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Opening Reception | Friday, Jan 26 | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Members-Only Artist Talk at 6:00PM
Waiting to Explode | Richie Budd & Jimmy Kuehnle
Jan 26 - March 03
John M. O'Quinn Gallery
Richie Budd
"Richie Budd’s multi-media sculptural objects and installations are impossibly self-contained microenvironments that are hinged together by his skillful use of the glue gun and/or his keen sense of balance and placement.
The artist works with the surplus of our materially dependent commerce society reconstituting ephemera into inventive systems. These precarious and multi-faceted systems are based on sensory modalities in which the artist incorporates specific objects-aromatherapy, stereos, foodstuffs, smoke machines-to invoke all of the senses underscoring the ‘nature’ of our lived experience. These compressed, quasi living and breathing systems function on multiple levels both inert and active and seek to cause a dynamic experience for the viewer and in turn a structure of reference."
Jimmy Kuehnle received a BFA in Sculpture from Truman State University, Kirksville, MO in 2001; and his MFA in Sculpture/Video/Performance from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2006. Solo exhibitions in 2006 include “Tell Me a Story”, Bluestar Contemporary Art Center, Gallery 4, San Antonio, Texas (2006); “3D on Swiss”, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas; “Don’t Just Stand There”, Gallery 76, Wenatchee Valley College, Washington; and “Nacho Volcano”, Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas.
Jimmy Kuehnle
Known for public bicycle performance rides focusing on interacting with the public and presenting absurd situations, San Antonio artist Jimmy Kuehnle will perform Kiss the Sky at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston. For Kiss the Sky, Kuehnle will don an inflatable suit made of 104 inverted cones of rip-stop nylon. (pictured below) Using a combination of batteries and long extension cords to power fans, he will make a bounding, bouncing tour of the arts district beginning at Lawndale.
Inside Kuehnle will present “binary drawings” of the information transmitted over the web to display the logos on various corporate websites, including Disney, Google, and Microsoft. The drawings complete with corrected human error contain thousands of ones and zeros. Also on display will be a video demonstrating how to count to 1023 on your hands, in binary.
Richie Budd received his BFA, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas in 2000 and his MFA, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include “What’s Going On Behind What’s Going On” at Tortilleria La Popular, San Antonio, Texas (2006); and “Risk” in Gallery 4 of Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas (2005). Selected group shows include “Insanely Sick”, i2i Gallery, San Antonio, Texas (2006); and “Sculpture Now” in the Williams Tower, Houston Texas, curator: Sally Sprout (2006). In 2006, Budd received a Travel Grant from Artpace (San Antonio, TX); and both a “Work Exchange Aid Grant” and an “Artist Grant” from the Vermont Studio Center, (Johnson, VT).
www.jimmykuehnle.com
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Under Covers: (Granny's Flower Patch) | Benjamin Entner
Jan 26 - March 03
Grace R Cavnar Gallery
Wrestling with his need to sew, Benjamin Entner creates a quilted interactive installation out of the manly Tyvek Non Woven Industrial Protective Cloth. Spanning the entire Grace R. Cavnar Gallery this
Tyvek quilt is suspended just below eye level forcing viewers to hunch underneath it as they traverse the gallery. The top and the bottom of the piece each have their own aesthetic. The bottom is made up of a kaleidoscope of color based of Tyvek’s logoing and the top shows a
field of geometric flowers made from the quilt’s base pattern:
Granny’s Flower Patch.
Benjamin Entner is a native of Western New York and recently graduated from Syracuse University with his Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture. His work has shown nationally and internationally; most recently at Syracuse’s Everson Museum, and Minneapolis’ Alfie’s Art Garage. He is a Taurus and enjoys long walks with his dog, Taz.
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Forest Interrupted | Anderson Wrangle
Jan 26 - March 03
Mezzanine Gallery
Forest Interrupted revolves around my thinking about the landscape image, the picturesque form, and the historical arc of landscape image making. Works in the show include large-scale color panoramas, video projection, 3d (anaglyph) images, and installation pieces. The work in the exhibition was photographed and recorded in Cashiers, North Carolina in the summer and fall of 2006.
