The Big Show | 2008
Opening Reception Friday, July 11, 2008
6:30-8:30 pm

About the Big Show  |  About the Guest Juror    |  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.

2008 Exhibiting artists are:

John Adelman, Isela Aguirre, Dran Alessi, Ron Arena, Steven Baptiste, Johann J. Boudreaux, James Burns, Joyce Cail, Christopher Cascio, Douglas Cason, Peter Chok, Christopher Comperry, Shannon Crider, Frederique de Montblanc, Jeremy DePrez, Ben Tecumseh DeSoto, Leah DeVun, Daniel Fabian, Garland Fielder, Haden Garrett, Raul Gonzalez, Tracy Jayne Goosen, David Hardaker, Dan Havel, Daniel Heimbinder, April Hernandez, L. A. Holloman, Renate Jones, Erin Joyce, Daniel Kayne, Sara Kellner, Hugh Dodd McDonnold, Linda Moore, Kia Neill, Alex Nguyen, Pam R Olson, Gay Paratore, Ryan Perry, Ole Petersen, Brian Piana, John Paul Plauché, Forrest Prince, Anne J. Regan, Allan Rodewald, Rodrigo Romero Roit, John Runnels, Cameron Sands, Louise Schlachter, Carol Ellen Scott, Gregory Scott, Robert Sennhauser, Herbert Shapiro, John Slaby, Emily Sloan, Gabriella O. Solis, Sarah Sudhoff, Kamila Szczesna, Patrick Winkler, Henry Yau, Paul Zeigler

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Guest Juror | Aram Moshayedi, Curator, LA><ART

Aram Moshayedi is curator at LA><ART in Los Angeles. He is the recent curator of Vishal Jugdeo: Surplus Room. Forthcoming exhibitions include Kamrooz Aram: An Exotic Jubilee,  as well as additional projects with artists Piero Golia and William Leavitt.  In the spring of 2008, Moshayedi was the curator of The Silence of Infinite Space at the Glendale College Art Gallery. Moshayedi has also published widely in the field of contemporary art, with recent contributions appearing in Afterall Online, Art Lies, Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture, and Art Papers, for which he is a regular contributor.  Forthcoming publications include "From Intervention to Extraction,” in the monographic catalogue Ruben Ochoa: Extracted.  In the fall of 2008, he will edit an issue of the journal Art Lies. He is currently a doctoral student in the department of art history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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