Creative Growth

About the Gallery
Creative Growth is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California that advances the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities in contemporary art and strengthens community by providing a supportive studio environment and gallery representation.

About the presentation
Creative Growth, an Oakland-based non-profit art center which advances the inclusion of artists with disabilities, will present a selection of works by Zina Hall and Ron Veasey. Both artists’ distinctive approaches to portraiture are informed by pop-culture references across fashion and music. Hall joined Creative Growth in 2006 as an adept quilter, translating those skills into detailed embroideries based on images of African American music icons such as Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and The Temptations, to name a few. Veasey, an early participant in Creative Growth’s studio program from 1981, draws from fashion photography as he pursues a central interest in the human form as a vehicle for color and line.