Splitting wood is a central motif in the exhibition. A cord of wood will occupy the center of the gallery, and will be shown with a video projection of the artist splitting logs in the North Carolina woods. Splitting wood, and the logs themselves, refer to work and the material uses we have for the forest.
The other unifying motif in the exhibition centers on leisure, and the use of the forest, mountains and rivers for aesthetic ends. There are two large panoramas. One depicts swimmers at Quarry Falls, on the Cullasaja River, and the other shows players and spectators at a tennis match at a mountain country club.
The idea of Nature, as we currently engage with it, has deep roots in Romanticism. Romantic ideals and modes of image making are often unconsciously used and consumed, and drive tourism and construction in the scenic countryside. I am interested in making work which draws on the imagistic tradition to make useful observations about our moment in history.
Anderson Wrangle earned a B.A. in English and Studio Art in 1993 from The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; and a MFA in Photography in 2001 from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Recent group exhibitions include “Silver: 25th Anniverserary Retrospective Exhibition”, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas (2006); “Photography in Houston Galleries”, FotoFest, Houston, Texas (2005); and “Home and Garden: 8 Texas Artists”, FotoFest, Houston, Texas (2004). Solo shows include Rudolph Projects/ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas (2006); “Open House, Anderson Wrangle”, Negative Space, Houston, Texas (2004); and “Notes Toward Paranoia, Northlight Gallery”, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (2003). Anderson Wrangle is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor & Co-Area Coordinator for the Photography and Digital Media department of the University of Houston School of Art.
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Untitled Landscape Device - HEDGE
Perpetual Motion | Mark Schatz | Jan 26 - March 03
Sculpture Garden, Project Studio
For the last five years my work has been revolving around the issue of identity, particularly a suburban American identity, using processes rooted in the idea of fabrication. Fabrication as a concept conveys pragmatic connotations of making and constructing but it also carries undercurrents of deception, delusion, and utopian fantasy. Broadly, the product of fabrication is our built environment. When this environment is interrupted, fragmented, and rearranged, we can begin to ask questions about how these metaphors operate and how they reflect on our selves.
Like many American families, mine moved often in pursuit of better education, better jobs, and better neighborhoods. I continue to move frequently with my family as an adult and we make and remake our lives, again and again. As my identity and relationship to place is constantly displaced I am redefined, reinstated, and recontextualized in new places that are already familiar in their newness. In this work I alternately draw from, respond to, and subvert the devices of place-making that structure these built environments.
Mark Schatz received a BFA in Sculpture in 1998 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and a MFA in Sculpture in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin. Selected group shows include “The Way we Were”, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX (2006); “Umlauf Sculpture Award Exhibition”, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, TX (2005); and solo exhibitions include “Persistence of the Box” at the New Gallery in Austin, TX (2004); and “Mark Schatz” at Cactus Bra in San Antonio, TX (2002). In 2005, Schatz received both the Texas Exes Teaching Award from the University of Texas Alumni Association and the Umlauf Sculpture Award, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. He is currently an instructor Glassel School of Art, Houston teaching Advanced Drawing, 3-D Design, and Sculpture.
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Taxation for Individual Artists
Michelle Stanton | January 30, 2007 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Lawndale Art Center
In association with TALA
Michele Stanton, CPA, has been a longtime supporter of Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts as a volunteer providing pro bono services to non-profit organizations and individual artists, as well as the author of the TALA publication "Taxation of the Visual and Performing Artist." Her program will assist the individual artist to understand and navigate the intricacies of the tax code in terms that they will understand.
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Empty Bowls Houston | March 03, 2007
11 AM - 4 PM
Lawndale Art Center &
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
$25 donation
For tickets go to www.emptybowlshouston.org
Empty Bowls Houston is a unique lunch event and fundraiser that brings together the arts and crafts community to fight hunger in our area. For a minimum $25 donation, guests enjoy a simple lunch and select a bowl from hundreds of one-of-a-kind; hand-crafted bowls donated by Houston area ceramicists and craft artists. The event will be held again this year at two neighboring facilities: the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft at 4848 Main Street, and the Lawndale Art Center at 4912 Main Street.
