SEPTEMBER 18 - NOVEMBER 21 2026 

MEMBER PREVIEW: 

Friday, September 18, 5-6 PM

PUBLIC OPENING: 

Friday, September 18, 6-8 PM

Stereo Dynamic is the ultimate visual mixtape! This group exhibition explores what happens when music fuels the making, featuring handcrafted instruments, music videos, customized vinyls, and hand-stitched portraits of musical legends. Join us to celebrate the tracks, icons, and beats that inspire the art.

SEPTEMBer 26 2026

2:30-3:30 pm

📍Location: Creative Growth Art Center, 355 24th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612

Featured artist James Freid and Creative Growth staff will take you on an insider tour of our latest exhibition. This event is designed for everyone who wants to learn more about the artwork, with a focus on accessible experiences for Blind and low-vision guests. This includes tactile experiences and visual descriptions of selected artworks.

RSVP via email to emma@creativegrowth.org

Aurie Ramirez

Born 1962, Sangley Point, Philippines
Practiced at Creative Growth since 1983

Aurie Ramirez’s sophisticated and delicately rendered watercolor and ink compositions create a fantasy world of 18th century dandyism, neo-Victorian decorum, psychedelia, glam rock sex, and anthropomorphic food. With imagery ranging the full spectrum from saccharine landscapes with smiling suns to punk fetishism and hardcore erotica, Ramirez explores sexuality, fashion, violence, and forbidden foods. Often depicting groups of women in KISS garb (Ramirez’s favorite band and most profound visual touchstone), Ramirez presents these women and their ephemera in endless iterations like paper dolls. In another series, she explores her Filipino heritage and childhood memories by reimagining traditional wardrobe on her red and green pinstriped characters. Ramirez is obsessive in her production, filling sketchbooks with dozens of compositions in a single day.

Ramirez’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally, including White Columns and Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York; Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles; ABCD, Paris; Collection de l’Art Brut, Switzerland; and MADmusée, Belgium.