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Creativity Explored

August 8 - October 2, 2013

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3245 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Sideshow "Sideshow" (diorama detail) by Gordon Shepard © 2004 Creativity Explored. Mixed media, 30" x 73.5" x 31.5"
Creativity Explored examines the overlapping relationships between people with disabilities and the performers who were on display in the circus sideshows of yesteryear, in a new exhibition aptly entitled Sideshow, curated by Studio Manager and Visual Arts Instructor E. Francis Kohler. Using the visual trappings of historical sideshows, artists promote their own individual talents and unique qualities, versus the dis-empowering portrayals of “human oddities” from days gone by in Creativity Explored’s fifth exhibition of its 30th anniversary year. Artworks range from iconic renditions of circus promotional posters and typical sideshow scenes, to modern “pitch cards,” or works touting an individual’s sensational attributes. Sideshow also features several works from deceased Creativity Explored artist Gordon Shepard, for whom the show is also a tribute. In addition to producing a variety of circus-themed paintings, sketches and sculptures, Gordon created a 1/12-scale diorama of a sideshow, featuring among other attractions a two-headed lady, half-man/half woman, frog lady, and the more unusual snake man and tree man. The diorama appears in a documentary on Gordon’s life, CLOWN, which will be one of the films shown at Creativity Explored Film Night at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, scheduled for Wednesday, September 11, 2013. Creativity Explored 3245 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
Sideshow "New Chin Family" by Gordon Chin © 2013 Creativity Explored. Mixed media on paper, 22.25" x 16"
Sideshow "Elephant Men" by Paul Pulizzano © 2012 Creativity Explored. Acrylic on canvas board, 22" x 28"
Sideshow "Ms. Lucinda and Her Den of Alligators" by Lucinda Addison © 2013 Creativity Explored. Colored pencil on paper, 18" x 24"