In the first two years of the event, Empty Bowls Houston raised more than $41,000 for the Houston Food Bank and is a collaboration of Houston area ceramicists, woodturners and other craft artists, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Lawndale Art Center.
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Opening Reception | Friday, March 09 | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Artist Talk at 6:00PM
April 11, 2007 at 6:30pm
Gallery Talk with Jon Rubin, Co-curator
of Never Been to Houston
Working It Out | Studio Program Residents
March 09 - April 14
John M. O'Quinn Gallery
Dawolu Jabari Anderson exhibits three separate new bodies of work that he is currently developing, the Buffalo Soldier series, the Children’s Read-A-Long Story Books and the Zebra series. In his large scale drawings, Anderson connects the perception of the past with the reality of the present through elaborate narrative structures rendered in paint-marker, charcoal, baked cocoa and cosmetic make-up on paper.
Dawolu Jabari Anderson was recently included in the "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY (2006) and has shown work in other group shows such as "Who Goliards? Artists at the Turn of the Century", The University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX (2004); and "Symerical Patterns of Def", collaborative project as a member of Otebenga Jones, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2004). Otebenga Jones was also exhibited at the 2006 "Whitney Biennial."
Donna Huanca will simulcast a performance from Susan Inglett Gallery in New York's Chelsea District. The installation will evolve while on view at Lawndale Art Center through April 14th, 2007. And on March 22nd, 2007, during the opening in New York of Philosophy of the World, any viewer of the installation at Lawndale Art Center in Houston will be recorded and simulcast as a live projection in New York. This projection will remain on view in New York through April 21, 2007.
Collaborating with Houston's largest army surplus store, Top Brass Army Surplus, Donna Huanca will also perform and curate sound during an hour long radio show on WPS1 Radio in New York. This will be added to the installation in Houston via a live feed.
Born in Chicago to Bolivian parents, Donna Huanca now lives and works in Houston. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Houston in 2004. Solo exhibitions and projects include "Remitting Sound Back into the Woods", Skowhegan, Maine (2006); "Warscapes" at Plush, Dallas, TX (2005); and "Forty Foot WARSCAPE" at Richland College in Dallas, TX (2005). Donna has been included in group exhibitions such as "Manic and Wasted" at Swing Space in New York, NY (2006); "Sugarcoated" at Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (2006); and "Culture and Conflict" as part of "imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA (2006).
Stephanie Saint Sanchez, of La Chicana Laundry Pictures, presents, Cartoon Showtimes (The Short Cycle), in a viewing room within the John M. O’Quinn Gallery. LCLP (La Chicana Laundry Pictures) gives you classics like Mexican Suitcase and Un Plato Mas, as well as newer goodies like the animated Little Alberta and the Ridiculous Concept and a hot preview for upcoming uber-action feature Enrique the Fifth. It’s the fun and excitement of the movies without the sticky floor!
Stephanie Saint Sanchez was raised in the small town of Beaumont Texas where her imagination was encouraged and thrived. As founder of La Chicana Laundry Pictures she has written, produced and directed over 16 genre splitting shorts based on the images, sounds and psychosis's in her surroundings both real and Imagined. Arty-pants wise her video, "Mrs. Pickel's Third Grade Class" was included in Lawndale Art Center's recent exhibition, "Impossible Exchange" (2006) and she has also crossed over into multimedia installations like "Dolls House" and art car creations, the "Video Washing Machine" and the "La Loteria truck." ( 2006)
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Never Been To Houston | Curated by The Aurora
Picture Show and Jon Rubin
March 09 - April 14
Mezzanine Gallery
Imagine a city that you've only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that exists only through rumors, stories, novels, the nightly news, magazines, movies and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as firsthand research material, invited worldwide contributors-who have Never Been to Houston- will photographically document (without leaving home) what they imagine Houston to look like. Contributors will upload their photos daily to an on-line Flickr site, which will be projected as a slideshow in Houston's Lawndale gallery. Anything that anyone might take a photograph of is fair game. Just as long as it feels like Houston.
