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	Archives 2008: July - December
On View Coming Up 20th Century Modern Market The Big Show Day of the Dead Dia de los Muertos Archives Jan-June 05 July-Dec 05 Jan-June 06 July-Dec 06 Jan-June 07 July-Dec 07 Jan-June 08 July-Dec 08 Jan-June 09	The Big Show \| 2008 July 11 - August 9, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, July 11, 2008, 6:30-8:30 pm The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the show’s conception in 1984. The Big Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress Association, at Lawndale’s original location. This year Lawndale received an astounding 1,014 submissions by 407 artists. Guest Juror Aram Moshayedi, Curator for LA><ART in Los Angeles, selected 95 works by 60 artists for this year’s exhibition. Click here for more information... [ back to top ]
	Art Installation Workshop Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 6:30 - 7:30 pm John M. O'Quinn Gallery Terry Andrews will lead a free workshop on installing artwork in a gallery setting. Topics discussed will include proper handling, measuring and centering and typical hardware for a variety of hanging situations. This workshop will provide participants the knowledge they need to hang their own work at home or in a gallery setting. Individuals interested in volunteering to install work selected for The Big Show are encouraged to attend. [ back to top ]
	The Big Slide Show Wednesday & Thursday, July 30 & 31, 2008 Project Space Please join Lawndale and Houston's talented Big Show artists for short, informal presentations about their work. Presentations start at 7:00 PM each night at Lawndale Art Center. Click here for more information... [ back to top ]
	August 22 – September 27, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, August 22, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM Artist talks at 6:00 PM Transcendental Smoothie \| Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand August 22 – September 27, 2008 John M. O'Quinn Gallery • Psychedelic Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich store front facades • Magical bottled water crystal palaces • Strange Star Trek space anomaly looking pictures of our kids! Transcendental Smoothie is a video installation by the collaborative husband and wife team of Magsamen + Hillerbrand. Through a playful and unexpected use of materials and camera viewpoints, Magsamen + Hillerbrand transform the John M. O'Quinn Gallery into a kaleidoscope world of cookie dough, vultures and monumental peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that bring questions and ideas of perception, identity, family and everyday pressures. “Transcendental” refers to Kant’s theory that our experience of things is about how they appear to us, but not about those things as they are in and of themselves. “Smoothie” refers to our use of food and everyday objects and the blending of many items to make something delicious. [ back to top ]
	What's in a Line? \| Judith Cottrell and Alex Lopez August 22 – September 27, 2008 Mezzanine Gallery Alex Lopez and Judith Cottrell approach their exhibition with a simple question, what is the purpose of a gallery? The purpose of a “gallery” is considered by many as a place to exhibit works of art. Their answers lead them to examine the gallery as a finite area of space with interesting, challenging and complex architectural situations. “Would the gallery space be defined by the work or would we propose the question that perhaps the space itself could be the artwork?” Through an investigation and visual documentation of the Mezzanine Gallery they were able to determine that the space was in fact the challenge and “line of sight”, or point of perspective, would be one of their primary focuses. Their exhibition will combine independent and collaborative sculptural drawings that involve an investigation of methodology, approach, and comment on how line and space can be articulated, integrated, viewed, and accessed. Through installation and various media, Cottrell and Lopez challenge the modes of traditional genres with a new consideration for line. [ back to top ]
	The Grand Tour, Texas \| Omar Vera August 22 – September 27, 2008 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Inspired by the ‘Grand Tour’ collections of Europe, Vera’s The Grand Tour, Texas is a grouping of charcoal and ink drawings and terracotta maquettes executed on site in the small and somewhat obscure Texas cities that take their names from iconic European meccas: Paris (311 miles from Houston), Florence (197 miles from Houston), and Roma (383 miles from Houston). The subject of these studies is the architecture, public artwork, and other local symbols whose role it is to fill the hopelessly large art-historical shoes of their namesakes. “Despite the implicit cynicism in undertaking this project, I have found that there is a tangible sincerity in the act of traveling to and venerating these locales not usually ennobled by the rhetoric of ‘The Grand Tour’, “explains Vera. [ back to top ]
