail of giant multi-colored, papier mache ants, a wall full of wacky beetles, a creative rendition of the Aesop fable of the grasshopper and the ant as well as a whole menagerie of imaginative dragonflies, wasps, locusts and more.

INsects

GROUP EXHIBITION AND OPENING: a new sculptural exhibition that celebrates the weird and wild shapes and colors of bugs

When

• Opening Reception – Thursday, June 26, 2008 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm
• Exhibit Dates and Times – June 26 through August 6, 2008, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Thursday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, and Saturday from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Where

Creativity Explored Gallery, 3245 Sixteenth St. at Guerrero, San Francisco

Information

(415) 863-2108
www.creativityexplored.org

Cost

FREE

Creativity Explored is a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art.

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# Posted on May 11, 2008