Cake Taxi: Camille Holvoet | Curated by Lindsey White & Jordan Stein

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Guest curators Jordan Stein and Lindsey White share a slice of Creativity Explored artist Camille Holvoet’s cake and dessert-themed artwork.

Creativity Explored presents<h1>Cake Taxi</h1><h2>Selected Dessert Works by Camille Holvoet</h2><h3>Curated by Lindsey White &amp; Jordan Stein</h3>On view April 28 - June 12, 2021, at the CE gallery and <a href="https://www.artsy.net/creativity-explored" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">online on Artsy </a>While this past year hasn't given us much to celebrate, <a href="https://www.creativityexplored.org/artists/camille-holvoet" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Camille Holvoet</a>—a <a href="https://www.creativityexplored.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Creativity Explored</a> artist since 2001—continues to craft dizzying beautiful cakes on paper from her home in San Francisco. And now that we can finally smell an end in sight, it's a rich occasion to admire her sweetly complex creations, which often share the frame with written enthusiasms, frustrations, and memories, and even shoes, eyeballs, and flames. If we can’t gather everybody together just yet, at least we can get all the cakes in the same room.<aside>Image above: Untitled (Taxi Cake with Mr. Holvoet and Camille) by Camille Holvoet, ca. 2009-12, oil pastel on mat board, 17.25 x 16 inches</aside><aside></aside><h2>CURATOR TALK: DONOR EVENT </h2>Tuesday, May 4 from 6:00 - 7:00PM (PT) on ZoomRegister via Eventbrite above using your VIP Donor Code or become a donor to join the discussion.Every cake has a story to tell, and according to Camille Holvoet, some of them even take taxi rides.Join us for a special conversation to celebrate Cake Taxi, the latest exhibition on view at Creativity Explored, featuring dozens of Camille Holvoet’s cake-themed artworks.Guest curators Lindsey White and Jordan Stein will share a slice of their career in the alternative arts arena, why they were instantly attracted to Holvoet’s drawings, and what drove them to offer to deliver creative cakes to art patrons.Moderated by CE Curator and Exhibition Coordinator Cléa Massiani, this is one donor-exclusive event you don’t want to miss. <h2>About Camille Holvoet</h2>Camille Holvoet's artwork is deceptively sweet. Her practice tends to draw on remembrances of life's anxieties and forbidden desires. Holvoet’s process is an endless discovery, in which – through repeatedly drawing in oil pastel her sacred objects: desserts, Ferris wheels, and crossed eyes – the pressures of the past are relieved by the joy of the creative process. When Holvoet combines text with imagery, the resonance between the two is powerful as it is beautiful. Vibrant renderings of cakes and pies are overwritten with recollections of nightmares, fears, frustrated sexual feelings, and religious doubt. In the studio Holvoet offers gems of wisdom, “We like to act silly sometimes in order to be serious every day".”Read more about Holvoet in Priscilla Franks' Huff Post piece, "A 63-Year-Old Artist Explains How Art Can Cure Creative Hunger at Any Age," and in Alissa Greenberg's "The Art of the Bittersweet" in BrutForce.<h2>About Jordan Stein and Lindsey White</h2>Jordan Stein is a curator based in San Francisco and author of the forthcoming Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada and Other Pieces (Soberscove Press, 2021). He operates the exhibition space Cushion Works, serves as Public Programs Curator at KADIST, and has independently organized exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum &amp; Pacific Film Archive; Artists Space (New York); Yale Union (Portland, OR); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; San Francisco City Hall; The Glass House (New Canaan, CT); Matthew Marks Gallery (New York); Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco); and more. He has taught at Williams College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and California College of the Arts. Press from recent projects has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, KQED, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Everglades City Mullet Rapper.Lindsey White is an artist and educator based in San Francisco. She has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Arts Commission; Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen); Bolinas Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco); ACME (Los Angeles); White Columns (New York); Locust Projects (Miami); San Francisco International Airport Museum; Museum Bärengasse (Zurich); and more. White received SFMOMA's 2017 SECA Award and has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito) and Kala Art Institute (Berkeley). White is an Assistant Professor and Photography Department Chair at the San Francisco Art Institute.In 2019, Stein and White curated Brian Belott’s RHODASCOPE: Scribbles, Smears, and the Universal Language of Children According to Rhoda Kellogg at San Francisco City Hall. Alongside David Kasprzak, they co-founded the interdisciplinary collaborative Will Brown, which realized over three dozen exhibitions and programs in their Mission District storefront from 2012–2015 before working with other organizations. Will Brown is the author of Bruce Conner: Brass Handles (J&L Books, 2016).<a href="https://www.jordanstein.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">jordanstein.com</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cushion_works_and_friends" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@cushion_works_and_friends</a><a href="https://www.lindseywhiteprojects.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">lindseywhiteprojects.net</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ldubbles" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@ldubbles</a><h2>About Creativity Explored</h2>Creativity Explored is a studio-based collective in San Francisco that partners with people with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us. Founded in 1983 by a psychologist and an artist, CE has facilitated the careers of hundreds of disabled artists and serves as a model in the field of art and disability worldwide. Creativity Explored now serves 130 artists with developmental disabilities offering art supplies, training, exhibition and sales opportunities in traditional and digital media. CE artists have seen their work exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs in over 14 countries and have earned over $2 million from their art. Our life-changing programs continue to open doors of inclusion to center the personhood and creative vision of people with developmental disabilities. Most importantly, Creativity Explored is a source of community, empowerment and dignity.3245 16th Street | San Francisco, CA 94103<a href="https://www.creativityexplored.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">creativityexplored.org</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creativityexplored" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@creativityexplored</a> | <a href="https://mailchi.mp/creativityexplored.org/subscribe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Subscribe to the CE newsletter</a><a href="https://www.artsy.net/creativity-explored" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">See all exhibitions on the CE Artsy page</a>All artwork, 2000-21 © Creativity Explored Licensing, LLC

<aside>Cake on Fire by Camille Holvoet, 2012, pastel on matboard, 10 x 16 inches</aside>

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