For the contributors to this exhibition, the task is to search through their daily life for clues to a foreign place, for the possibility that somewhere else exists right under their nose and that, like some clunky form of astral projection, you can travel to other lands without leaving home. For viewers in Houston, it's a chance to witness an unusual mirroring of their globally projected image. In addition to the traditions of storytelling and travel guides, new information technologies are expanding the possibility of knowing a place to which you've never traveled. Three-dimensional electronic maps, 360 degree images, hosts of amateur and commercial websites and podcasts about a given city, its economy, demographics, culture and subculture have opened the way for a new vernacular of representation.
In the end, Never Been to Houston is an experimental, virtual travelogue to the city that the New York Times opines "refuses to assume a simply identity."
Jon Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the social dynamics of public spaces and the lives of ordinary individuals. He has exhibited video, drawings, installations and public projects internationally including at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; The Rooseum, Sweden; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany; Nemo Film Festival, Paris and The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. He has received numerous national public art commissions, fellowships, residencies and awards.
Andrea Grover is the co-founder and director of Aurora Picture Show, a non-profit center for film, video and new media housed in a 1924 church building at 800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX. Grover dedicates her time to curating, promoting and writing about artist made film and video works. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995), a BFA from Syracuse University (1992), and was a Core Fellow in residence at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1995-97).
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Improving the Ground Game | Daniel Adame
March 09 - April 14
Grace R. Cavnar Gallery
In Improving the Ground Game Daniel Adame uses his body as an art tool to record traces of his movements throughout the gallery. He has constructed a series of ramps that function as pathways for him to run on the walls of the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery. The action will take place prior to the opening reception, while he is installing the work in the gallery. The process by which the walls are scuffed and marked on will be documented and on view.
Daniel Adame was born in Houston, Texas. Shortly after, his family moved to Colombia, then Malaysia, New Orleans and finally back to Houston. Daniel followed his interest in art to college where he earned a BFA in sculpture in 2003 at the Univeristy of Houston (Houston, TX). In 2000 he began working with Suchu Dance, where he remained a member until 2005. Daniel's work is typically directly linked to the human body and the situation of working with what is in his immediate environment.
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in our garden | Janice Weeks
March 09 - April 14
Third Floor Hallway
in our garden contains both botanical and human qualities and is symbolic of organic transformation. Drawing upon Eastern and Western notions of space and ornament, the installation is informed by traditional Chinese paper cutting and Art Nouveau architecture; an artery-like outgrowth of red velvet within a flock-like wallpapered space.
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tape10 | Rebecca Ward
March 09 - April 14
Project Space
Rebecca Ward's site specific installations respond to the existing lines, beams, and angles of a site using strands of colored tape. The tape adheres to the structural elements of a site and then expands outward to become three-dimensional patterns of color and texture that change as the viewer moves around the space.
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Gallery Talk | Jon Rubin
April 11, 2007
starting at 6:30pm
Lawndale Art Center
Jon Rubin, Co-Curator of Never Been to Houston comes to Lawndale Art Center to talk about his work and process behind the exhibition.
Jon Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the social dynamics of public spaces and the lives of ordinary individuals. He has exhibited video, drawings, installations and public projects internationally including at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; The Rooseum, Sweden; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany; Nemo Film Festival, Paris and The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. He has received numerous national public art commissions, fellowships, residencies and awards.
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Collaboration Among the Arts Student Final Projects |
Covering Ground and Collective Playground
Project Space & Room 317
Sunday April 22, 2007
5-8pm
On view through April 29, 2007
Covering Ground is a response to the urban landscape. The group is planting flower gardens in vacant lots and unused space throughout the city. Although this project is ongoing, they will present their accumulated experience in this pubic exhibition. See more about this project at: www.projectcoveringground.blogspot.com
Artist Collaborators: Joel Hughes, Emily Sloan and Eric Todd.