	(Re)Vision: A Preservation of Houston’s Inner Loop \| Shannon Duncan August 22 – September 27, 2008 Project Space Shannon Duncan has a compulsion to collect and photograph discarded and otherwise overlooked objects, reviving their once precious nature by excessively archiving and/or documenting what she finds. For her installation in the Project Space, Duncan extends her interest in abandoned property to include real estate. Between January 1st, 2008 and June 30th, 2008, Duncan synced her life in tandem with the City of Houston’s on-line permits website, then visited residential properties scheduled for demolition within the inner loop. She captured these fugitive places using (the now discontinued) Polaroid film, and retrieved what personal items she found on site. (Re)Vision encapsulates her six-month project, with the collection of images gridded off by zip code and accompanied by selected found objects. http://www.communitywalk.com/revisionhouston [ back to top ]
	Lewis & Maese Auction Company Fall Auction Preview September 23, 2008 6:30 - 8:30 PM Lewis & Maese Auction Company 2301 Sabine Street 713.880.0891 www.lmauctionco.com Tx. Lic. Randolph Holford #6324 Please join David Lewis, Ernest Maese and Lynn Swanson of Lewis & Maese Auction Company and Anita Garten, Chairman of the Board, Lawndale Art Center for cocktails and music to preview the Fall Auction and benefit Lawndale Art Center. The September 24 and 25 Fall Auctions feature pieces from the collection of the late Ambassador Kenneth Franzheim II and furnishings from the River Oaks home of Lynn Wyatt. Valet parking and security provided during party and auctions. [ back to top ]
	Bayou City Arts Festival Downtown \| October 16 - 19, 2008 10 AM - 6 PM As a Non-Profit Partner of the Art Colony Association, Lawndale Art Center hosts a booth in the Creative Zone of the Bayou city Art Festival. Lawndale Art Center’s booth offers a fun and easy art activity for children visiting the festival...More [ back to top ]
	Día de los Muertos \| October 20 - November 8, 2008 Lawndale Art Center is pleased to present its 21st Annual Día de los Muertos series of programs, a celebration of the art, music and practices of Mexico. Lawndale invites Texas artists to create their own interpretation of the traditional tin devotional painting practice in Mexico known as the retablo in this exhibition ...More [ back to top ]
	Matagorda Island Norther and Storm Fishing \| Roy Cullen November 20 – 29, 2008 Opening Reception Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:30-7:30 PM Meredith Long & Company 2323 San Felipe Houston, TX 77019 713-523-6671 Proceeds from the sales of the photography in the exhibition will benefit Lawndale Art Center. [ back to top ]
	November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Opening Reception Friday, November 21, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM Artist talks at 6:00 PM Pleasing Punch \| AJ Liberto and Jesse Robinson November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 John M. O'Quinn Gallery They discovered that a smaller diameter cyclone gives greater centrifugal force. So they developed a way of getting 45% more suction than a Dual Cyclone vacuum and removing more dust, by dividing the air into 8 smaller cyclones. Cyclones appear, sealed within the vacuum. Something contained and yet terrifying, a collection of stuff thrust into this space. Pleasing Punch is just such a space. Celebration and violence are hard to tell apart in both Liberto and Robinson's endeavors. Their work realizes the gravitational force of objects, that link that holds together and creates disastrous collisions, despair, and ultimately a drifting blissful calm. [ back to top ]
	Personal Panopticon \| Cory Wagner November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Mezzanine Gallery Using the concept of the panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century prison design, the artist investigates how we are socially trained to look at ourselves with an ever gazing hyper-critical eye. Wagner transforms the gallery into a winding passageway populated with mirrors, sounds and activity producing a distorted sense of reflection. [ back to top ]
	Once Removed \| Ann Marie Nafziger November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Once Removed presents an artificially skewed version of the natural environment, captured in the midst of chaotic expansion and collapse. Replacing any sense of direct apprehension of the natural world in favor of a messy abundance of representations, the installation reflects the predicament of being disconnected physically from the world while being bombarded with mediated information about it. Executed on a variety of surfaces, including the gallery walls, and exploiting a range of materials and tools, the installation imagines phenomena and field samples from a constructed, one-off manifestation of a world in a state of flux. [ back to top ]
