1906, Hayward, Bay Area
1999, Hayward, Bay Area
Dwight Mackintosh was seventy-two years old when he began working at Creative Growth in 1979. Over his twenty years at the organization, he developed a singular style of looped, radiating figures that blur the boundaries between internal and external body structures, inspired in part by his experiences with X-rays and a tonsillectomy at age twelve. Other subjects include buses, musical instruments, self-portraits, and an invented text that he transformed into flowing graphic imagery.
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