Joyeuses Fêtes!

Avant notre fermeture annuelle pour les fêtes de fin d'année, nous souhaiterions vous inviter à boire un verre le dimanche 20 Décembre entre 14h et 17h! Ce sera une bonne occasion de venir dénicher vos derniers cadeaux de Noël ou de récupérer vos achats éffectués durant l'expo... La galerie sera fermée du 20 Décembre au début du mois de janvier.

Happy Holidays!

Before we close for the holidays, we would like to invite you to join us for a drink this Sunday, December 20th from 2 pm- 5 pm! It will be a great opportunity to do some last minute Christmas shopping as well as pick up any artwork you might have purchased during the show. The gallery will be closed from December 20th to the beginning of January.

Erin Punzel, 8 in x 6 in, 2009CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS

19 nov – 30 dec 2009 Opening: Thursday 19 nov 18h-21h

Contact : Tom di Maria, Director tom@creativegrowth.org

Gaëla Fernández, Gallery Manager gaela@galerieimpaire.fr

Christmas in California means something other than snowballs, Christmas trees and dark winter nights. California has an alternative reality, and Creative Growth Art Center’s artists with disabilities personify this spirit. Working alongside 140 other artists in our California workshop, they redefine the holiday traditions of home and family to include a community wide celebration of artistic achievement, personal growth and celebration. Creative Growth Art Center, located in Oakland, California, is the world’s oldest and largest center for artists with disabilities. The Center has a thirty-five year holiday tradition of opening our studio and gallery to a wide and appreciative California audience to view and purchase work by our artists. This year, we bring a small portion of our California Christmas tradition to Paris. California Christmas features new paintings, drawings and prints by Creative Growth artists Kim Clark, Luis Aguilera, Barbara Rice, Erin Punzel, Aurie Ramirez, Merrit Wallace, Stanley Rexwinkle and seven others. Many of these artists will have their work exhibited in Paris for the very first time. The exhibition will also include recent work from our ceramic studio and fiber arts department – objects designed to serve as perfect holiday gifts. The gallery will also feature a bag shop featuring products from our exclusive Creative Growth for Marc Jacobs partnership. It’s a perfect way to begin your holiday season, and proceeds from exhibition sales directly benefit Creative Growth Art Center’s artists and programs.

Galerie Impaire | +33-(0)1-42-49-07-58 |
47 rue de Lancry, Paris 75010
mercredi - samedi : 11h-19h | dimanche : 12h-17h

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Read the Art in America review of our current show,
"Entres les Lignes"

Entre les Lignes: Paintings & Drawings by Naomie Kremer and Dan Miller
Curated by Tom di Maria

Exhibition runs: October 8, 2009 – November 15, 2009
Opening Reception: October 8th, 6:00-9:00pm
Where: Galerie Impaire, 47 rue de Lancry, Paris 75010
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11:00-7:00pm;
Sunday, Noon-5:00pm
Gallery contact: Gaela Fernandez, Gallery Manager,
+33 (01) 42 49 07 58

Naomie Kremer, Orangerie, 27” x 46,” oil on linen, 2009

Dan Miller, Untitled, 22” x 30,” ink & acrylic on paper, 2007

Galerie Impaire, a project of Creative Growth Art Center, the world’s oldest and largest art center for adults with disabilities, is thrilled to present Entre les Lignes featuring the work of Naomie Kremer and Dan Miller.

Entre les Lignes is an invitation to a personal experience and conversation with the work of Oakland-based artists Naomie Kremer and Dan Miller. This exhibit marks an important occasion for Galerie Impaire with its mission to present self-taught and art brut artists along side contemporary trained artists. The exhibition encourages an examination of the similarities of style and process in artists with vastly different relationships to the world and to art making.

Naomie Kremer is a mid-career, contemporary trained artist with studios in both Oakland and Paris. Dan Miller is an artist with disabilities who began making art at Creative Growth Art Center. Kremer and Miller both paint and draw abstractly, with marks that are often language based, using ideas of layering and accumulation in an obsessive process that yields lush surfaces, complex and intriguing patterns and sophisticated color relationships. Deeply grounded in drawing, Kremer and Miller’s motifs carry over into painting, more or less overtly.

In our gallery project space, Kremer presents four hybrid works and an 8½ minute video loop created specifically in response to Dan Miller’s process and achievement.

Artist Bios
Based in Oakland, California and Paris, France, Kremer is represented by: Modernism Inc., San Francisco; Hosfelt Gallery, New York; and David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado. Her work has been shown widely and is collected across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit her website for more information: www.naomiekremer.com.

Dan Miller has made artwork in the Creative Growth studio in Oakland for more than ten years. Diagnosed with autism and possessing minimal verbal communication skills, Miller continues to develop his work at Creative Growth. His art has been shown widely across the United States and Europe. In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art, New York acquired four of Miller’s drawings for its permanent collection.

About Galerie Impaire
Galerie Impaire is a project of the Oakland, California based, Creative Growth Art Center. It opened in June 2008 to extend opportunities offered in Oakland and to exhibit work of artists with disabilities, self-taught artists and other contemporary artists from around the world.

Contact Information:

Galerie Impaire
Gaela Fernandez, Gallery Manager
+33 (01) 42 49 07 58

47 rue de Lancry
Paris, France, 75010
Metro: Jacques Bonsergent
Du mercredi au samedi: 11h-19h
Dimanche: 12h-17h

Exhibition Curator, Tom di Maria and Naomie Kremer are available for press interviews by appointment. Contact: tom@creativegrowth.org or 510.836.2340 ext. 13