Creative Growth

Presentation Details
Oakland-based non-profit art center Creative Growth, which advances the inclusion of artists with disabilities, will present a solo exhibition of William Scott. Practicing with Creative Growth since 1992, the self-taught artist frequently describes himself as an architect. Scott’s paintings reimagine his home city of San Francisco as the utopian “Praise Frisco”, a compelling vision of civic design and social equity. His portraits of predominantly Black figures, from Oprah Winfrey to Barack Obama to his alter-ego, basketball star “Billy the Kid”, combine personal history with popular culture and wider questions of citizenship and community. Scott’s alternative realities are animated by a fundamental belief in the potential for positive transformation.

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.