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| May 9 – June 14, 2008 what we want is too late | Danny Kerschen, Lynne McCabe, John M. O'Quinn Gallery The Lawndale Artist Studio Program is part of Lawndale’s ongoing commitment to support the creation of contemporary art by Gulf Coast area artists. With an emphasis on emerging practices, the program provides three artists with studio space on the third floor of the Lawndale Art Center at 4912 Main Street in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. This exhibition features residents for the second year of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program, interdisciplinary artist Danny Kerschen, performance/video artist Lynne McCabe, and installation artist Teresa O'Connor. |
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Drawing in Space | Curated by J Hill Mezzanine Gallery "For artists of all backgrounds and disciplines drawing is a fundamental part of the art-making process. For some the result has finality and results in a product; The Drawing. For others it is a way to think through engineering of a more elaborate project and results in a sketch. This is not to say that picking up a pencil and putting pencil to paper is the basis for art-making across the board. Drawing is much broader than that and artists of all kinds approach it in many different ways. Rather, drawing is fundamental simply because it is an activity, a process, in which artist can think and do... simultaneously. That process or activity is the underpinning of this exhibition. That is to say that this not simply a show of drawings, but is an exhibition about drawing."-J Hill |
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3 Months and 90 Days | Catherine Colangelo
Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Catherine Colangelo works with notions of time and memory, using drawings in gouache, pencil and dye on paper, to explore the passage of time, the hit-or-miss snatches of memories that our brains recall. For her installation in the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery, Colangelo created a 4” x 6” drawing every day for 90 days. Together they become a whole that represents a visual record of the artist’s life (moods, artistic inclinations, etc.) over 90 days. Three larger works, executed over a period of one month each will also be on view. As a whole the installation records the reality of the time spent by the artist working over a period of six months. Working with gouache and pencil on paper, and sometimes integrating text, Catherine is interested in exploring the passage of time and way random bits of time stick in our minds to become our memories. |
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The Suburbs of the Emerald City | Joshua Smith Project Space The Suburbs of the Emerald City consists of handmade geodes with Monopoly houses in the formation of housing developments inside each. Geodes take millions of years to form through tremendous heat and pressure and are considered precious when found. The housing development which in many cases build up over night carry in them an immediacy of the ideal. The installation raises questions dealing with but not limited to individuality versus conformity, the ideal versus the reality, and what makes a house a home. |
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Also on view: Room 317 An exhibition by University of Houston students working with UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center artists-in-residence, the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Students are from the UH School of Art, Creative Writing Program, and Hines College of Architecture. |
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