The BIG SHOW 2006
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> Big Show Winners 2006
> Artists in the Show
> About the Big Show
> Entries/Eligibility
> Calendar and due dates
> About the Guest Juror
Award Winners
Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce the winners of the Big Show 20061st Prize ($1000):
David P. Gray, Vision in Chiapas #7
2nd Prize ($750):
Libbie Masterson and Nicholas Phillips, Icelandic Beach
3rd Prize ($500):
Mary Curry, Eve's Open Heart
More work from the three prize winners on view in the Third Floor Studios through August 25!
Alison Young of the Front Row on KUHF 88.7 FM spoke with a few of the artists in the show and the program aired on Monday July 24. Click here for audio of the interviews.
Artists in the Big Show 2006
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Artists in the show must pick up their artwork on Saturday August 26 or Sunday August 27 from Noon - 5:00pm on both days. |
ABOUT THE BIG SHOW
The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the show’s conception in 1984. The Big Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress Association, at Lawndale’s original location. The Big Show 2005, curated by Michael Olijnyk, , Curator of Exhibitions at The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), drew in over 700 submissions by 329 area artists living within 100 miles of Houston and the selected exhibition consisted of 113 art works by 74 artists.
ENTRIES/ELIGIBILITY
- There is a $15 submission fee for all non-Lawndale Art Center members
- Works in all media completed during 2004-2006 will be accepted.
- The exhibition will be juried from actual work.
- Open to all artists living within 100 miles of Houston or in the following counties: Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Tyler, Walker, Waller, Washington, Wharton.
- Artists are limited to three (3) entries.
- Only original works are eligible; works publicly exhibited in Houston, created in art classes, or copies of works will be disqualified.
- Works that are not stable enough to endure the exhibition will be disqualified and are not insurable.
- Fragile works, such as drawings or photographs, must be framed or securely mounted under glass or Plexiglas.
- All works must be ready for installation upon submission; do not submit work which is not ready to handle (i.e. wet paintings and work without hardware).
CALENDAR
July 5 and 6 from 10:00am to 5:00pm - Hand deliver work to Lawndale Art Center
July 7 and 8 - Jurying
Notification/pick-up work
Only artists who have work accepted for exhibition will be notified by telephone by July 8. If you have not been called by 6pm on July 8, your work was not accepted for exhibition and you must pick it up from the Lawndale Art Center. WORK NOT PICKED UP WILL BE DISPOSED OF IMMEDIATELY!
Sunday, July 9 - 10am to 5pm
Monday, July 10 - 10am to 5pm
Friday, July 21 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm - Opening Reception
GUEST JUROR:
Dominic Molon
Pamela Alper Associate Curator
for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Dominic Molon is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, where he has curated numerous projects including major exhibitions of Paul Pfeiffer (2003), Gillian Wearing (2002), Sharon Lockhart (2001) and Mariko Mori (1998); solo projects with Tobias Rehberger, (2000), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (1999), Steve McQueen (1996), Pipilotti Rist (1996), and Jack Pierson (1995); and the group exhibitions Trials and Terrors (2005), Strange Days (2003), and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny (2002). He has also organized group exhibitions of international artists such as Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art (with Michael Rooks) for Independent Curators International (2005), I feel mysterious today at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (2004), and HUMID at the Moore Space, Miami (2001). Molon is currently coorganizing the first major exhibition of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans with Russell Ferguson at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, for May 2006 (traveling to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) and is organizing a major group show titled “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll” for Summer 2007. He has contributed to numerous publications including Art Review, Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing; Art on Paper; Contemporary Magazine; Vitamin P: New Perspectives on Painting; Trans; and Tate: the Art Magazine, and has presented lectures and moderated panels internationally.