MAY 8 - JUNE 27 2026
MEMBER PREVIEW: Friday, may 8, 5-6 PM
PUBLIC OPENING: Friday, May 8, 6-8 PM
Home Show is Creative Growth's signature exhibition of artistic home decor. Custom lamps, looped rugs, wall-art turned-lighting, fiber-wrapped coffee tables, wall weavings, and ceramic dishware are a sample of what you’ll find. This is where decorative art meets everyday living. The exhibition features solo installations by Juan Aguilera and Lauren Dare.
artist led exhibition tour
TOUR DATE: Saturday, Date TBD
For every exhibition, the gallery will host a tactile and descriptive guided experience led by a featured artist. Tour docents provide visual descriptions and support guided art-feeling.
The tours are small, welcoming groups, and are designed to support multiple sensory and learning styles.
Contact emma@creativegrowth.org to RSVP and for questions.
Meet the Artists Featured in Our Window Installations
Juan aguilera
Born 1966, Guanajuato, Mexico
Practiced at Creative Growth since 1998
Juan Aguilera emigrated to the United States from Mexico at the age of eight. Often paying homage to his homeland, Aguilera fuses female imagery with flowering plants and other organic content - a gesture that the artist describes as a symbolic nod to the matriarch. He plays out this devotion to female forms and their undergarments in a variety of media - painting, printmaking, ceramic, and wood. His interest in the subject isn’t sensational. Rather, the rendered garments become a profound and multifaceted vessel for feminine energy. Something of an alchemist, Aguilera’s most recent practice combines his established drawing and painting style with assemblage by pouring thick layers of gel medium onto pages laden with real bras and panties.
LAUREN DARE
Born October 21, 1977, Oakland, California
Has practiced at Creative Growth since 2011
Lauren Dare’s multi-layered abstract drawings are completed with a characteristically active and gestural process. Filling the page to the edge with high viscosity ink, Dare layers dense, sweeping collections of lines that exercise the full range of motion in her wrist and arm. Dare describes these frond-like forms as “trees,” and sometimes interrupts them with clusters of circles, achieved in the same vibrational hand. Simultaneously organized and frenetic, her line work flows and crashes like waves, creating an energetic visual texture. Whether she’s working in bright color or monochrome, Dare has a captivatingly sophisticated sense of depth and composition.