The Big Show | 2007
Opening Reception Friday July 13, 2007
6:30-8:30 pm

About the Big Show  |  Entries and Eligiability  |  Calendar and Dates About the Guest Juror  |  Download the Entry Form  |  Volunteer

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 2007 drew in 1,143 artwork submissions from 458 Houston area artists. The selected show - curated by Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - consists of 117 works from 86 Houston Artists.

Exhibiting artists are:

Daniel Adame, John Adelman, Rodrigo Aguilera, Isela Aguirre, Joe C. Aker, Helen Antebi, Andis Applewhite, Miguel Angel Avila, Heather Bause, Chuy Benitez, Olivier (Bexar), Constance Braden, Scot Brooks, Shawn Callahan, Gregory M. Carter, Jeanne Cassanova, Peter Chok, Kay Cox, Julie DeVries, Kurt Dryhaug, Xenia Fedorchenko, Garland Fielder, Sarah Nix Ginn, James A. Glassman, David Green, Chris Dethloff Greene, Bret Harmeyer, Sue Burke Harrington, April Hernandez, Rachel Hillery, Robert Hodge, Keith J.R. Hollingsworth, L A Holloman, JOhn HOvig, Allison Hunter, Maria Christina Jadick, Sharon Joines, Jacob Jones, Renate Jones, Matthew Juarez, Mindy Kober, Joan Laughlin, Aesha Lee, J. Long, Libbie Masterson, Larry McEntire, Edgar Meza, Pattii Montgomery, Devon Moore, Teresa Munisteri, Gabriella Nissen, Rebecca Novak, Jeremiah John O’ Connor, Rosane Volchan O’ Conor, Christy Ortiz, Patrick Palmer, Linda Peyton Huff, Ebony Porter, Forrest Prince, Lisa Qualls, Roberto J. Ramirez, R. Rey, Rolando Reyna, Sergio Santos, Jenny Schlief, Carol Scott, Robert Sennhauser, Herbert Shapiro, John Slaby, Emily Sloan, Dustin Ryan Smith, Matthew Sullivan, Charles Tatum II, Shane Tolbert, Patrick Turk, Kelly Ulcak, Emily Umnus-Patrick, Tala Vahabzadeh, Camargo Valentino, Kelli Vance, Mark Wade, Lillian Warren, David Wilhelm, Martin Wnuk, June Woest and Paul S. Ziegler.

Congratulations to the prize winners:

1st Place: April Hernandez

2nd Place: Aesha Lee

3rd Place: Matthew Sullivan

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Entries and Eligiability | 2007

Click here to download the Entry Form (pdf, 2 pages, 109kb)

• There is a $30 submission fee for all non-Lawndale Art Center members. Members receive $5 off the cost of entry.
• Works in all media completed during 2005-2007 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).

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Calendar and Important Dates| 2007

Submissions
Hand deliver work to Lawndale Art Center
June 27 and 28, 2007 - from 10 am to 5 pm

June 29 and 30 - Jurying. Confidential.

Notification/pick-up work
Only artists who have work accepted for exhibition will be notified by telephone by June 30. If you have not been called by 6pm on June 30, 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!

Pick Up Dates
Sunday, July 1 - 10am to 5pm
Monday, July 2 - 10am to 5pm

Friday, July 13 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm - Opening Reception

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Guest Juror | Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, LACMA

Rita Gonzalez is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. Her curatorial collaboration with filmmaker Jesse Lerner, Mexperimental Cinema, was the first survey of experimental and avant-garde media art from Mexico and traveled to the Pacific Film Archives; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Harvard Film Archives; the Guggenheim Museums (New York and Bilbao), and film festivals internationally. From 1997-1999, she was the Lila Wallace Curatorial Intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. At MCA San Diego, she worked on numerous exhibitions, lectures & film programs, as well as serving as curatorial coordinator for William Kentridge: Weighing and Wanting. Together with film scholar Norma Iglesias, she curated a film and video series for inSITE 2000.

Gonzalez has written for media and art journals including Wide Angle, Poliester, COIL, Signs, and RIM. Recent essays appear in Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (Duke University Press) and Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from 90s to Now (JRP|Ringier Zurich).

She is finalizing her doctoral dissertation in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. Her dissertation examines the representation of new topographies in post-Chicano visual and media art.

Currently, Gonzalez is Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With Howard Fox and Chon Noriega, Gonzalez will curate Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, an exhibition on the conceptual and interventionist works by Chicano artists that have been marginalized by both Chicano art and art history, as well as an emerging generation inspired by this overlooked work and energized by a complex of influences ranging from international avant-gardes to urban subcultures.

Last year, Gonzalez co-curated the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. She also organized Arturo Romo: Vast Arcade Los Angeles at LACMA. She was the 05/06 recipient of the American Center Foundation Fund for Arts Research.

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