Camille Holvoet

Artworks 

 

Medication, 2020. Pen and colored marker on paper. Courtesy of Creativity Explored.

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Other artworks in the exhibition

Anti, 2020. Pen and colored marker on paper. Courtesy of Creativity Explored.

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Medication, 2020. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of Creativity Explored.

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Come Alive, Come Alive, your in the pepsi Genershion, 2020 . Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of Creativity Explored.

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About the Artist

Over her career, Camille Holvoet has developed a keen local fan base for her distinctive and highly colorful artworks. The descriptive text in many of her pieces is often confessional and complicates the apparent sweetness of her color palette and images. She will often focus on the many temptations of life: all kinds of sumptuous cake and the Ferris wheel are common motifs in her work. Many of her works also convey her ongoing relationship with medication and its function in her life. 

Camille Holvoet was born in San Francisco in 1952 and has been an artist at Creativity Explored since 2001. 

Creativity Explored is a studio-based collective in San Francisco partnering with developmentally disabled artists to celebrate and nurture our creativity. Sparked by the nationwide deinstitutionalization of disabled people, Florence and Elias Katz, an artist, and a psychologist, founded three Bay Area non-profit art studios―Creative Growth in 1974, NIAD in 1982 (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development), and Creativity Explored in 1983. These programs often collaborate and share resources, and serve as a model for the field of art and disability worldwide.