	Flowback \| Mequitta Ahuja November 8, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Project Space Mequitta Ahuja is of mixed ethnic origin, South Asian and African American. Her works are self-portraits. Mequitta’s visual explorations include the interplay of figure and ground, the symbolic significance of blackness, and the social implications of Black hair. In response to the history of Black hair as a barometer of social and personal consciousness, she makes the image of hair both corporeal and conceptual, giving it psychic proportions. With medium and image, Mequitta proposes that identity, including racial and sexual identities, although narrowly defined by social norms, is both fluid and plural. Mequitta’s works demonstrate female self-invention through the deployment of her own tools, including, her creative imagination. [ back to top ]
	To Whom It May Concern \| Emily Sloan November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Studio Residency A recent focus of Emily Sloan's work is the idea of making a thing, phrase or place "special." For the Mitchell Center's Fall 2008 Lawndale Studio Residency, Sloan compiled a list of words and phrases that will be created in site-appropriate places throughout the city of Houston. Selected words and phrases will be stenciled in locations with materials collected from the area thus serving as enviromental interventions and messages for those who stumble across them. [ back to top ]
	NIMBY \| Kevin Curry November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Lawndale Studio Artist, 300A Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden NIMBY is constructed from discarded fence boards, posts and rails that previously recorded boundaries of ownership as well as an ability to shut out the outside world. This structure uses the detritus of post -Ike Houston to address the fragility of safety and comfort in an era of increased homelessness, foreclosures and personal calamity. [ back to top ]
	Galveston Arts Center Fundraiser Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:30 – 7:30 PM A “pass the hat” fundraising event will be held at Lawndale Art Center in Houston on Thursday, December 11, 2008, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The event will be hosted by the Art Guys (artists Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth) and will be free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Galveston Arts Center at 281.888.9770, or email information@galvestonartscenter.org. Galveston Arts Center Press Release [ back to top ]



	Archives 2008: July - December
On View Coming Up 20th Century Modern Market The Big Show Day of the Dead Dia de los Muertos Archives Jan-June 05 July-Dec 05 Jan-June 06 July-Dec 06 Jan-June 07 July-Dec 07 Jan-June 08 July-Dec 08 Jan-June 09	The Big Show \| 2008 July 11 - August 9, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, July 11, 2008, 6:30-8:30 pm The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the show’s conception in 1984. The Big Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress Association, at Lawndale’s original location. This year Lawndale received an astounding 1,014 submissions by 407 artists. Guest Juror Aram Moshayedi, Curator for LA><ART in Los Angeles, selected 95 works by 60 artists for this year’s exhibition. Click here for more information... [ back to top ]
	Art Installation Workshop Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 6:30 - 7:30 pm John M. O'Quinn Gallery Terry Andrews will lead a free workshop on installing artwork in a gallery setting. Topics discussed will include proper handling, measuring and centering and typical hardware for a variety of hanging situations. This workshop will provide participants the knowledge they need to hang their own work at home or in a gallery setting. Individuals interested in volunteering to install work selected for The Big Show are encouraged to attend. [ back to top ]
	The Big Slide Show Wednesday & Thursday, July 30 & 31, 2008 Project Space Please join Lawndale and Houston's talented Big Show artists for short, informal presentations about their work. Presentations start at 7:00 PM each night at Lawndale Art Center. Click here for more information... [ back to top ]
	August 22 – September 27, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, August 22, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM Artist talks at 6:00 PM Transcendental Smoothie \| Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand August 22 – September 27, 2008 John M. O'Quinn Gallery • Psychedelic Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich store front facades • Magical bottled water crystal palaces • Strange Star Trek space anomaly looking pictures of our kids! Transcendental Smoothie is a video installation by the collaborative husband and wife team of Magsamen + Hillerbrand. Through a playful and unexpected use of materials and camera viewpoints, Magsamen + Hillerbrand transform the John M. O'Quinn Gallery into a kaleidoscope world of cookie dough, vultures and monumental peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that bring questions and ideas of perception, identity, family and everyday pressures. “Transcendental” refers to Kant’s theory that our experience of things is about how they appear to us, but not about those things as they are in and of themselves. “Smoothie” refers to our use of food and everyday objects and the blending of many items to make something delicious. [ back to top ]
