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Special Event:
A Conversation: Tom di Maria and Jonathan Griffin
at Diane Rosenstein Gallery
Saturday, May 25, 2–3:30 pm
Diane Rosenstein Gallery
831 N. Highland Avenue
Los Angeles 90038
Diane Rosenstein Gallery presents a conversation between art critic and writer Jonathan Griffin
and Tom di Maria, the executive director of Creative Growth Art Center, on the occasion of the
exhibition, Dan Miller: Paintings, at 831 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles.
Dan Miller, a prominent ‘Outsider’ artist based in the Bay Area, is a developmentally disabled
artist (he has autism) who employs an abstracted visual language as a tool of inquiry and
expression. Our exhibition commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Creative Growth Art
Center, the Oakland non-profit where Miller is an artist-in-residence.
Held on the final day of the exhibition, this event is free, and open to the public.
Space is limited. Kindly RSVP: info@dianerosenstein.com
Jonathan Griffin is a critic and writer based in Los Angeles. Jonathan is a regular contributor to
frieze magazine, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Art Review, Apollo and others. He
has written for monographs and exhibition catalogues on artists including William N. Copley,
Andy Warhol, Derek Boshier, Armin Boehm, Liam Everett, Hernan Bas, Ragen Moss and Alice
Tippitt. He is the author of On Fire (Paper Monument, 2016). Griffin wrote about Creative
Growth: The House That Art Built, currently on view at SFMOMA, for the New York Times
earlier this month.
Tom di Maria is the executive director of the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA. Since
1999, Mr. di Maria has developed partnerships with museums, galleries and international
design companies to help bring Creative Growth’s artists with disabilities fully into the
contemporary art world. He speaks around the world about the Center’s major artists and their
relationship to both Outsider Art and contemporary culture. Previously, he served as Asst.
Director of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). He holds a BFA from
Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
An award-winning filmmaker, Tom has received short film awards from Sundance, Black Maria,
Sinking Creek, National Educational Media, and New York Experimental film festivals. In 2019,
he was awarded the Visionary Award by the American Folk Art Museum in New York.