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2007 STUDIO ARTISTS - Round 1
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 selected the three residents.
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The Lawndale Artist Studio Program is generously supported by:
The Cullen Foundation,
The National Endowment for the Arts,
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
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2007-2008 STUDIO ARTISTS - Round 2
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, Head of the Sculpture Department at the Glassell School, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Claudia Schmuckli, Curator for Blaffer Gallery and Stephanie Saint Sanchez, Lawndale Artist Studio Program alumna.
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2008-2009 STUDIO ARTISTS - Round 3
Kevin Curry received his MFA in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (2008) and his BFA in Graphic Communications from the Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (1983).
http://kcurry.com/
Amber Eagle recently relocated to Houston after ten years living in Mexico. Eagle received her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (1993) and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1988). Eagle was a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art from 1993-1995. Her art car, Our Lady of Transportation, was recently awarded the Mayor's Choice and Participants Choice awards in the
2008 Art Car Parade.
http://www.ambereagle.org/
El Franco Lee II received his BFA in Painting from the University of Houston (2007) and was a 2008 Artadia Awards recipient. His work
was included in Nexus Texas at the Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston in 2007.
http://www.elfrancosartchives.com
The three residents were selected by a panel of three arts professionals; Sylivie Fortin, Art Papers Editor-in-Chief, Francesca Fuchs, artist and Lawndale Programming Committee member and Dario Robleto, artist.
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Kevin Curry
Amber Eagle
El Franco Lee II
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2009-2010 STUDIO ARTISTS
Dawn Black was born in Louisiana where she received a BFA from Louisiana State University. She earned both MA and MFA, specializing in Painting and Sculpture, from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. In 2000 she spent the summer exploring Venice, Italy while making prints at Scoula di Graphica, a printmaking studio on the Grand Canal. She has had solo exhibitions at Curator’s Office, Washington DC; Kunstoffice, Berlin, Germany and Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at School 33, Baltimore, MD; Morehead State University, Morehead, KY; Florida State University Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL; Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX; Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA; Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA; Novato Art Center, Novato, CA; Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, NY; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA; Gallery 119, Chicago, IL; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA among others. Her work has been recently reviewed by the Washington Post, Art Papers magazine, and online at www.artinamerica.com and is in various private collections, notably the Zacharius collection. Her work is represented by Curator’s Office.
Nick Meriwether received his BFA in painting from the University of Houston in 2006. He is a multidisciplinary artist, whose primary mediums include drawing, sculpture, video and computer software. He works professionally as a photographer's assistant, an art instructor and a graphic designer. He is a member of the local drawing collective Sketch Klubb. During his residency at Lawndale, Meriwether plans on working with microcontrollers and interactive computing to create a new body of sculptural work.
David Waddell is a Houston based artist who creates other worlds through stop-motion animation, small sculptures, and collaged drawings. Lately, digital media has played a larger role in all of the work by combining the use of Flash, Final Cut, a scanner, in addition to photography. The iPod is utilized for viewer interaction with his modern day flipbooks that play out like a nature documentary. Tactility and the use of the hand are an important role throughout the work and the process. Waddell makes creatures, landscapes and houses with found objects and collage. After working on three consecutive collaborations, which include TaMarmaruga shown at Lawndale last season, the nature of his work has been affected in a positive manner. He is excited to work on his individual body of work which will include more experimentation with sound and further layering through the process of filmmaking. Waddell’s work has been included at Gavin Brown Enterprise, Lawndale Art Center, New York Fashion Week, Fotofest and Aurora Picture Show. He received his BFA from University of Texas and his MFA in painting from American University. Waddell is currently the Director of Media Studies at HSPVA.
The three residents were selected by a panel of three arts professionals; Bill Arning, Director, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Michael Guidry, Artist, Curator of the University of Houston Public Art Collection and Lawndale Programming Committee Chair; and Mary Magsamen, Artist and Curator for Aurora Picture Show.
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Dawn Black
Nick Meriwether
David Waddell
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