Studio Program Residents 2007

Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce the selection of three residents for the inaugural term of the Lawndale Studio Residency.

Dawolu Jabari Anderson
creates large scale drawings that juxtapose archaic aesthetics with contemporary narratives. Anderson’s work has been exhibited extensively including the 2006 Whitney Biennial both individually and as part of the Otabenga Jones collective.

Donna Huanca
creates sculpture and installation environments out of fabric swatches. Her work has been exhibited widely in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Buenos Aires. She is a graduate of the University of Houston and in 2006 attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Stephanie Saint Sanchez
is a film and video artist and the founder of La Chicana Laundry Pictures. Her work has been screened extensively both locally and nationally and received numerous awards. In 2005, she was the recipient of a CACHH emerging artist grant.

A jury consisting of Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, John Sparagana, Chicago based artist and Professor of Painting at Rice University and Margo Handwerker, Lawndale Programming Committee member and Curatorial Assistant at the MFAH met at Lawndale on Saturday December 2 and selected the three residents.

From a pool of almost eighty Houston area contemporary artists, the jury selected Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Donna Huanca and Stephanie Saint Sanchez to launch the program.

“We came away feeling really excited about the three artists we chose...” say John Sparagana. “...what the residency can do for each of them at this point in their work and career, and what kind of energy they will bring to Lawndale through their residency."

“It is very gratifying to watch this program come to fruition through the hard work and commitment of many individuals on our board and staff” according to William Betts, Interim Executive Director of Lawndale. “This program speaks strongly of Lawndale's core values and provides a unique and generous opportunity to Houston based artists”.

As part of the Studio Residency program, recipients will be provided studio space on the third floor of Lawndale’s Main Street facility, receive a $500 monthly stipend, a $1000 materials budget, and exhibition opportunities in the Lawndale galleries.

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Studio Program Residents 2007-2008

Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce the residents for the second year of the the Lawndale Studio Residency.

From a pool of almost sixty Houston area contemporary artists, the jury selected Danny Kerschen, Lynne McCabe and Teresa O'Connor to launch the program.

The term of the studio residency program is September 4, 2007 to May 30, 2008.

Danny Kerschen
was raised in Houston, Texas; graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine art from the University of Houston in 2001.


Danny Kerschen has been working collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged projects situated within the contradictions and critiques of culture; Danny Kerschen is interested exploring multi-disciplinary methods to derive work including guerilla installations, drawing, exploring the social dynamics of public and shared space, and distribution.

Although disciplines vary, themes recur including fiction and reality, play and progress, repetition and multiplicity, anonymity and solidarity, quotidian materials, absurd humor, and relations of parts to a whole.

Currently, Kerschen has been focused on producing graphite drawings on paper. Dreamlike, yet well defined; the drawings are quiet, subtly tonal, graphite images of asymetrical marching bands enveloped by the negatives space of the paper. The marching bands exist between regimented choreography and collective unraveling. Folly, idiosyncrasy, rebellion, and failure emerge as tender documentation of individuation. While meticulously rendered, the figures seem to drift away into the void of the paper with the gentleness of the gradation. http://www.dannykerschen.com/


Lynne McCabe
was born in Scotland and lives and works in Houston, TX. McCabe utilizes interactive performance and collaboration between artists and spectators in her exploration of interpersonal relationships. For the Lawndale Studio Artist Program, McCabe is producing a series of printed instructions for social sculpture to be displayed, progressively, in the third floor corridor, culminating in the final instructions being displayed in the O’Quinn gallery in May 2008 as part of the Studio Artist exhibition.

Lynne McCabe received her BA (Honors) Fine Art, Environmental Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1999. Select solo exhibitions include a series of three exhibitions titled pot•luck at Project Row Houses (2007), Commerce Street Artist Warehouse (2005) and Cactus Bra (2005), Houston, Texas; The Caledonian Institute for the Study of Interpersonal Relationships presents a series of intimate exchanges hosted by Lynne McCabe, Fotofest 2002, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas.; and behind closed doors, slide performance / installation, HCC TV Studio, Houston Texas. McCabe also served as Programming Committee Chair for Lawndale Art Center from 2004 to 2006.

http://www.alphabetical-order.co.uk/lynnemccabe/index.htm


Teresa O'Connor
is an installation artist that incorporates video, sound and found objects in a gesture to stimulate the duality of presence and absence, body and landscape. For the Lawndale Studio Artist Program, O'Connor is working with musicians "Sharks and Sailors" to create a music video, and from the music video she plans to extrapolate sound and collected imagery for her installation "The sound of you passing through" to be presented at Lawndale Art Center in May 2008.

Teresa O’Connor lives and works in Houston, TX. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Houston in 2002. Her solo exhibitions include (G)host, Three Walls, 2007, San Antonio, TX; A Ghost Story, Part I, Deborah Colton Gallery, 2006, Houston TX; and Character Introduction: The Forty Something Male Singer, 2005, Cactus Bra, San Antonio. O’Connor has also curated exhibitions for Polvo, Chicago, IL; Vine Street Studio, Houston, TX; Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, TX; and Plush Gallery, Houston, TX. O’Connor is proprietor of Hello-Lucky, a boutique specializing in artist designed/produced merchandise

www.hello-lucky.com

The three residents were selected by a panel of three arts professionals; J Hill, Claudia Schmuckli and Stephanie Saint Sanchez.

J Hill:
is the Head of the Sculpture Department at the Glassell School, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. Professor J Hill has an extensive exhibition record in venues such as The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Project Row Houses, Diverseworks Artspace Houston, Lawndale Art Center Houston, The Galveston Arts Center, Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon France, The Arlington Museum of Art, and William Campbell Contemporary Art Fort Worth. He has lectured at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and has received numerous grants, awards and honors including a Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Harris County Fellowship Award and the Artists Fellowship foundation grant. As an installation artist, Professor Hill’s work is socially based and uses language as a signifier of social context and structure. This has led him to explore the relationship between the Cherokee national anthem and the local vernacular of southern African-American neighborhoods.

Claudia Schmuckli:
joined Blaffer Gallery as Director of Public Relations and Membership in 2004 before being promoted to Curator in late 2007. A Swiss citizen, born in Japan and raised in Germany she comes to Houston via New York, where she was employed as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1999-2003, and as Curatorial Assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation from 1997-99. Claudia received her MA in Art History from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, in 1996 and holds a Licence degree in Art History from the University Toulouse Le Mirail, France.

Stephanie Saint Sanchez:
was an Artist in Residence during the first year of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program.  She is the Founder of La Chicana Laundry Pictures and has written, produced, and directed, over 20 genre-splitting, award winning shorts based on the images, sounds and psychosis's in her surroundings both real and imagined. As a multimedia artist she has received a Cultural Arts Council of Houston Emerging Artist Grant for the installation "Dolls House". A firm believer in showmanship, Stephanie also hosts yearly film events for the truly adventurous. Look out this October as she hosts The Lone Star States very first Latina Film Festival "Senorita Cinema".

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