	What's in a Line? \| Judith Cottrell and Alex Lopez August 22 – September 27, 2008 Mezzanine Gallery Alex Lopez and Judith Cottrell approach their exhibition with a simple question, what is the purpose of a gallery? The purpose of a “gallery” is considered by many as a place to exhibit works of art. Their answers lead them to examine the gallery as a finite area of space with interesting, challenging and complex architectural situations. “Would the gallery space be defined by the work or would we propose the question that perhaps the space itself could be the artwork?” Through an investigation and visual documentation of the Mezzanine Gallery they were able to determine that the space was in fact the challenge and “line of sight”, or point of perspective, would be one of their primary focuses. Their exhibition will combine independent and collaborative sculptural drawings that involve an investigation of methodology, approach, and comment on how line and space can be articulated, integrated, viewed, and accessed. Through installation and various media, Cottrell and Lopez challenge the modes of traditional genres with a new consideration for line. [ back to top ]
	The Grand Tour, Texas \| Omar Vera August 22 – September 27, 2008 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Inspired by the ‘Grand Tour’ collections of Europe, Vera’s The Grand Tour, Texas is a grouping of charcoal and ink drawings and terracotta maquettes executed on site in the small and somewhat obscure Texas cities that take their names from iconic European meccas: Paris (311 miles from Houston), Florence (197 miles from Houston), and Roma (383 miles from Houston). The subject of these studies is the architecture, public artwork, and other local symbols whose role it is to fill the hopelessly large art-historical shoes of their namesakes. “Despite the implicit cynicism in undertaking this project, I have found that there is a tangible sincerity in the act of traveling to and venerating these locales not usually ennobled by the rhetoric of ‘The Grand Tour’, “explains Vera. [ back to top ]
	(Re)Vision: A Preservation of Houston’s Inner Loop \| Shannon Duncan August 22 – September 27, 2008 Project Space Shannon Duncan has a compulsion to collect and photograph discarded and otherwise overlooked objects, reviving their once precious nature by excessively archiving and/or documenting what she finds. For her installation in the Project Space, Duncan extends her interest in abandoned property to include real estate. Between January 1st, 2008 and June 30th, 2008, Duncan synced her life in tandem with the City of Houston’s on-line permits website, then visited residential properties scheduled for demolition within the inner loop. She captured these fugitive places using (the now discontinued) Polaroid film, and retrieved what personal items she found on site. (Re)Vision encapsulates her six-month project, with the collection of images gridded off by zip code and accompanied by selected found objects. http://www.communitywalk.com/revisionhouston [ back to top ]
	Lewis & Maese Auction Company Fall Auction Preview September 23, 2008 6:30 - 8:30 PM Lewis & Maese Auction Company 2301 Sabine Street 713.880.0891 www.lmauctionco.com Tx. Lic. Randolph Holford #6324 Please join David Lewis, Ernest Maese and Lynn Swanson of Lewis & Maese Auction Company and Anita Garten, Chairman of the Board, Lawndale Art Center for cocktails and music to preview the Fall Auction and benefit Lawndale Art Center. The September 24 and 25 Fall Auctions feature pieces from the collection of the late Ambassador Kenneth Franzheim II and furnishings from the River Oaks home of Lynn Wyatt. Valet parking and security provided during party and auctions. [ back to top ]
	Bayou City Arts Festival Downtown \| October 16 - 19, 2008 10 AM - 6 PM As a Non-Profit Partner of the Art Colony Association, Lawndale Art Center hosts a booth in the Creative Zone of the Bayou city Art Festival. Lawndale Art Center’s booth offers a fun and easy art activity for children visiting the festival...More [ back to top ]
	Día de los Muertos \| October 20 - November 8, 2008 Lawndale Art Center is pleased to present its 21st Annual Día de los Muertos series of programs, a celebration of the art, music and practices of Mexico. Lawndale invites Texas artists to create their own interpretation of the traditional tin devotional painting practice in Mexico known as the retablo in this exhibition ...More [ back to top ]