Faculty Advisor: Mary Magsamen
Collective Playground is a multi-media installation that explores childhood memory as fable through the juxtaposition of organic and inorganic materials. the shared experiences of the artists and the metaphors of the collective life cycle – death, rebirth, metamorphosis — are designed to provoke the viewer to confront the distortion of their own memories through time, subjective perspectives, and emotional attachments.
Artist Collaborators: Noora Alsalman, Norberto Gomez Jr. and Stacey Higdon.
Faculty Advisor: Michael Remson
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Bringing Light to Modern Design | Pablo Pardo
Design Within Reach 1956 West Gray
Wednesday April 25, 2007
starting at 7 pm
Designer Pablo Pardo is best known for his deceptively simple, well-crafted lighting designs. Lawndale Art Center and DWR are pleased to present an evening with Pardo at the Houston Studio. As the guest lecturer for the 20th Century Modern Market event, Pardo will give a lecture on his approach and the process of his work. Join us in welcoming Pablo Pardo to the Houston area; the mastermind behind many of DWR’s unique lighting. Bombay Sapphire cocktails will be provided by Bacardi and wine will be available courtesy of Oporto's café and Christopher's Fine Wines. DJ Nathan Smith will be spinning house music.
Lecture will be heald at Design Within Reach, 1956 West Gray
RSVP to houston@dwr.com by April 23.
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20th Century Modern Market |
April 27 - 29, 2007
Lawndale Art Center
Preview Party
Friday April 27, 2007 from 6-9pm
Admission: $40 per person
$30 for Lawndale Members at the Friend level and above
guarantees admission throughout the weekend.
Shop early for the best in Mid-Century Modern design at Lawndale Art Center's 12th Annual 20th Century Modern Market. Sip on cool libations and nibble on tasty treats amongst the finest selection of furniture, accessories, clothing, jewelry, rugs and art. It's definitely the coolest Preview Party in the post Atomic-Age. You won't want to miss this chance to pick-up your next treasure.
Market Weekend
Saturday and Sunday April 28 and 29, 2007
from 10am-5pm
$5 General Admission
The best selection of Mid-Century Modern design all under one roof!........More Info
We need volunteers for the Preview Party and Market Days! Be a part of our rat pack and get in on the hottest gig in town. Click here to volunteer for these events.
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The Hunters and the Hunted | Donna Huanca
Thursday, May 10, 4 - 7 pm
Friday, May 11, 12 - 4 pm
Project Space
Free Workshop!
Walk-ins welcome.
Fabric and clothing donations encouraged. Lawndale will supply the other materials. Adults and Children over 10 welcome. (scissors and glue guns will be used).
Join Lawndale Studio Resident Donna Huanca as she creates a fabric collage mural in the Lawndale Project Space. Work along with Donna and learn concepts and skills such as conceptualizing vertically and in large-scale, as well as using fabric as a medium to communicate color and texture.
Bring friends, family and your old blankets, towels, clothing and contribute to this community mural project.
Donna explores her family's history through recreating found photos from her father's service in the military and the jungles of South America.
She will host two workshops where the public is welcome to assist her in the creation of these large-scale murals "painted" in fabric.
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Snapshot: Houston Design on View 2007 | Rice Design Alliance
May 18 - June 16, 2007
O'Quinn, Cavnar and Mezzanine Galleries
Preview Party on May 17, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
$25 per person. Reservations accepted through May 15. Please call RDA at 713-348-4876
The Rice Design Alliance (RDA), in collaboration with Lawndale Art Center, invites Houston design professionals to participate in Snapshot: Houston Design on View 2007. This open-call exhibition, which will run at Lawndale from May 18 to June 16, 2007, provides an opportunity for the public to view the wide variety of realized and unrealized projects being designed in Houston. This is the fifth architecture exhibition co-sponsored by RDA and Lawndale Art Center.
Snapshot '07 makes Houston design the focus of critical inquiry, public discussion, and debate. With the exception of entry size, no restrictions will be imposed on the registered entries. In an open forum such as this, Houston can be appreciated as a working architectural and metropolitan organism.
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