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Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens Creative Growth: Dan Miller and Judith Scott

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents Creative Growth: Dan Miller and Judith Scott an exhibition of works by two artists who are closely associated with Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center—an institution which serves a community of mentally, developmentally, and physically disabled adult artists. On view March 24 to August 25, 2013.

Curator Matthew Higgs—a British artist, writer, and publisher—has selected a series of works by Judith Scott (1943–2005), who worked at the center between 1987 and 2005, and Dan Miller (b.1961), who has now worked at Creative Growth’s studio for more than fifteen years.

This exhibition furthers the organization’s vision to present the art produced in their studios alongside that of other contemporary artists—without any of the typical prejudices or hierarchies that serve only to reinforce the marginalization of people with disabilities.

The work of Judith Scott and Dan Miller is ultimately rooted in what might be thought of as an expanded field of “drawing.” Central to their respective approaches is an engagement with the everyday and the commonplace, evidenced in their choices of materials and subject matter. Both create multiple layers—through the use of yarn and twine in Scott’s case, language in Miller’s—which in turn create dense fields and structures of visual information that are simultaneously open and closed.

Creative Growth is part of a series of exhibitions and related programming presenting an array of approaches taken by contemporary artists who push the boundaries of drawing, the most direct and universal means of visual expression.

For more information call 203.438.4519 or visit aldrichart.org.