	Matagorda Island Norther and Storm Fishing \| Roy Cullen November 20 – 29, 2008 Opening Reception Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:30-7:30 PM Meredith Long & Company 2323 San Felipe Houston, TX 77019 713-523-6671 Proceeds from the sales of the photography in the exhibition will benefit Lawndale Art Center. [ back to top ]
	November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Opening Reception Friday, November 21, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM Artist talks at 6:00 PM Pleasing Punch \| AJ Liberto and Jesse Robinson November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 John M. O'Quinn Gallery They discovered that a smaller diameter cyclone gives greater centrifugal force. So they developed a way of getting 45% more suction than a Dual Cyclone vacuum and removing more dust, by dividing the air into 8 smaller cyclones. Cyclones appear, sealed within the vacuum. Something contained and yet terrifying, a collection of stuff thrust into this space. Pleasing Punch is just such a space. Celebration and violence are hard to tell apart in both Liberto and Robinson's endeavors. Their work realizes the gravitational force of objects, that link that holds together and creates disastrous collisions, despair, and ultimately a drifting blissful calm. [ back to top ]
	Personal Panopticon \| Cory Wagner November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Mezzanine Gallery Using the concept of the panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century prison design, the artist investigates how we are socially trained to look at ourselves with an ever gazing hyper-critical eye. Wagner transforms the gallery into a winding passageway populated with mirrors, sounds and activity producing a distorted sense of reflection. [ back to top ]
	Once Removed \| Ann Marie Nafziger November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Once Removed presents an artificially skewed version of the natural environment, captured in the midst of chaotic expansion and collapse. Replacing any sense of direct apprehension of the natural world in favor of a messy abundance of representations, the installation reflects the predicament of being disconnected physically from the world while being bombarded with mediated information about it. Executed on a variety of surfaces, including the gallery walls, and exploiting a range of materials and tools, the installation imagines phenomena and field samples from a constructed, one-off manifestation of a world in a state of flux. [ back to top ]
	Flowback \| Mequitta Ahuja November 8, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Project Space Mequitta Ahuja is of mixed ethnic origin, South Asian and African American. Her works are self-portraits. Mequitta’s visual explorations include the interplay of figure and ground, the symbolic significance of blackness, and the social implications of Black hair. In response to the history of Black hair as a barometer of social and personal consciousness, she makes the image of hair both corporeal and conceptual, giving it psychic proportions. With medium and image, Mequitta proposes that identity, including racial and sexual identities, although narrowly defined by social norms, is both fluid and plural. Mequitta’s works demonstrate female self-invention through the deployment of her own tools, including, her creative imagination. [ back to top ]
	To Whom It May Concern \| Emily Sloan November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Studio Residency A recent focus of Emily Sloan's work is the idea of making a thing, phrase or place "special." For the Mitchell Center's Fall 2008 Lawndale Studio Residency, Sloan compiled a list of words and phrases that will be created in site-appropriate places throughout the city of Houston. Selected words and phrases will be stenciled in locations with materials collected from the area thus serving as enviromental interventions and messages for those who stumble across them. [ back to top ]
	NIMBY \| Kevin Curry November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Lawndale Studio Artist, 300A Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden NIMBY is constructed from discarded fence boards, posts and rails that previously recorded boundaries of ownership as well as an ability to shut out the outside world. This structure uses the detritus of post -Ike Houston to address the fragility of safety and comfort in an era of increased homelessness, foreclosures and personal calamity. [ back to top ]
	Galveston Arts Center Fundraiser Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:30 – 7:30 PM A “pass the hat” fundraising event will be held at Lawndale Art Center in Houston on Thursday, December 11, 2008, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The event will be hosted by the Art Guys (artists Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth) and will be free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Galveston Arts Center at 281.888.9770, or email information@galvestonartscenter.org. Galveston Arts Center Press Release [ back to top ]