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Archives Jan-June 05 July-Dec 05 Jan-June 06 July-Dec 06 Jan-June 07 July-Dec 07 Jan-June 08 |
Long Division
| curated by Eleanor Williams John M. O'Quinn Gallery Eleanor Williams, former Director of Lawndale Art Center (1994-2000) curates an exhibition of recent works by artists who have exhibited at Lawndale in the last 10 years. This exhibition will commence LAC’s 25th Anniversary year. |
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Betsy Odom | February 4–March 12 2005 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Betsy Odom will create an exhibition resulting in a menagerie of unnatural life. Each sculpture in the exhibition is a creature she has created using materials from everyday life. With these works, she calls into question the functionality of everyday things and the sacrifices of nature we make in order to have them. She illuminates the quirky beauty that transcends the function of these man-made objects. The Artist points out the aesthetic life of the world we have created, where we are so often preoccupied with function. |
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Kenneth Beasley | February 4–March 12 2005 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Kenneth Beasley will present drawings and wall sculptures based on the form and color in the folds of laundry. The visual density of these forms begins to imitate the weightiness of flesh and the viscosity of easy cheese. |
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Lecture | Clint Willour | February 18 2005 John M. O'Quinn Gallery
Lawndale Art Center presents Clint Willour, Executive Director and Curator of the Galveston Arts Center, in a lecture and discussion about the exhibitions that begin our 25th Anniversary year
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Tenth Annual 20th Century Modern Market John M. O'Quinn, Grace R. Cavnar, Mezzanine Gallery
The market features 15 dealers who specialize in modern design and decorative arts of the 20th Century. Furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, and fashion will be among the media featured for sale.
Tickets for the Preview Party are $25 per Lawndale Member and $35 for non-members. Tickets guarantee admission throughout the weekend. General admission for the weekend is $5.
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(..-..-..) | Mick Johnson | April 1–May 7 2005 John M. O'Quinn Gallery The work of Mick Johnson is concerned with language as an unstable entity. His installation uses words as objects that become manipulated along with the physical materials used to create it. The installation consists of an array of shelving attached to the gallery wall, with stencils of text on the surface. Large shapes will be painted onto the walls using a type of sprayer that will leave tiny particles of paint falling to the floor. These particles fall onto the shelves and leave an image of text from the stencil. |
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I could build Rome in a Day | J Hill | April 1–May 7 2005 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery J Hill creates an installation inspired by his home in Houston. Hill transforms the Small Gallery into an environment referencing the mundane activities of home-improvement as self-improvement; personifying the home as a living entity. The installation will include photography, sound and video. Hill says of his installation, “your house can become your life and both of you are alive. Just like me, my house is a living, breathing thing.” |
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Homemaid | Julia Ousley | April 1–May 7 2005 Mezzanine Gallery Julia Ousley’s work is a synthesis of her experiences in the modern and postmodern world: varied formal education, professional practices of health care and architecture, love of the human figure, and a fascination with the grid and urban life. Her installation, Homemaid is constructed of drywall, in forms that move in and out of walls that are typical of most modern residential construction. The forms are symbolically feminine and attached to or flowing out of the idea of “home.” Turned over, they become vessels, womb-like and inescapably feminine. These forms are symbolic for the artist of the paradoxical dilemma modern women experience, torn between home and family and full participation in the world at large. |
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CHAPEL CHROMATICA
| Ellen Frances Tuchman Mezzanine Gallery Ellen Frances Tuchman presents her installation CHAPEL CHROMATICA in Houston. Inspired by both the Rothko Chapel at the Menil Collection in Houston and Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze at the Vienna Secession Museum; it is a non-sectarian, purely meditative space. The walls are lined with complex, jeweled spectral patterns from her series entitled THE TWELVE MONTHS. Each unique piece functions as a window of color and light, providing emotive and symbolic access to months of the year. The panels use the language of quilting-repetition, stitched accents, beading and abstracted images that signify forms in nature. As part of the installation, a long, illuminated Lucite table set with a painted/beaded/pin-pricked vellum altar cloth and Lucite benches will provide a place for viewers to sit and dream or just to reflect. |
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The Hair Ball | River Oaks Country Club | May 7th 2005 Lawndale Art Center
Big Hair is one of Texas’ best-known natural resources. Teased, tousled, colored, crimped, pinned, poofed, bleached, bouffanted, scrunched and sprayed, sprayed, sprayed! More glamorous than your average skyscraper, Texas hair is head-and-shoulders above the rest.
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HCP's Spring Print Sale | May 15, 2005 | 12PM-5PM Rear Patio Lawndale Art Center will provide some light refreshments on our rear patio in conjunction with HCP's Spring Print Sale. This year the Print sale will be held at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
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The No Title Show | Regis Shephard John M. O’Quinn Gallery Regis Shephard’s work explores popular culture’s depiction of race, gender, and sex. Shephard uses a comic book style to showcase these exaggerations in a visual, modern way.
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Popiland | Angela Maxwell | May 13th-June 18th 2005 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Through pastel, acrylic, and oil paintings, Angela Maxwell creates representations of her home near downtown Houston. As the small, rundown neighborhood feels the effects of the new development that surrounds it, its mood shifts from loneliness to hopefulness. The artist conveys the transformation in feeling through color and lighting changes and through emphasizing the future by focusing on the horizon. Situated in the open space of the sky, the separated houses are trying to see where they belong, both within their community and within the larger community beyond the paintings. |
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Wharfinger Tales | Robbie Austin | May 13th-June 18th 2005 Mezzanine Gallery In wharfinger tales, Robbie Austin depicts wharf imagery through paintings and sculptures. For one sculpture, he uses wood salvaged from the Gulf of Mexico and binds it with rope. These works become props that a wharfinger, an owner of a wharf, would use to tell his personal stories. Austin is inspired by personal mythology, particularly surrounding his hometown. With work that is tied to his Southern heritage and is similar to craft, Austin describes himself as “the romantic front porch urban whittler.” |
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Generator | Magdalen Celestino | May 13th-June 18th 2005 Mezzanine Gallery Using rubber latex, lava lamps, Ikea furniture, cheesecloth, artificial fur, Maruchan Ramen, inflatable plastic devices, printed text, and other materials, Magdalen Celestino combines simple, useful, separate objects to generate a completely different whole. The result, a rubber figure with an animal head, becomes a symptom of, in the artist’s words, “progressive loss, of control, of self, of surroundings, in the realm of a phobic everyday.” Put together, as they are every day, the simple objects change and are no longer connected to their original use; they no longer make sense. |
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Placement & Spectacle
| May 18th 2005 | 7PM-9PM Third Floor Studios Placement and Spectacle is a group show in the third floor studios of Lawndale Art Center featuring the work of young artists from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts:
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